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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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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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Iran’s Regime Nearing Oil Export Deadlock

Bloomberg, citing the analytics firm Kpler, reported that the...

Iranian Doctor Sentenced to Death for Helping Injured Protesters

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