Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 05 An Iranian couple accusedof murder were hanged today at dawn in the main prison in Isfahan (central Iran), according to a state-run daily.
The husband and wife had been found guilty of the murder of an engineer after a scuffle at his house in 1999, the Iran daily wrote.


Reuters: Austrian prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether Iran’s president-elect was involved in the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish leader in Vienna, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. A ministry spokesman confirmed that prosecutors had started a probe by asking the ministry’s anti-terrorism task force to investigate the case, but declined to provide any details.
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 05 A number of Austrian corporations have called on their government not to pursue the case against Irans new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, following revelations that he took part in the assassination of prominent Kurdish exiles, on the grounds that it would undermine their multi-million dollar business deals with the Islamic Republic, according to a state-run Persian website.
AFP: Iran’s hardline parliament voted Sunday to toughen up punishments for alcohol makers and traffickers, just days after their speaker had a run-in with Belgium over booze. Official media said the new law, passed on its first reading, would leave producers and dealers of alcoholic beverages subject to between three months and one year behind bars, 74 lashes and fines.
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 5 Iran Focus has obtained the photograph of Irans President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Ayatollah Khomeinis Chief Representative in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the 1980s. The photograph was taken from footage on Irans state-run news television channel, Shabakeh Khabar. Ayatollah Fazlollah Mahallati was the Islamic Chief Commissar of the Revolutionary Guards.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 A clique of 300 men with family ties have been running the Islamic Republic from the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution until present, according to
AFP: Iranian president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad was directly involved in plotting the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish rebel leader in Vienna, an official of the banned Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran charged Monday. “According to our information, the Iranian government formed three committees for the assassination” of then KDPI leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, party offical Hassan Ashrafi told AFP at his base in neighbouring Iraq. 