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Report: Iran on pace for record year for capital punishment

Fox News: Iran has reportedly executed at least 183 people during the first six months of 2011, with reports of an additional 130 executions...

Iran jails prominent lawyer for 9 years

AP: Iran's hard-line judiciary has sentenced a prominent rights lawyer to nine years in jail and barred him from working as an attorney for...

EU names Iranian Guard commanders in Syria sanctions

Reuters: The European Union published extended sanctions on Syria on Friday, including the names of three commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard accused of supporting...

Lawmakers want U.N. rights auditor barred from Iran

Reuters: Iranian lawmakers urged the government on Sunday to prevent a U.N. investigator from coming to the country to look into allegations of human...

UN rights investigator on Iran named

Reuters: A former foreign minister of the Maldives, Ahmed Shaheed, was named United Nations human rights investigator on Iran on Friday, the first in...

“Dozens arrested” at service for Iran activist: report

Reuters: Dozens of people were arrested at a commemoration service Saturday for an Iranian activist who died at her father's funeral earlier in the...

EU deplores Iran’s execution of juvenile offenders

AFP: The EU's foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Friday condemned the public execution of juvenile offenders in Iran last week and urged Tehran...

Iran steps up rate of public executions: Amnesty

Reuters: Iran has sharply stepped up its use of public executions, hanging 13 men this year, nearly as many as in all of 2010,...

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Canadian Federal Court Rejects Salman Samani’s Request to Halt Deportation

The Federal Court of Canada has rejected Salman Samani's request to halt his deportation from Canada. Samani served as...

Middle Eastern Countries Seek Ways to Move Oil Through the Strait of Hormuz

An Iraqi government source told the Iraqi news outlet Shafagh News that Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) is...

Iran’s Regime Plans Fuel Rationing, Higher Gasoline Prices Within Next 15 Days

Esmail Saghab-Esfahani, a vice president of Iran's regime, said on Saturday, August 15, that Iran's daily gasoline consumption is...

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Advisor to IRGC Commander: Our Doctrine Has Changed from Defensive to Offensive

Mohammad-Reza Naqdi, adviser to the commander-in-chief of the Islamic...

Egypt And Bahrain Condemn Iranian Regime Attacks on Oil Tankers

In a statement, Bahrain's Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the...

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