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Murky move as Iran’s leader offers key post to protégé

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 13 – Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, Iran’s former police chief and defeated presidential contender, has been handpicked by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...

Iran’s Islamist vigilantes march for nuclear enrichment

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 - Some 1,000 members of the Islamist vigilante group, Ansar-e Hezbollah, held a rally following the Friday prayers...

Iran’s Islamic vigilantes plan British embassy protest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 – Hard-line members of the paramilitary Bassij announced that they will hold a rally outside the British embassy...

Britain rips Iran for breaching IAEA resolutions

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 12 - The British Foreign Office on Friday criticised Iran for breaching international agreements and resolutions by the United Nations...

Riot in southern Iran prison leaves dozens injured

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 – Anti-riot police used live ammunition to put down a prison riot in a southern Iranian city on...

Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: nuclear capability ensures our survival

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 – The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Friday that nuclear capabilities will guarantee...

Rafsanjani: Iran will never turn back on nuclear decision

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 - Iran’s influential former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani termed Thursday’s resolution adopted unanimously by the International...

Iran to flog dissidents for anti-government protest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 – More than a dozen protestors arrested in the oil-rich city of Ahwaz, southern Iran, during a demonstration...

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Warning Over the Imminent Execution of Political Prisoner Aref Khoshkar in Iran

Following the transfer of political prisoner Aref Khoshkar, who has been sentenced to death, to a solitary confinement cell...

Near-Complete Halt to Shipping Through the Strait of Hormuz

Bloomberg, citing vessel-tracking data, reported that maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz came to an almost complete halt...

129th Week of ‘No To Executions Tuesdays’ Campaign in 58 Prisons Across Iran

The "No To Executions Tuesdays" campaign has warned about the rising number of executions in Iran and called for...

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Iran’s leader steps deeper into the political fray

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