Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 The showing of a playstaged by Irans leading playwright and theatre director came
to an abrupt end on Friday night on the orders of the Islamic Republics authorities. A Play Portraying the Passions of Master Navid Makan and His Wife Engineer Rokhshid Farzin, written and directed by Bahram Beizaii, debuted in Tehrans …


Iran Focus: London, Jul. 30 An officer in Irans armed forces and an Iranian soldier were arrested together close to the southern Iraq city of Basra early Thursday morning, a London-based Arabic daily wrote in its Friday edition. Border guards detained on Thursday an Iranian officer and a soldier on Iraqi soil 30 kilometres northeast of Basra, one of the biggest southern cities of this country, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat wrote, quoting a commander in Iraqs border patrol.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 A human rights lawyer representing the family of slain Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi turned up unexpectedly at the Tehran Bar Association on Saturday and began an indefinite sit-in, after police raided his home and tried to arrest him. Abdolfattah Soltanis troubles began when he publicly accused Tehrans Revolutionary Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi on Monday of involvement in the July 2003 murder of Zahra Kazemi, …
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 Iran will put two employees of its nuclear establishment on trial behind closed doors on espionage charges on August 2 and August 20 in Tehrans Revolutionary Court, state-run newspapers reported on Saturday. Judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimi-Rad announced in late June that the trial of the nuclear spies was postponed, because one of the accused was ill and had to undergo surgery.
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jul. 30 Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said he had complained to Iranian leaders in a recent visit to Tehran that Iran continued to meddle in the affairs of its neighbour. Speaking on Al-Iraqiya television on Thursday night, Zebari said, I recently visited Iran with Prime Minister [Ibrahim al-Jaafari”>, where we discussed these issues with Iranian officials. 