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Ex U.S. hostages confirm Iran president’s role in embassy siege

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 26 – Two former United States hostages held captive in Iran for 444 days when radical Islamists seized the American...

Iran’s “new initiative” for nuclear talks sets tougher tone

Iran Focus: Vienna, Aug. 26 – Iran’s new chief nuclear negotiator is due to hold talks with the head of the International Atomic Energy...

Iran’s leader names new Revolutionary Guards air force chief

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 25 – Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appointed a veteran Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) general as the...

Iran’s defeated reformists pin hope on dissident ayatollah

Iran Focus: Paris, Aug. 25 – A simple Islamic wedding party, with male guests in one hall and women in a separate wing, turned...

Iran police arrest Kurdish activist in restive city

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 25 – A Kurdish activist in the city of Sanandaj, northwest Iran, was arrested by State Security Forces, Persian-language...

Swedish police probe murder of dissident Iran Kurd

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 25 – An Iranian opposition activist was killed in the Swedish town of Lindsberg, on Monday by unidentified assailants,...

7 boys under-18 executed in Iran since January: Amnesty

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 25 - The human rights organisation Amnesty International expressed concern on Thursday at the imminent execution of two minors in...

Sex orgies, STD on the rise in Iran, hard-line daily warns

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 25 – An influential hard-line daily in Iran warned that young people were increasingly turning to sex orgies, drugs,...

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British Couple Imprisoned in Evin Prison Remain on Hunger Strike

Lindsay Foreman and Craig Foreman, two British citizens imprisoned in Tehran's Evin Prison, are continuing their hunger strike in...

Khamenei’s Burial Becomes Stage for Power Struggles Among Regime Factions

On the second day of the funeral ceremonies for former regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the event became a...

New Uncertainty Surrounding Iran’s Underground Nuclear Facilities

According to the latest assessment by the U.S.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), headed by nuclear expert...

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Escalating Iran-US Conflict Cuts Strait of Hormuz Traffic, Lifts Oil Prices

Oil Prices Rise and Ship Traffic Through the Strait...

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