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Floods kill 27 in northeast Iran

Reuters: Floods caused by heavy rain killed 27 people in northeastern Iran on Sunday, state radio reported. It quoted a local governor as saying...

Protesting Iran human rights lawyer arrested

AFP: A colleague of the Nobel Prize winning Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Abdolfattah Soltani, was arrested on Saturday, a fellow lawyer said....

Iran confiscating minorities’ land says UN report

Reuters: Iran is denying basic amenities to its ethnic and religious minorities and in some cases confiscating their land, a preliminary U.N. report said...

Iran media fuel row with London over opposition leader

Iran Focus: Paris, Jul. 30 – Iran’s officials and state-owned media have been launching virulent attacks on the British government for supposedly hosting an...

Iran’s censors stop popular play on murder of dissidents

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 – The showing of a play staged by Iran’s leading playwright and theatre director came to an abrupt...

Iran lawyer for slain journalist takes refuge to avoid arrest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 – A human rights lawyer representing the family of slain Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi turned up unexpectedly at...

Iran Kurds stage new protest as unrest continues

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 – Some 300 Kurdish activists gathered on Saturday at a sit-in outside the governor’s office in Iran’s western...

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator faces charges over Halliburton ties

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 29 – Iran’s judiciary has arrested several executives of a privately-owned oil drilling company over their dealings with the...

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War and its Impact on Children’s Education in Iran

Repeated school closures during the war between the United States and Iran's regime have severely reduced the quality of...

Iran: Violent Transfer of Political Prisoners to the Notorious Ghezel Hesar Prison

On Monday, April 13, seven political prisoners held in Ward 7 of Evin Prison in Tehran were abruptly, violently,...

The German Government Will Not Receive the Son of Iran’s Last Shah

Following reports of Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, traveling to Germany to attend...

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The Collapse of Livelihoods in Tehran; Housing Rent Has ‌Become a Nightmare

An examination of rental listings in Tehran’s Districts 4...

Iranian Protester Dies Under Torture by Regime Agents

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