Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 05 – The advisor to Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) Speaker has announced that the Shiite Lebanese group Hezbollah had seen real growth in recent years and that no international sanctions or pressure would change this.

AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hit out at Western governments on Monday for “tearing apart” Sudan while rejecting the demands of separatists on their own soil, his website said.

AFP: An Azerbaijani border guard was killed in a shoot-out when a group of armed men tried to enter the ex-Soviet state’s territory from neighbouring Iran, officials said on Monday.

AFP: Iran has “seriously warned” India that it could halt crude supplies if New Delhi failed to pay overdue payments hampered by international sanctions against Tehran, the oil ministry said Sunday.

CNN: Iran plans to prosecute 26 current and former American officials, an Iranian lawmaker said Sunday, potentially escalating a tit-for-tat dispute between the two countries.

AFP: Iran is ready if threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz to ships linking the Gulf to international markets, Revolutionary Guards commander General Mohammad Ali Jafari told Mehr news agency Monday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 – Iranian and Russian officials hope to see stability restored to Syria as soon as possible, Iranian state media reported on Monday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 03 – A top Iranian legislator warned on Saturday that Iran would destroy Tel Aviv if Israel “made the mistake” of attacking Iran.