Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 15 – Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) are once again confiscating satellite dishes in the capital Tehran.
Iran authorities confiscate satellite dishes
Journalist suffers suspicious death in north-east Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 14 – An Iranian journalist who wrote an editorial criticising the actions of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) on Monday was killed in the north-eastern city of Mashhad.
Journalist suffers suspicious death in north-east Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 14 – An Iranian journalist who wrote an editorial criticising the actions of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) on Monday was killed in the north-eastern city of Mashhad.
Ahmadinejad to take oath in August
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will take the oath of office before parliament in early August following his hotly-disputed re-election, the ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
Russia says no Iran sanctions for START deal: report
Reuters: Russia will not agree to tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program in exchange for a new nuclear arms cuts deal with Washington, Interfax news agency quoted a foreign ministry source as saying Tuesday.
We must cut our ties with Iran until the suppression is halted
The Independent: Last week's anti-government rallies in the streets of Tehran and elsewhere show that the situation in Iran remains explosive and makes nonsense of the regime's claims that the protests are over.
Iran singer gets five-year jail term
AFP: An Iranian singer, Mohsen Namjoo, has been sentenced in absentia to a five-year jail term for ridiculing the Koran holy book in a song, reformist daily Etemad Melli reported on Tuesday.
Iran hangs 13 Sunni rebels
Reuters: Iran hanged 13 members of a Sunni rebel group on Tuesday for killings and attacks in a volatile southeastern area, but they were put to death in prison and not in public as initially planned, official media reported.
Death in the dorms: Iranian students recall horror of police invasion
The Guardian
• Victims tell of arrests, threats and beatings
• Two women among five killed by officers
U.S. worried about American scholar detained in Iran
Reuters: The United States called on Iran on Monday to release U.S. citizen Kian Tajbakhsh and said it was "deeply concerned" about the scholar, who was detained in Tehran last week and has previously been accused of spying.
