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Iran’s new president charts hard-line agenda

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 21 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday presented his 21-man cabinet to parliament and offered a raw mix...

Iran leader makes key changes in Revolutionary Guards command

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered on Saturday a key change in the high command of...

Iran police hunt banned satellite dishes

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – Iran’s police forces have been instructed to use all means, including helicopters, to locate and confiscate privately-owned...

New roundups in Iran as hard-liners crack down

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – Iran’s new police chief has ordered a new wave of arrests in the country’s capital by the...

Iran: Jailed former official requests review

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – The spokesman of Iran’s first post-revolutionary government requested on Saturday a review hearing after spending 26 years...

Iran’s new Interior Minister “ordered massacre”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 19 – In a letter to the United Nations human rights office in Geneva, a copy of which was sent...

Iran: Issue of Isfahan UCF no longer on negotiation table

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – Iran announced on Saturday that it was no longer willing to consider European calls for suspension of...

Iran’s new Justice Minister vows harsher crackdown on women

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – The man designated by Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as his Minister of Justice vowed on Saturday...

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Iran’s Statistics Center reports 115% food inflation

A new report by the Statistical Center of Iran shows that food inflation in March and April this year...

The Rising Cost of Food in Iran; Hidden Pressure on Large Families

The state-run magazine Niniban published a report on April 29 regarding rising food prices. The report stated: “This is...

Four Decades of Bitter Narratives: May Day as a Day of Wrath, Not Celebration, for Iran’s Workers

Does International Workers’ Day represent a celebration of dignity and status for Iran’s labor force? Do they gather in...

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UN Officials Call for a Halt to Executions and Repression in Iran

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...

Iran’s National Currency Has Declined by 120% Over the Past Year

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