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Iran’s hard-liners to hold demo in front of Italian embassy

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14 – Hard-line Iranian students will demonstrate on Tuesday outside the Italian embassy in Tehran, according to a report...

Iran’s Supreme Leader defends Ahmadinejad

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei defended President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his administration in the face of...

Iran arrests dozens of youths in north-west province

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14 – More than a hundred people have been arrested in the province of north-western province of Ardebil for...

Iran’s Ahmadinejad appoints nephew as his security chief

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14 – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has appointed one of his nephews as his new security chief, according to...

3 in 4 of Iran’s top government officials from Revolutionary Guards

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Seventy-five percent of the ministers and deputy ministers in the government of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad come...

Iran’s police use humiliation to punish young men

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Iran’s para-military policemen paraded seven handcuffed men around for several hours as a way to punish them...

Iran’s hard-liners accuse sacked envoys of corruption

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Iran’s ultra-Islamist group Ansar-e Hezbollah accused the country’s former ambassadors who were recently sacked by hard-line President...

Iran’s judiciary summons 4-year-old to court

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Iran’s hard-line judiciary has summoned a four-year-old child to court to face charges of assault on a...

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

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