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Thousands of Iran dissidents in Iraq reject “slanderous” report

Iran Focus: Baghdad, May 27 - Some 3,446 Iranian dissidents belonging to Iran’s main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin (PMOI), declared in a statement...

Iraqi rights inspector clears Iran group of abuse charges

Iran Focus: Baghdad, May 27 – Iraq’s acting National Human Rights Inspector released a report today on his findings during fact-finding visits to the...

Iran Revolutionary Guard killing of young man sparks clashes

Iran Focus: Tehran, May 26 – A warrant officer of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards shot to death a young man in cold blood at an...

Human Rights Watch grilled by British Peer for report on Iran opposition

Iran Focus: London, U.K., May 26 – A prominent British human rights advocate strongly criticised Human Rights Watch over the New York-based organization’s controversial...

Pressure grows on Human Rights Watch to retract report on Iran opposition

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, May 26 - A press briefing is being held today in the National Press Building in the United States’ capital...

Amnesty International censures Iran rights abuses

Iran Focus: London, May 26 – The London-based international human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, in its 2005 annual report, released this week, strongly criticised...

Man publicly hanged in southern Iran town

Iran Focus: Tehran, May 25 – A young man was hanged in public in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz, accused of armed robbery...

UK parliamentarians fault HRW report, support Iran opposition group

Iran Focus: London, May 24 – More than a dozen British parliamentarians today called on the government to support the Iranian opposition, while denouncing...

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The Secret of the Kolang Mountain Nuclear Shelter

The Iranian regime's nuclear secrecy deep inside Kolang Mountain demonstrates its prioritization of destructive nuclear projects and its insistence...

Ghezel Hesar Prisoners Enter Ninth Day of Dry Hunger Strike

The mass hunger strike by death row prisoners in Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj entered its...

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Masoud Nili, a regime-affiliated economist and faculty member at the Department of Management and Economics of Sharif University of...

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