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Britain has accepted incoming Iranian ambassador – report

Iran Focus: London, May 15 – Britain has “unofficially” accepted Iran’s proposed candidate for ambassador, a Persian-language website belonging to the State Expediency Council...

Iran’s Rafsanjani accuses the West of “psychological war”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 – Iran’s former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani accused the West on Monday of launching a “psychological...

Iran says it will not hold talks with U.S. over Iraq

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 14 – Iran announced on Sunday that it will not hold direct talks with the United States on the...

Top cleric says Iran’s letter to Bush was “divine inspiration”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 13 – A senior Iranian cleric described a letter sent by hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to United States’...

Iran gave al-Qaeda in Iraq SAM-7 missiles – report

Iran Focus: London, May 13 – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had provided the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq heavy weapons including anti-aircraft...

Rights group urges EU to pressure Iran to stop execution

Iran Focus: London, May 13 – A Tehran-based human rights group has called on the European Union to pressure Iran to suspend the imminent...

Crackdown on women spreads to Iran’s provinces

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 12 – Iranian security forces have extended their crackdown on “mal-veiled” women from Tehran to Iran’s other provinces. ...

Iran’s south-eastern military base gets new chief

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 12 – A senior military commander was appointed earlier this week as the new head of an ultra-secretive division...

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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

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

Internet Shutdowns Have Devastated the Livelihoods of Millions of Iranians

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