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Iran’s president names shadowy figure to fight crime

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 03 – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad handpicked an old-time colleague from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to head...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards take control of Oil Ministry

Iran Focus: London, Nov. 05 – The decision by Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to nominate a brigadier general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards...

Iran’s satellite channel blocked in U.S.

Iran Focus: London, Nov. 05 – Officials working in Iran’s state television and radio broadcasting corporation, IRIB, are anxiously seeking clarification for why one...

Clashes rock oil-rich Iran city

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 05 – Clashes between people and State Security Forces (SSF) in the oil-rich city of Ahwaz, south-western Iran, erupted...

Turkey’s Defence Minster wants ties with Iran reviewed

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – Turkey’s Defence Minister General Hilmi Özkök has called for a review of Ankara’s ties with Iran citing...

Annan cancels controversial trip to Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has cancelled his planned trip to Iran which was scheduled to...

Iran’s Supreme Leader defends 1979 U.S. embassy seizure

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a prayers ceremony in Tehran on Friday, which marks...

U.S. says Iran refuses to answer queries on President’s past

Iran Focus: London, Nov. 04 – The United States said on Thursday that Iran had refused to answer queries on the suspected role of...

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