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Islamic vigilantes assist police in cracking down on dissent

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 08 – The newly-appointed Iran police chief said that as part of a new policy to aggressively crack down...

Workers blockade main road in southwest Iran town

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 08 – Some 300 angry workers from the small industrial town of Ghazveen, southwest Iran, blockaded the town’s main...

Iran’s Islamist forces annex peasants’ land

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 08 – Iran’s para-military Bassij forces in the coastal province of Mazandaran, northern Iran, annexed pastures belonging to farmers...

Yemen appeals court convicts two men of terror links to Iran

Iran Focus: London, Sep. 08 – A criminal appeals court in Yemen upheld a ruling against two individuals on terrorism charges and working on...

Iran launches 20-day crackdown

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 07 – Iran’s State Security Forces have started a 20-day-long crackdown on “trouble-makers”, Iran’s state-run press, quoting the country’s...

Two Kurdish activists hanged in prison in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 07 – Two Iranian Kurdish activists were hanged in a prison in the town of Orumieh, northwest Iran, for...

Iran to speed up flogging of women for “bad” veil

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 – Women who violate Iran’s strict Islamic dress code will be flogged immediately, prosecutor’s offices in provincial centres...

International spotlight vexes Iran’s police chief

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 – Iran’s newly-installed chief of police warned a meeting of his task force commanders on Tuesday that they...

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

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

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