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/ 18 November 2011
The blast at the al-Ghadir missile base at Bid Ganeh was so powerful it rattled windows 50 kilometres away in Tehran.
Tehran says the suspect in a plot to assassinate a Saudi envoy in the US belongs to an Iranian dissident group the state regards as its "sworn enemy".
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/ 30 September 2011
Bisi Alimi is among the founding members of a new international pressure group formed to tackle the rise in homophobic violence.
Iranian security officials used batons and teargas to disperse thousands of protesters at a silent rally held in central Tehran.
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/ 24 January 2011
Iran has hanged almost 50 people during the past three weeks, according to human rights groups.