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Rights group fears arrest of Iran “student blogger”

Iran Focus: London, May 31 – The international media freedoms watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Wednesday that it was “very worried” about the...

Prisoner hanged in volatile Iran province

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 31 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in a prison in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan which has been...

Rights group calls for release of two journalists held in Iran

Iran Focus: London, May 27 – The international press freedoms organisation Reporters Without Borders demanded on Saturday the “immediate release” of two Iranian Azeri...

Report: 54 Baha’is arrested in Iran

UPI: Iranian officials have released 54 Baha'is arrested in the city of Shiraz last week, the Baha'i International Community said Wednesday. NEW...

Amnesty International blasts Iran’s human rights violations

Iran Focus: London, May 23 – The international human rights organisation Amnesty International blasted human rights abuses in Iran in 2005 in its annual...

Four men, one woman hanged in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 22 – Four men and one woman were hanged in Iran, press reports said on Monday. Iran FocusTehran,...

Iran gets tough on the poor – photos (part 2)

Iran Focus: Tehran, May 17 – Despite a promise by hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before he took office to root out poverty and...

Iran gets tough on the poor – photos

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 17 – Despite a promise by hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before he took office to root out poverty...

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Renewed Protests Erupt in Iran

In recent days, Iran has witnessed fundamental changes in the nature of popular protests. The movement has evolved from...

Rising Crime and Social Breakdown After 47 Years of Clerical Rule in Iran

While Iran's regime has spent much of its resources and capabilities over more than four decades suppressing opponents, silencing...

Seventy-Eight Nobel Laureates Urge UN Action Amid Rising Executions in Iran

A coalition of 78 Nobel Prize laureates has issued a joint appeal to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, calling...

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European Union Sanctions Against Iran’s Regime and the Strait of Hormuz Crisis

In the latest development in the tense relations between...

Rationing and Sharp Increases in Bread Prices Across Iran

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