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Struggling Iranian cleric offers cash handouts

AFP: One of Iran's struggling presidential candidates has come up with a novel way to get votes: buy them -- openly. Mehdi Karoubi, a...

Trapped in the city of Iran’s ‘desert vampires’

AFP: Fear, pollution and poverty stalk the Iranian industrial city of Pakdasht where the inhabitants have lost faith in successive governments and feel trapped...

Iran presidential candidate hints at bombings being “insider job”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 14 – One of the eight candidates bidding to become president in the upcoming election said that the recent spate...

Iran: conservative candidate denies any intention of quitting race

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 14 - Ali Larijani, one of the eight candidates in Iran’s upcoming presidential elections, announced today that he had no...

Iran elections candidates: Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Iran Focus: For over two decades, Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been one of the two most powerful men within Iran’s ruling hierarchy, first as...

Iran elections candidates: Mohsen Rezai

Iran Focus: Major General Mohsen Rezai was Commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from 1981 to 1997. The IRGC, and in...

Iran elections candidates: Ali Larijani

Iran Focus: Ali Ardeshir Larijani was the head of the Iranian State TV and Radio from 1994 to 2004. Prior to that, Larijani served...

Iran elections candidates: Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf

Iran Focus: Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf is one of the eight hopefuls competing to become president following the June 17 elections. He is also one of...

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Khamenei’s Burial Becomes Stage for Power Struggles Among Regime Factions

On the second day of the funeral ceremonies for former regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the event became a...

New Uncertainty Surrounding Iran’s Underground Nuclear Facilities

According to the latest assessment by the U.S.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), headed by nuclear expert...

Iranian Regime Moves to Resume Oil Sales to Japan

Reuters reported on Friday, July 3, citing three Iranian and Western sources, that Iran has begun negotiations to sell...

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The United States and Arab Allies Sanction Five Entities and 16 Hezbollah Officials

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