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Attack on Rafsanjani signals rising strife in Iran theocracy

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 – The son of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was heard as saying back in April that “we...

Iran news agency says Israel behind London and Iraq bombings

Iran Focus: Brussels, Jul. 10 – A news agency run by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that Israel was...

Senior Iran cleric says fake ballots were used to elect Ahmadinejad

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 – In a poignant letter to Iran’s outgoing President Mohammad Khatami, Hojjatol-Islam Mehdi Karroubi accused “an autocratic political...

Iran exiles hold protest rallies in 40 cities worldwide

Iran Focus: London/Berlin/Washington, DC, Jul. 10 – Iranian exiles in 40 different cities in Europe and North America held rallies, gatherings, and seminars on...

Iran puts police under Revolutionary Guards control

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 10 – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed a top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as the country’s new police...

Student dies mysteriously in Iran’s nuclear research facility

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 – A university student’s death was described as “suicide” by the authorities in Malek Ashtar University in Shahin-Shahr,...

Half of Iran’s nurses unemployed

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 09 – Half of Iran’s 140,000-strong nurses are unemployed and searching for a job, according to the head of...

Chaos in Iran prison as riot breaks out

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 08 – Rajai-Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of the capital, was the scene of a major riot on Wednesday,...

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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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