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String of arrests in volatile Kurdish towns in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 04 – A number of journalists and human rights defenders have been arrested in towns and cities in western...

Iran opposition denies role in assassination of Islamist judge

Iran Focus: Paris, Aug. 4 – The Iranian opposition group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK), denied that it had any role in the assassination of...

Iran daily confirms deadly clashes in Kurdish town

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 04 – Iran’s semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami on Thursday acknowledged yesterday’s violent clashes in the Kurdish town of Saqqez,...

Kurdish women’s rights activist arrested in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 04 – A prominent women’s rights activist in Iranian Kurdistan was arrested during a gathering organised in protest against...

World editorial round-up on Iran

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 04 – Newspapers around the world expressed alarm in their Thursday editorials at the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran...

11 die in northwest Iran clashes

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Heavy clashes which broke out between protesters and State Security Forces on Wednesday in the Kurdish town...

Hardliner takes over as Iran’s new president

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was confirmed on Wednesday as the sixth President of the Islamic Republic of Iran by...

Iran to postpone nuclear work until next week

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Facing a barrage of international criticism, Iran announced that it would start work at its uranium conversion...

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Iran Intensifies Pressure on Families of PMOI Prisoners Amid Expanding Crackdown

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