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Women not permitted in cabinet of Iran’s new president

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 – Women will not be included in the cabinet of Iran’s new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a leading...

Security tight at Kurdish town on strike in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 – Iran’s State Security Forces and agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security have been on heightened...

Paramilitary vigilantes given police role in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 06 – The head of police in the province of Isfahan, central Iran, said in a gathering on Saturday...

8 Nobel laureates demand release of jailed journalist in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 05 – Eight winners of the Nobel prize called on Iran to immediately and unconditionally release jailed journalist Akbar...

Senior Iran cleric says talks with EU were doomed to fail

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 05 – Iran will not bow down to European and United States’ demands to cease its nuclear activities, a...

Iran threatens to activate uranium enrichment plant at Natanz

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 04 - Iran continued its nuclear brinkmanship on Thursday with a new threat to restart uranium enrichment at its massive...

Hunger-striking political prisoners in Iran maltreated – report

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 04 – A political prisoner who has launched a one-week-long hunger strike in solidarity for jailed journalist Akbar Ganji...

Iran Revolutionary Guards expect key changes in high command

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 4 – A series of changes expected at the top echelons of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards command will have far-reaching...

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Iran’s ‘No To Executions Tuesdays’ campaign Enters Its 128th Week

On Tuesday, July 7, the "No To Executions Tuesdays campaign" continued. The campaign, which was launched to end all...

Oil Tanker Attacked Near the Strait of Hormuz

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), a British maritime security monitoring organization, reported that an oil tanker sailing...

Arrested Iranian Protesters in Critical Conditions, Human Rights Bodies Warn

Iran Human Rights (IHR), a Norway-based human rights organization, on Monday, July 6, expressed concern over the growing wave...

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British Couple Imprisoned in Evin Prison Remain on Hunger Strike

Lindsay Foreman and Craig Foreman, two British citizens imprisoned...

Khamenei’s Burial Becomes Stage for Power Struggles Among Regime Factions

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