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90,000 students forced to quit studies in northern Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 25 – Some 90,000 students have been forced to leave their studies for a variety of reasons, including poverty...

Iran street-parades 22-year-old man

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 25 – A 22-year-old man from the town of Varamin, southern Tehran, was street-paraded and sentenced to lashes for...

Iran President ridicules West’s handling of nuclear standoff

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 24 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad charted an intransigent course for his country’s controversial nuclear program and mocked...

Iran’s intelligence agents enter U.S. capital – report

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Oct. 24 – Agents of Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have entered United States soil and are...

Iran’s Ansar-e Hezbollah warns liberals

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 24 – One of Iran’s most radical Islamist groups warned in a statement on Sunday enemies of Iran’s President...

Iran’s hard-line judge pays fine for murder of young man

Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 23 – A court ruling in the northern town of Rudsar that only imposed a fine on a hard-line judge...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “liquidate” whistleblower

Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 23 – The trial behind closed doors of a senior Revolutionary Guards commander in the northern province of Gilan and...

Iran bans books that “inflame ethnic strife”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 22 – Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance banned the publication of several books about Iran’s ethnic minorities,...

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The Effects of Sanctions Relief and Negotiations on Iran’s Economy

Today, Iran’s economy is simultaneously suffering from chronic inflation, declining investment, the erosion of the middle class, expanding poverty,...

Ali Khamenei’s Corpse and the Spectacle of a Dictator’s Burial

The project of burying Ali Khamenei has long been a subject of discussion among the leaders of Iran's regime....

Agreement Between Iran’s Regime and the United States Highlights a New Rift Within the Ruling Establishment

Disagreements over the course of negotiations between Tehran and Washington have once again become public. While some media outlets...

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Iran’s ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ Campaign Enters 124th Week

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Internet Shutdowns Have Devastated the Livelihoods of Millions of Iranians

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