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Iran: Security Council must not be used as political tool

Iran Focus: London, Feb. 20 – The United Nations Security Council must not be used as a political tool, Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki...

Police confiscate alcohol, satellite dishes in Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 18 – Iranian police confiscated 28,000 bottles of liqueur, large quantities of banned CDs, and several thousand satellite dishes...

Iran recruits suicide bombers to fight “Global Blasphemy”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 – A group affiliated to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps launched a new recruitment drive for suicide bombers...

Iran cracks down on Sufis: hundreds remain jailed

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 – Iran Focus has obtained a partial list of names of Islamic mystics arrested during a protest in...

Rafsanjani has no say in Iran’s nuclear policy – official

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 – Former Iranian President and current chairman of the State Expediency Council Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has...

Many Muslims ignore Iran’s incitement over cartoons

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 – An attempt by Iran’s radical theocratic government to organise an international conference of Islamist parties in Tehran...

Iran attacks dissidents over cartoon row

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 – Iran criticised its principal opposition movement on Saturday for charging that it was behind the recent violence...

Senior Hamas delegation to visit Iran on Monday

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 18 – A senior delegation from the radical Palestinian group Hamas will travel to Tehran on Monday to meet...

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Repression and Human Rights Violations in Iran – April 2026

What distinguishes the pages of Iran’s history at the beginning of 2026 more than ever is the emergence of...

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US Preparing for a Long-Term Blockade of Iran’s Ports

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Transfer of a death-row political prisoner to solitary confinement in Urmia, Iran

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