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Iran accuses human rights lawyer of spying

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 – Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi announced on Monday that a human rights lawyer who had been...

Larijani takes over Iran’s nuclear negotiations

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 15 – On Monday, Iran’s new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad handed down the position of Secretary of the Supreme National...

Iran hard-liners laud Revolutionary Guards’ grip on new cabinet

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 – Deputies in Iran’s hard-line Majlis (parliament) welcomed the proposed list for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s new 21-member cabinet,...

Iran police use teargas to disperse protesters

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 – Police fought off angry demonstrators on Monday with teargas outside a government ministry in Tehran. Dozens of...

Teachers protest outside Iran Majlis for jobs

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 – A group of kindergarten teachers gathered outside Iran’s Majlis on Monday to protest against the Ministry of...

Multinational Force in Iraq lashes out at abduction of Iran dissidents

Iran Focus: Baghdad, Aug. 15 - The Multinational Force in Iraq on Sunday strongly condemned the abduction earlier this month of two Iranian dissidents...

Iran’s extremist Shiite cleric finds new clout

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 – A radical Islamist cleric based in the holy city of Qom is holding unusual sway over Iran’s...

U.S. investigates abduction of Iranian dissidents in Iraq

Iran Focus and agencies: London, Aug. 15 - The US military says it is investigating the apparent kidnapping of two Iranian opposition members who...

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Message from a Political Prisoner Inside Iran’s Prisons

Imprisoned student Amirhossein Moradi, responding to an offer by the Iranian regime’s judiciary to grant him a pardon, declared...

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

PEN America announced in its latest annual report on the state of freedom of expression worldwide that the number...

IRGC Members Arrested in Kuwait, Woman Sentenced to Life in Prison in Bahrain for Cooperation with IRGC

As the Iranian regime continues its destabilizing activities against countries in the region, Kuwait announced the arrest of four...

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