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Iran hostage-takers’ leader becomes head of political group

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 28 – A once firebrand Shiite cleric who acted as the leader of radical Islamist students who seized the...

Iran: New police intelligence chief appointed

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 28 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed a Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General as the new intelligence chief...

Iran gives judges right to shoot after attack

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 28 – The head of the Tehran Criminal Court on Sunday announced that all judges would be allowed to...

State Security Forces agent killed in Iran town

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 27 – An agent of Iran’s State Security Forces was killed in the town of Tonekabon, northern Iran, early...

Unidentified “spy drone” crashes in western Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 27 - An unmanned plane crashed after hitting a mountain in western Iran, according to government officials in the...

Senior Iran cleric hails “Islamic state of Iraq”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 26 – A senior Iranian cleric welcomed on Friday the establishment of an Islamic republic in Iraq and hailed...

Iran: In Brief

Iran Focus: The news in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran on Friday, Aug. 26 - Ban on Music DayBrothers EsmaeiliAhmadinejad shuns journalists“19-year-old girl kidnapped...

Murder, kidnapping of Iranian refugees in Iraq raise alarm

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 26 – The cold-blooded murder of three Iranian Kurds in a refugee camp west of the Iraqi capital and the...

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Renewed Protests Erupt in Iran

In recent days, Iran has witnessed fundamental changes in the nature of popular protests. The movement has evolved from...

Rising Crime and Social Breakdown After 47 Years of Clerical Rule in Iran

While Iran's regime has spent much of its resources and capabilities over more than four decades suppressing opponents, silencing...

Seventy-Eight Nobel Laureates Urge UN Action Amid Rising Executions in Iran

A coalition of 78 Nobel Prize laureates has issued a joint appeal to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, calling...

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US Sanctions Network Involved in the Sale of Iranian Liquefied Petroleum Gas

The United States sanctioned a network involved in the...

Widespread Student Protests Across the Country; Opposition to Educational Policies

Student protests against the educational policies of the Iranian...

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