Iran Focus: London, Jun. 01 – The following are extracts of reports gathered from other Iranian news sources:

Reuters: Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi has called on Chinese officials to be impartial in their next 2010 World Cup qualifier, saying poor officiating led to a 1-0 upset loss to hosts China on Monday.

AFP: An Iranian Sunni insurgent group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in Iran last week that killed 25 people, a US group monitoring Islamist websites reported.

AFP: Five people were killed in an arson attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Monday, the second deadly incident there in the run-up to a presidential election this month.

Reuters: A U.S.-based nongovernmental group urged Tehran on Monday to release an employee jailed for nearly a year, appealing for the same "fairness" it showed by freeing Iranian-American reporter Roxana Saberi last month.

UPI:The Iranian air force has launched a large military exercise dubbed "Thunder 88" over its regional waters, official media indicated Monday.

Wall Street Journal: A homemade bomb found aboard an Iranian plane Sunday follows a string of incidents in Iran that are raising concerns about rising sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites ahead of the June 12th presidential election.

AFP: Iranian police have arrested a group of people accused of instigating sectarian violence in the restive southeastern city of Zahedan, a senior police chief was quoted as saying.

AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened Sunday to release internal documents on government affairs going back to the early 1980s in a direct counterattack against challengers who claim his policies have sent Iran into an economic tailspin and undermined the nation's standing in the world.