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Clashes in Shiite shrine unnerves Iran’s holy city

Iran Focus: Qom, Iran, Aug. 11 – At noon, the streets are quiet in this dusty, hot, sprawling city of two million that is...

Iran to hang young woman for teenage crime

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 – Iran’s clergy-dominated Supreme Court upheld a death by hanging sentence for a young woman accused of killing...

Senior Iran cleric tells government to stamp out Kurdish unrest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 – One of Iran’s high profile clerics has warned the government that he would take matters into his...

Unrest continues in Iran’s Kurdish region

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 10 – Sixty Iranian women activists made a public appeal on Thursday for the release of a Kurdish feminist...

Abduction of Iran dissidents in Iraq may signal new policy

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 10 – Two members of Iran’s main opposition group have been kidnapped in Baghdad by Iraqi security forces, the Associated...

Protest outside jail in restive Kurdish town continues

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 08 – Relatives of those arrested in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran, during last week’s anti-government protests...

Larijani to become Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator – IRNA

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 08 – Ali Larijani, a top confidant of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will take over as Secretary of...

Mass strike brings Iran’s Kurdish provinces to a standstill

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 08 – Several Kurdish towns in northwest Iran have come to a standstill after people launched a mass strike...

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Restrictions, Pressure, and Detention of Families of Opponents of Iran’s Regime

According to a report by Sky News on April 26, Iran's regime has intensified its repressive policies against opponents. In...

Iran’s Regime Ramps Up Execution of Baluch Political Prisoners to Control Society

Documented reports from recent years show that the execution of Baluch political prisoners in Iran has become a consistent...

Iran’s Regime Nearing Oil Export Deadlock

Bloomberg, citing the analytics firm Kpler, reported that the Iranian regime is facing a growing oil storage crisis, with...

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A New Wave of Mass Arrests in Iran

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