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Iran’s Supreme Leader orders unprecedented crackdown

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the head of the country’s judiciary to deal “decisively”...

Iran arrests two Kurdish activists

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – Two Iranian Kurds were arrested and taken to unknown locations by Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) in...

A founder of Iran’s secret police now chief nuclear negotiator

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 11 – As the newly-installed government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues its complete overhaul of Iran’s bureaucratic juggernaut, a...

Iran’s regular army gets new chief as reshuffle goes on

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 11 - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed on Sunday a new top commander for Iran’s regular armed...

Iran military says Katrina showed U.S. could be turned into “war zone”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 11 – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been following closely the way the United States government has been handling Hurricane...

Iran targeting British troops in Iraq – report

Iran Focus: London, Sep. 11 – Iran is examining ways to step up attacks against British forces based in southern Iraq, an Arabic television...

Iran’s women lose jobs despite competence

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 11 – Women have been finding it evermore difficult to find employment in Iran and their social rights have...

Iran: Ten university chancellors resign in protest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 11 – The chancellors of ten of Iran’s prestigious universities have resigned in protest against the policies of the...

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Iran’s ‘No To Executions Tuesdays’ campaign Enters Its 128th Week

On Tuesday, July 7, the "No To Executions Tuesdays campaign" continued. The campaign, which was launched to end all...

Oil Tanker Attacked Near the Strait of Hormuz

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), a British maritime security monitoring organization, reported that an oil tanker sailing...

Arrested Iranian Protesters in Critical Conditions, Human Rights Bodies Warn

Iran Human Rights (IHR), a Norway-based human rights organization, on Monday, July 6, expressed concern over the growing wave...

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