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Drug smugglers arrested in Iraq include 6 from Iran

Iran Focus: Baghdad, May 30 – Iraqi security forces in the city of Suleimaniya (Iraqi Kurdistan) yesterday arrested a drug ring that included six...

Journalists protest in front of Iran Parliament

Iran Focus: Tehran, May 30 – Journalists demonstrated outside Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) in Tehran yesterday, protesting against threats and insults to fellow reporters by...

Conservative MP supports Iran opposition leader in Commons debate

Iran Focus: London, May 29 – A British Parliamentarian called on the United Kingdom government to change its current policy vis-à-vis Iran and instead...

“We are starving”: Iran workers chant outside Ministry of Labour

Iran Focus: Tehran, May 29 – More than 300 workers in Pakdasht (suburbs of Tehran) gathered outside the offices of the Ministry of Labour,...

UN, Red Cross translator disavows HRW report on Iran opposition

Iran Focus: Ottawa, May 28 – A former translator for the Red Cross (ICRC) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iraq,...

US Congressman criticises Human Rights Watch for Iran group report

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, May 27 – A recent report by New York-based Human Rights watch on Iran’s main opposition group has drawn the...

Iran: Profile of VEVAK’s Master Terrorist – Mohammad-Reza Iravani (a.k.a. Amir-Hossein Taghavi)

Iran’s sophisticated intelligence operations abroad are led by a shadowy figure at the helm of VEVAK: Berlin, May 27 (Iran Terror Website) - Hojjatol-Islam...

Attorneys, witnesses, and relatives of Iraq-based Iranian dissidents rip HRW report

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, May 27 - In a press briefing yesterday at the National Press Club in the U.S. capital, attorneys for the...

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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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Steel Workers in Sistan and Baluchestan Face Uncertainty as Iran’s Economy Continues its Downspiral

While economic crises and production stagnation have placed heavy...

Political Prisoner Yahgoub Derakhshan Sentenced to Death for a Second Time

Yahgoub Derakhshan, a political prisoner and supporter of the...

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