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Man hanged in public

Iran Focus: An Iranian man was hanged today near the Iranian capital, Tehran, the fifth person to be executed in public in as many...

Anti-government riot rocks Iran’s key Persian Gulf oil port

Iran Focus: Ganaveh, Aug 25 – Government buildings in this major oil terminal and Persian Gulf port were still smoldering this morning after day-long...

Shock, outrage over execution of 16-year-old girl in Iran

Iran Focus: News of the execution of a sixteen-year-old girl in northern Iran, first broken by Iran Focus, has been met with shock and...

Executions on the rise in Iran

Iran Focus: A religious court in Tehran sentenced two men to execution, bringing to more than 110 the number of people hanged since January...

Tehran snubs London over gunboats

Iran Focus: Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri, the spokesman for the Revolutionary Guards, rejected British demands for the return of military boats and equipment seized...

Iranian agents arrested in Iraq

Iran Focus: Some 100 Iranians holding fake Afghan identity cards were arrested on August 8 in Diyala Province, bordering Iran, according to sources in...

Revolutionary Guards commander: U.S. is massacring Shiite children

Iran Focus: The commander of Revolutionary Guards in the southern province of Kerman told thousands of his troops and members of the para-military Bassij...

Girl, 16, Hanged in Public in Iran

Iran Focus On Sunday, August 15, a 16-year-old girl in the town  of Neka, northern Iran, was executed. Atefeh Sahaleh was hanged in public...

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