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Rice says Iran at odds with U.S. over Middle East

Iran Focus: London, Dec. 20 – United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned on Monday that recent remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...

Iran steps up arrests of youths

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20 – As part of a crackdown on “trouble-makers”, police in northeast Iran arrested dozens of people in several...

Iran’s “anti-vice police” make arrests in party raid

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20 – Iranian State Security Forces raided a residence in the northern city of Noshahr over the weekend, arresting...

13 Iraqi officers involved in torture ring flee to Iran

Iran Focus: Baghdad, Dec. 20 – More than a dozen Iraqi officers involved in the illegal torture of detainees at secret prisons in Baghdad...

Iran hangs young prisoner in capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 – Authorities hanged a young man in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, a state-run daily reported on Monday. ...

Iran’s president honours “martyred” bodyguard

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, several of his ministers and senior military and government figures attended a special...

Selection of Iran’s leader to remain a men-only domain

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 – A powerful cleric rejected the notion of women taking up posts in the assembly of theologians who...

Iran’s top official calls Bush “odd” man

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 18 – Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator and Secretary General of the powerful Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) described on...

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In recent days, the issue of bread prices has become one of the most important livelihood concerns in Iran....

Privatization: The Transfer of Wealth to Power Circles in Iran’s Regime

Privatization has been one of the most significant economic policies of Iran's regime over the past three decades. Regime...

European Union Sanctions Against Iran’s Regime and the Strait of Hormuz Crisis

In the latest development in the tense relations between Tehran and Brussels, the issue of European Union sanctions has...

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