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Iran security forces kill youth at point blank, drag body in town

Iran Focus: Mahabad, Iran, Jul. 12 – Iran’s State Security Forces on Sunday opened fire at youths in the north-western volatile Kurdish town of...

Iran: University professors line up against campus destruction

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – More than 100 university lecturers yesterday took part in a gathering in Ahwaz Chamran University, southwest Iran,...

Iran: Assailants open fire on government official

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – A government official from the town of Chabahar (southeast Iran) was gunned down by unknown assailants in...

Rice: U.S. probing Iran leader’s role in embassy seizure

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jul. 11 – The United States continues its investigation into the role of ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 1979...

Iran declares new crackdown on women, “social vice”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 11 - With the arrival of a top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as the country’s new police chief,...

Attack on Rafsanjani signals rising strife in Iran theocracy

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 – The son of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was heard as saying back in April that “we...

Senior Iran cleric says fake ballots were used to elect Ahmadinejad

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 – In a poignant letter to Iran’s outgoing President Mohammad Khatami, Hojjatol-Islam Mehdi Karroubi accused “an autocratic political...

Iran news agency says Israel behind London and Iraq bombings

Iran Focus: Brussels, Jul. 10 – A news agency run by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that Israel was...

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Iran’s ‘No To Executions Tuesdays’ campaign Enters Its 128th Week

On Tuesday, July 7, the "No To Executions Tuesdays campaign" continued. The campaign, which was launched to end all...

Oil Tanker Attacked Near the Strait of Hormuz

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), a British maritime security monitoring organization, reported that an oil tanker sailing...

Arrested Iranian Protesters in Critical Conditions, Human Rights Bodies Warn

Iran Human Rights (IHR), a Norway-based human rights organization, on Monday, July 6, expressed concern over the growing wave...

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