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Iran barred from hosting international wrestling matches: FILA

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 20 – Iran will no longer be permitted to host international wrestling events because of its refusal to allow...

U.S. Congress wants Iran embassy hostage-takers put on trial

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 20 – Several members of the United States Congress are expected to introduce a bill on Wednesday calling on the...

Iran lambastes German minister for linking Ahmadinejad with terrorism

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 19 – Iran reacted sharply on Tuesday to a statement by German Interior Minister Otto Schily linking President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...

Turkey releases bombing suspect under pressure from Iran

Iran Focus: Istanbul, Jul. 19 - The Turkish authorities released one of the chief suspects in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre...

Iran hangs under-18 adolescent in public

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 - A young man and a minor were hanged in public on Tuesday in Iran’s second largest city,...

Iran’s Rafsanjani renews firestorm over election fraud

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 – The losing candidate in Iran’s recent presidential elections, Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, strongly condemned “the way ballots...

Iran rejects reports on jailed dissident as “propaganda”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 – Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel on Monday rejected “propagandist reports” on the failing conditions of...

Qods Force commander slain in Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 18 – A colonel in the elite Qods (Jerusalem) Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed in...

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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...

Iran Intensifies Pressure on Families of PMOI Prisoners Amid Expanding Crackdown

Iranian authorities have intensified pressure on the families of political prisoners and executed dissidents in recent weeks, with multiple...

Iran: A Dangerous Country for Journalists

According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the state of press freedom worldwide has fallen to its lowest level in...

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