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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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