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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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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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The Gallows: The Real Story of Iran Behind the Oslo Ceremony

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