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Iran’s security forces arrest Kurds after unrest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 22 – Iran's State Security Forces have stepped up arrests of Kurds who took part in large-scale anti-government demonstrations...

Iran’s new sex-segregated park gets underway

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 21 – A new sex-segregated park is under development in the city of Mashad, north-eastern Iran, according to the...

Iran’s new president charts hard-line agenda

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 21 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday presented his 21-man cabinet to parliament and offered a raw mix...

Iran leader makes key changes in Revolutionary Guards command

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered on Saturday a key change in the high command of...

Iran police hunt banned satellite dishes

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – Iran’s police forces have been instructed to use all means, including helicopters, to locate and confiscate privately-owned...

New roundups in Iran as hard-liners crack down

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – Iran’s new police chief has ordered a new wave of arrests in the country’s capital by the...

Iran: Jailed former official requests review

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – The spokesman of Iran’s first post-revolutionary government requested on Saturday a review hearing after spending 26 years...

Iran’s new Interior Minister “ordered massacre”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 19 – In a letter to the United Nations human rights office in Geneva, a copy of which was sent...

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Iran’s Employment Crisis: The Increase in Unemployment Insurance Registrations

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Message from a Political Prisoner Inside Iran’s Prisons

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Record Number of Imprisoned Writers Worldwide. Iran Ranks Second with 53 Jailed Writers

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Record Number of Imprisoned Writers Worldwide. Iran Ranks Second with 53 Jailed Writers

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