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Iran’s former police chief becomes new Tehran mayor

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04 – Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, Iran’s former police chief and defeated presidential contender, was on Sunday appointed as the new...

Iran sets defiant tone on nuclear pursuit after IAEA report

Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 04 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday criticised the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, for issuing...

Iran sets defiant tone on nuclear pursuit after UN report

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday criticised the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, for...

Iran’s leader calls for greater “jihad” against Israel

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the jihad against Israel must continue and be strengthened, Iran’s...

Man hanged in Iran’s restive south-east

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04 – An Iranian man was hanged in the town of Iranshahr, in Iran’s south-eastern Baluchistan Province, a semi-official...

Iran police to step up crackdown on women

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04 – The commander of Iran’s State Security Forces in the city of Orumieh, northwest Iran, threatened on Sunday...

U.S. refuses visa to top Iran official

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry and senior officials reacted harshly to the decision by the United States not to...

In Tehran, a sombre crowd recalls Iran’s worst massacre

Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 03 – Some 2,000 people – families and friends of victims of one of the worst prison massacres in Iran’s...

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How Did Inflation in Iran Become the Most Chronic Structural Crisis?

More than 80 years after World War II, signs of collapse in Iran’s economy are reappearing with the same...

Repression and Human Rights Violations in Iran – April 2026

What distinguishes the pages of Iran’s history at the beginning of 2026 more than ever is the emergence of...

The 119th week of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign in 56 prisons

In the 119th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, political prisoners in 56 prisons across Iran once...

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Transfer of a death-row political prisoner to solitary confinement in Urmia, Iran

Punitive transfer of death-row political prisoner Mehrab Abdollahzadeh to...

UN Officials Call for a Halt to Executions and Repression in Iran

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