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Students protest outside Iran parliament

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 05 – A group of pharmaceutical students protested outside Iran’s Majlis, or parliament, against a recently-ratified bill that was...

Iran sending election campaign posters to Iraq – report

Iran Focus: Baghdad, Dec. 05 – Iran is sending heaps of campaign posters to Iraq for the upcoming December 15 elections in trucks crossing...

Iran’s students protest in southern city

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 05 – Students at the University of Technology in the southern city of Shiraz refused to attend classes and...

Supreme Leader appoints Iran’s new military intelligence chief

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 04 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed on Sunday a new counter-intelligence chief for the Islamic Republic’s...

Iran’s “anti-vice police” arrest dozens in party raid

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 04 – Iranian State Security Forces raided a home in the north-eastern city of Mashad, host to a co-ed...

Intimidation at Iraq’s polls sees victory for pro-Iran groups

Iran Focus: London, Dec. 04 – Independent Iraqi observers who are planning to monitor the upcoming December 15 elections in Iraq are resisting travelling...

Iran’s president nominates fourth oilman

Iran Focus: London, Dec. 04 – In the latest turn in months of infighting over the control of Iran’s giant petroleum industry, President Mahmoud...

Iran, on defiant course, tunes up military

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 03 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered a major reshuffle of the top brass of 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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Bread Prices and the New Wave of Price Increases and Rationing in Iran

In recent days, the issue of bread prices has...

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