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Senior Iran cleric: Prostitutes must be hanged

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – A senior Iranian cleric in the city of Qom called for death sentences to be handed down...

Larijani: Iran will suspend nuclear spot checks if threatened

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – Ali Larijani, secretary general of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said that he planned to formulate a...

Iran resumes crackdown in university halls

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – Iran’s para-military Bassij force attacked students in a university dormitory in the north-eastern town of Neishabour Sunday...

Hundreds of textile workers stage protest near Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 09 – More than 400 textile workers sealed off a main road in an industrial town between the city...

Iran sentences 17-year-old boy to death

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 09 – A 17-year-old boy was sentenced to death by hanging, a state-run daily reported on Sunday. Iran...

Iran arrests dissidents in restive oil-rich province

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 08 – Iranian authorities have recently arrested a large number of dissidents in the south-western province of Khuzistan, according...

Iran angered by Canada’s UN initiative

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 08 – Iran’s Minister of Justice and judiciary spokesman slated Canada on Friday for bringing up the issue of...

Iran’s hard-liners stage rally in support of nukes

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 07 – Several thousand Iranian hard-liners staged a rally organised by the ultra-Islamist Bassij militia in support of the...

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

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