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Iran cleric Karroubi draws fire for divulging vote fix

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 21 - Recent comments by defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi and his decision to go public with information about...

Iran’s presidential underdog provokes controversy

Iran Focus: London, Jun. 21 - A 49-year-old former commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards catapulted to super-politician status by the unexpected results of...

Iran: Young prisoner sews mouth in protest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 21 – A young prisoner in Iran has sewn his mouth in protest to a sudden increase in his prison...

Iran security forces detain two pro-democracy protesters

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 21 – Two relatives of political prisoners have been arrested for a second time after having once appeared in front...

Violence mars Iran presidential candidate campaign

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 20 – Members of Iran’s hard-line paramilitary Bassij forces in Tehran’s Mellat Park attacked yesterday evening campaigners for the front-runner...

Iran bans four dailies over election rigging charges

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 20 - Four Iranian dailies were suspended today by Tehran’s Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor for carrying the text of a...

Iran cleric resigns post as fiasco over vote-fixing grows

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 19 – Iran’s former Parliament Speaker and presidential hopeful Mehdi Karroubi, who came in third in Friday’s presidential election, today...

Iran: 1,000 copper workers go on hunger strike

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 19 – Some 1,000 copper workers in the south-eastern Iranian city of Kerman staged a hunger strike in protest against...

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