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Shell says it faces sanctions in Iran

AP: Royal Dutch Shell PLC disclosed in a filing this week that it faces risks of U.S. sanctions in Iran. In a filing with...

Iran steps up war of words against Israel

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 22 – A news agency run by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that Israel...

Iranian reformists fear era of repression

The Guardian: With bone-cracking brutality, the waves of baton-wielding police seemed to confirm what the already demoralised Iranian reform movement had been dreading: the...

An interview with Iran’s new nuclear chief

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 21 – Unlike his fellow hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ali Ardeshir Larijani does not perfectly fit the stereotype mould of an...

Iran’s President-elect sues official news agency chief

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 – The head of Iran’s state-run news agency was summoned to court for questioning after ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud...

Iran’s Kurdish city under de facto martial law

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 – The Kurdish city of Mahabad, north-west Iran, was brought under de facto martial law as the paramilitary...

Political uncertainty brings jitters to Iran markets

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 – The Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) has suffered another plunge this week, as political uncertainty over the future...

Supreme Leader’s confidant gets Iran’s top security post

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran - Jul. 20 – The appointment of Ali Larijani as the new secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the...

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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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IRGC Attacks Kuwait and Bahrain, Hezbollah and Israel Clash

While in the early hours of Wednesday, June 3,...

US Imposes New Restrictions on Iranian Airlines

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