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Chaos in Iran prison as riot breaks out

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 08 – Rajai-Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of the capital, was the scene of a major riot on Wednesday,...

Senior Iran cleric blames West for London bombings

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 08 – The Friday Prayers’ Sermon leader addressing worshipers in Tehran today laid the blame of yesterday’s simultaneous bombings...

Iran Revolutionary Guards ready to serve Ahmadinejad

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 07 – The second most senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) top brass pledged today to...

Iran Revolutionary Guards commanders huddle with President-elect

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 07 – In a meeting with Iran’s newly-elected ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday, the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)...

In Iran one new person gains drug addiction every 3 minutes

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 07 – In Iran one person becomes addicted to drugs every three minutes, according to the head of the...

Man publicly hanged in northwest Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 07 – A man was publicly hanged at dawn on Tuesday in the town of Salmas, northwest Iran, accused...

Iraqi Defence Minister says Iran opposition group can remain in Iraq

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 07 – Iraqi Defence Minister Sa’adun al-Dulaimi, in a joint press conference with Iranian Defence Minister Ali Shamkhani, announced...

Iran, Arab neighbours spar over leader’s caricature

Iran Focus: Dubai, Jul. 06 – In an interview with the Kuwaiti news agency, the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) today sharply...

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Renewed Protests Erupt in Iran

In recent days, Iran has witnessed fundamental changes in the nature of popular protests. The movement has evolved from...

Rising Crime and Social Breakdown After 47 Years of Clerical Rule in Iran

While Iran's regime has spent much of its resources and capabilities over more than four decades suppressing opponents, silencing...

Seventy-Eight Nobel Laureates Urge UN Action Amid Rising Executions in Iran

A coalition of 78 Nobel Prize laureates has issued a joint appeal to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, calling...

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Political Prisoner Yahgoub Derakhshan Sentenced to Death for a Second Time

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