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In Brief: Iran hangs five in public

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 09 – Iranian authorities hanged five men in public in the southern town of Ravar, state media reported on...

Tehran City Council reappoints Mayor

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 09 – The Tehran City Council voted on Wednesday to reappoint a one-time Brigadier General in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...

Man sets self on fire outside Ahmadinejad’s office in Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 09 – A young man set himself on fire outside Iran’s Presidential Offices, the press office of Tehran’s Medical...

Photos: Iran cracks down on women for “un-Islamic” dress

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 09 – The following are photos of a government crackdown on violators of Iran’s strict Islamic dress code. The...

In Brief: Iran Parliament bans Al-Jazeera – report

Iran Focus: London, May 08 – Iran’s Majlis, or Parliament, has banned the prominent Arabic-language satellite channel al-Jazeera, an international press freedoms watchdog said...

Coalition targets “torture room” in Iraqi capital

Iran Focus: London, May 07 - The following is the text of a statement by the Coalition in Iraq regarding an attack by U.S.-led...

Protest erupts in Tehran’s Polytechnic University

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 06 – Students in Tehran’s Polytechnic University staged a protest on campus on Sunday, eye-witnesses told Iran Focus in...

In Brief: Iran FM to visit Norway, Sweden next week

Iran Focus: London, May 05 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will travel to Sweden and Norway to meet and hold talks with senior...

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Renewed Protests Erupt in Iran

In recent days, Iran has witnessed fundamental changes in the nature of popular protests. The movement has evolved from...

Rising Crime and Social Breakdown After 47 Years of Clerical Rule in Iran

While Iran's regime has spent much of its resources and capabilities over more than four decades suppressing opponents, silencing...

Seventy-Eight Nobel Laureates Urge UN Action Amid Rising Executions in Iran

A coalition of 78 Nobel Prize laureates has issued a joint appeal to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, calling...

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