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The price paid for blogging Iran

BBC: Iran is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to keep an online diary. Web logs have become a popular forum for dissent. And the...

Hunger strike in Iran prison enters third week

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 17 - A hunger strike by seven political prisoners in Iran's Rajaii Shahr prison near Karaj (west of Tehran) has...

Appeal court confirms prison for cyber-dissident while blogger is reimprisoned

Reporters Without Borders: Condemning the imprisonment of two Iranian Internet users in the past 10 days, Reporters Without Borders said Iran was undergoing the...

Nobel prize winner accuses Iranian justice of obstruction

AFP: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi accused Iran's hardline judiciary on Monday of doing all it could to prevent human rights lawyers from...

Iran: Political Prisoners Held with Violent Criminals

Human Rights Watch: The confinement of political prisoners in Iran together with violent criminals endangers their lives, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights...

Mullahs tighten grip as US looks to Iran

Scotland on Sunday: SABRE-rattling by George W Bush against Iran as the world’s primary state sponsor of terrorism has given the mullahs who run...

Iran: woman sentenced to stoning, man to execution

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 04 – A Tehran court has sentenced a couple to death by stoning and hanging, according to the state-run daily...

Iran human rights record ‘to be loathed’ — Rice

AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped up Washington's verbal assault on Iran on Thursday, saying the hardline Islamic regime's treatment of its...

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Political Prisoner Denied Treatment in Greater Tehran Prison

The physical condition of Hamid Haj-Jafar Kashani, a political prisoner held in Tehran Great Prison, has reportedly become concerned...

Iran’s Regime Cuts Food Voucher Benefits Under ‘Overseas Resident’ Label

In its latest move against low-income segments of society, the Iranian regime has suspended food voucher benefits for a...

Canada Sanctions Five Political and Military Officials of the Iranian Regime

The Canadian government announced on Friday, August 14, that it had imposed sanctions on five military and political officials...

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Executive Deputy of Iranian Regime Army Commander: More than 75% of Our Missile Capability Remains Intact

Alireza Sheikh, executive deputy of the Iranian regime's army...

Oil Pollution Reaches the Shores of Persian Gulf

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Human Rights in Iran: February 2020 

By Jubin Katiraie At the start of each month, the Iran Human...