Iran Focus: Baghdad, Dec. 20 More than a dozen Iraqi 
Washington Post: Federal and state financial regulators announced yesterday that they are levying $80 million in fines against ABN Amro Bank NV, a giant Dutch lender, for violating money-laundering laws and sanctions restricting dealings with Iran and Libya. 
Reuters: An Iranian of the Bahai faith has died in his jail cell of unknown causes, 10 years after being imprisoned by Tehran for abandoning Islam, the Bahai International Community said on Monday. 
Reuters: France, Britain and Germany resume low-level talks with Iran this week about its nuclear programme, but EU diplomats expressed little optimism that talks with Iran’s hardline government would yield a breakthrough. 
AP: Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned Western music from Iran’s radio and TV stations, reviving one of the harshest cultural decrees from the early days of 1979 Islamic Revolution. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 Authorities hanged a young man in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison, a state-run daily reported on Monday.Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 Authorities hanged a young man in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison, a state-run daily reported on Monday.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, several of his ministers and senior military and government figures attended a special service at the Presidential Office in Tehran on Monday to honour a top presidential bodyguard, who died in an ambush during Ahmadinejads visit to south-eastern parts of the country, the government-owned ISNA news agency reported.Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, several of his ministers and senior military and government figures attended a special service at the Presidential Office in Tehran on Monday to honour a top presidential bodyguard, who died in an ambush during Ahmadinejads visit to south-eastern parts of the country, the government-owned ISNA news agency reported.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 A powerful cleric rejected the notion of women taking up posts in the assembly of theologians who choose the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic.
