Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 22 Iran has denied allowing women to take part in this year’s presidential elections. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 22 An Iranian medical student was sentenced to two years prison time and 74 lashes by Iran’s Revolutionary Court on political charges, according to a state-run news agency. Reza Ashrafpour, a young man studying dentistry in Iran’s University of Medical Sciences had been charged with “acting against national security”, … Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 22 An Iranian medical student was sentenced to two years prison time and 74 lashes by Iran’s Revolutionary Court on political charges, according to a state-run news agency. Reza Ashrafpour, a young man studying dentistry in Iran’s University of Medical Sciences had been charged with “acting against national security”, … 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 22 Iran has denied allowing women to take part in this year’s presidential elections. This morning Reuters news agency reported that Iran’s legislative watchdog had said that women could run in June’s presidential election, clearing up an ambiguous article of the constitution. Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 22 Iran has denied allowing women to take part in this year’s presidential elections. This morning Reuters news agency reported that Iran’s legislative watchdog had said that women could run in June’s presidential election, clearing up an ambiguous article of the constitution. Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 22 Iran has denied allowing women to take part in this year’s presidential elections. This morning Reuters news agency reported that Iran’s legislative watchdog had said that women could run in June’s presidential election, clearing up an ambiguous article of the constitution. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 22 Iran has nearly 16,000 unemployed doctors and general practitioners, according to the head of Iran’s General Practitioners Association. “Nearly 16,000 graduated general practitioners are either unemployed or working in other professions throughout the country”, Hossein Hoveida said in an interview with a hardline state-run news agency. Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 22 Iran has nearly 16,000 unemployed doctors and general practitioners, according to the head of Iran’s General Practitioners Association. “Nearly 16,000 graduated general practitioners are either unemployed or working in other professions throughout the country”, Hossein Hoveida said in an interview with a hardline state-run news agency. 
Daily Telegraph – Leaders: We can be sloppy in our approach to foreign affairs. Because of their geographical and alphabetical proximity, we tend to bracket Iran and Iraq together. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 21 The father of an Iranian political prisoner who has been held without charge in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison said that his son was being kept in solitary confinement for the past three months despite government assurances that such practices were not being carried out. In an interview with the Prague-based Radio Farda the father of Saeid Massouri, a member of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, said yesterday that his son was transferred to a solitary cell in Evin prison just over three months ago, without any explanation as to why he was forced there. 
