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Bush urges Iran to free jailed journalist

AFP: US President George W. Bush wants Tehran to free jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji immediately and let him seek medical care after a...

Thousands demonstrate for release of political prisoners in Iran

Iran Focus and agencies: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – Thousands of residents demonstrated this evening in front of the main gate of Tehran University,...

Iran security forces kill youth at point blank, drag body in town

Iran Focus: Mahabad, Iran, Jul. 12 – Iran’s State Security Forces on Sunday opened fire at youths in the north-western volatile Kurdish town of...

Iran: University professors line up against campus destruction

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – More than 100 university lecturers yesterday took part in a gathering in Ahwaz Chamran University, southwest Iran,...

Iran: Assailants open fire on government official

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – A government official from the town of Chabahar (southeast Iran) was gunned down by unknown assailants in...

Rice: U.S. probing Iran leader’s role in embassy seizure

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jul. 11 – The United States continues its investigation into the role of ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 1979...

Militia Chief Chosen to Lead Iranian Police

New York Times: Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday appointed the commander of a conservative militia as the new chief of...

Top Iranian dissident hits one month on hunger strike

AFP: Iran's most prominent jailed dissident, journalist Akbar Ganji, has completed one month of hunger strike and is now demanding his unconditional release, his...

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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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Workers At Iran’s Makran Steel Face Nine Months of Unpaid Wages

The ongoing crisis of unpaid workers’ wages in contracted...

Iranian Nurses Protest Unpaid Outstanding Claims

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