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Cursed to be wealthy

Iran Focus - Editorial: London, Jan. 01 - Nearly 150 billion dollars in oil revenues flooded Iran’s foreign reserves during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 30-month tenure...

Ahmadinejad ally to head Iran’s centre for dialogue with West

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday appointed a close ultra-conservative ally as the new head of...

Iran Supreme Court upholds death sentence for teenage boy

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 29 – Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence for a 17-year-old schoolboy over the murder of his...

Official: A dozen Iranians die daily from drug addiction

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 26 - About a dozen people die every day in Iran from drug addiction, the equivalent of one death...

Amnesty calls for release of trade unionist from Iran jail

Iran Focus: London, Dec. 22 – A prominent international human rights organisation called for the immediate release of an Iranian trade union leader who...

Iran FM due in Bahrain next week

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 22 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due to visit the oil-rich state of Bahrain next week. ...

Quakes jolt north-east and south-west Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 22 – Two quakes measuring 3.5 and 3.6 on the Richter scale shook parts of the Iranian provinces of...

Iran hangs three men, one woman

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20 – Iranian authorities hanged four people, including a woman, in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on...

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As the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) approaches the 61st anniversary of its founding on September 6, a...

Iran’s Rial in Freefall, Putting Strain on People’s Livelihoods

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