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Iran to shut crude unit at largest refinery end-Oct

Reuters: Iran will shut a 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude unit at its largest refinery in Abadan sometime in end-October for routine maintenance,...

AFP’s Tehran deputy bureau chief told to leave Iran

AFP: AFP's deputy bureau chief in Tehran, Stuart Williams, was told Monday by Iranian authorities that he must leave the Islamic republic within days....

China’s June crude imports from Iran at 18-mth low

Reuters: China's crude oil imports from Iran in June halved from a year ago to its lowest monthly level in 18 months, contributing to...

Iran opposes OPEC oil output hike

AFP: Iran, the number two oil producer in OPEC, reaffirmed on Tuesday that it was against any hike in the cartel's output quota despite...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry appoints new spokesman

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 - Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has appointed Hassan Qashqavi as the new spokesman of his ministry, state...

Iran and N. Korea still part of ‘axis of evil’

Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush in 2002 branded Iraq, Iran and North Korea part of an "axis of evil, arming to threaten the...

Heat rises under Iran

Wall Street Journal: The U.S. is fine-tuning new financial penalties against Iran that would target everything from gasoline imports to the insurance sector, and...

Brown warns Iran to end ‘totally abhorrent’ threat to destroy Israel

The Guardian: Gordon Brown will today recall the Holocaust as he delivers a blunt warning to Iran to end its "totally abhorrent" threat to...

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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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Expansion of Rent-Seeking and Corruption in Iran’s Car Industry

Car imports and the crises resulting from them have...

Iran’s ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ Campaign Enters 124th Week

On Tuesday, June 9, the "No to Executions Tuesdays"...

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Iran Focus London, 18 Oct - The Kurdistan Regional...