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Iran to flog dissidents for anti-government protest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 – More than a dozen protestors arrested in the oil-rich city of Ahwaz, southern Iran, during a demonstration...

Clashes in Shiite shrine unnerves Iran’s holy city

Iran Focus: Qom, Iran, Aug. 11 – At noon, the streets are quiet in this dusty, hot, sprawling city of two million that is...

Iran to hang young woman for teenage crime

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 – Iran’s clergy-dominated Supreme Court upheld a death by hanging sentence for a young woman accused of killing...

Senior Iran cleric tells government to stamp out Kurdish unrest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 – One of Iran’s high profile clerics has warned the government that he would take matters into his...

Unrest continues in Iran’s Kurdish region

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 10 – Sixty Iranian women activists made a public appeal on Thursday for the release of a Kurdish feminist...

Abduction of Iran dissidents in Iraq may signal new policy

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 10 – Two members of Iran’s main opposition group have been kidnapped in Baghdad by Iraqi security forces, the Associated...

Protest outside jail in restive Kurdish town continues

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 08 – Relatives of those arrested in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran, during last week’s anti-government protests...

Larijani to become Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator – IRNA

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 08 – Ali Larijani, a top confidant of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will take over as Secretary of...

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European Union Sanctions Against Iran’s Regime and the Strait of Hormuz Crisis

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