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Iraqi police in stand-off with Iran camp residents

AFP: Hundreds of Iraqi police and soldiers were in a tense stand-off with residents of a camp housing Iran's main exiled opposition on Wednesday,...

Iraqi forces attack Iranian opposition camp

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 28 - Iraqi forces on Tuesday are attacking the base of the main Iranian opposition group situated north-west of Baghdad....

U.S. officials negotiated with Iraqi insurgent groups twice in spring

Washington Post: U.S. officials engaged in negotiations with Iraqi insurgent groups in two meetings this spring that culminated in an agreement to organize talks intended...

Iran threatens legal action over U.S. detentions

Reuters: Iran threatened the United States on Sunday with possible legal action for detaining five of its officials for up to 30 months in...

US releases 5 Iranian officials

AP: U.S. forces on Thursday released five Iranian officials who were detained in January 2007 in northern Iraq on suspicion of aiding Shiite Iraqi...

Iran shuts offices, cancels flights due dust from Iraq

Reuters: Iran closed many government offices and state firms and cancelled some flights on Tuesday because of wind-blown dust caused by sandstorms in neighbouring...

Iran eyes oil pipeline to Basra

UPI: Five Iranian companies have expressed interest in bidding on the construction of the Abadan-Basra pipeline to Iraq, Iranian officials say. United Press...

Iran’s hard line fuels Iraq attacks

Wall Street Journal: Some of the Iraqi Shiite extremist groups that the U.S. claims are backed by Iran say they are ratcheting up attacks in...

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Political Prisoner Fathollah Avari Executed in Hamedan

In the early hours of Tuesday, June 2, the death sentence of Fathollah Avari, one of the protesters who...

IRGC Attacks Kuwait and Bahrain, Hezbollah and Israel Clash

While in the early hours of Wednesday, June 3, local time, Kuwait reported intercepting missile and drone attacks, air...

Iranian Authorities Dismiss Professors, Harass Dismissed Faculty Members at University

On March 31, the state-run ILNA news agency published a report on the dismissal of university professors across the...

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Political Prisoner Zahra Shahbaz Tabari Has Once Again Been Sentenced to Death

Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a political prisoner held in Lakan...

US Imposes New Restrictions on Iranian Airlines

The Wall Street Journal, quoting U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott...

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