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Families hold third sit-in for condemned drug offenders
A group of families of convicts sentenced to death for drug offences staged its third sit-in in front of Iranian Parliament today, Sunday September…
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Explosions at Camp Ashraf bring contradictory reports
Reports from Iraq indicate that explosions have left scores of people dead in Camp Ashraf, where about 100 members of the Iranian dissident group…
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Jailed blogger, mother both in danger from hunger strikes
Hossein Ronaghi Maleki Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, the jailed Iranian blogger who’s on a hunger strike, and his mother, Zoleikha Mousavi, who is also on…
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Iran sends MPs to visit Lebanon, Syria
Alaeddin Boroujerdi An Iranian parliamentary delegation led by Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the head of Parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission, has embarked on a…
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World Baha’i group asks Iran to probe murder
Attaollah Rezvani The International Baha’i community has called on Iran to immediately investigate the murder of Iranian Baha,i citizen Attaollah Rezvani in the city…
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Iranian university students to get new political freedom
Jafar Tofighi, the caretaker of Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, has announced that in the new academic year, no student will be…
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Website lists hardships of Evin’s female political prisoners
Iranian opposition website reports that a majority of female political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison are being denied any furloughs. Kaleme website reports that…
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Ahmadinejad administration accused of “illegal” money transfer
Akbar Torkan Akbar Torkan, the chief aide to President Hassan Rohani, says it was “illegal” for 160 billion rials to be transferred from presidential…
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Hundreds call for university president to be fired
Hundreds of students and alumni of Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran have called for the removal of university president Sadreddin Shariati. In a letter…
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Beheshti lawyer to fight “involuntary” manslaughter charge
Sattar Beheshti Close to a year after jailed blogger Sattar Beheshti died in custody, the accused in the case has been charged with involuntary…
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U.S. report calculates cost of sanctions to Iran
Iran cannot access close to 50 percent of its oil revenues, according to a report by a senior U.S. official provided to the Associated…
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Khatami renews call for release of opposition leaders
Mohammad Khatami Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has once again called for the release of political prisoners. Kaleme reports that Khatami told a meeting…

