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US takes a new swipe at Iran’s elections

AFP: The United States on Monday dismissed Iran's presidential elections as "unrepresentative" and "repressive" and argued that the country's people deserved better. A first...

Violence mars Iran presidential candidate campaign

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 20 – Members of Iran’s hard-line paramilitary Bassij forces in Tehran’s Mellat Park attacked yesterday evening campaigners for the front-runner...

Defeated Iranian reformist demands election postponement

AFP: The main reformist candidate defeated in a first round of Iran's presidential election demanded Monday that the runoff polls be postponed pending a...

Iran bans four dailies over election rigging charges

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 20 - Four Iranian dailies were suspended today by Tehran’s Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor for carrying the text of a...

Rice accuses Iran of ‘organised cruelty’

AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice condemned what she described as "the organised cruelty" of the Iranian regime, three days after the first...

Iran poll challenger accused of ballot fraud

The Guardian: Iran's presidential election was thrown into uncharted territory yesterday after a hardline candidate who unexpectedly won his way into a run-off vote...

Iran cleric resigns post as fiasco over vote-fixing grows

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 19 – Iran’s former Parliament Speaker and presidential hopeful Mehdi Karroubi, who came in third in Friday’s presidential election, today...

Vote-Rigging Feared in Iran Election

AP: The front-runner in Iran's presidential runoff sought to rally moderates Sunday by warning that his hard-line opponent would run a totalitarian regime, a...

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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,...

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

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

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Nuclear talks with Iran may start without U.S.-report

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Olmert, Merkel hold talks on Gaza and Iran

Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Israeli Prime Minister...