Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 10 – Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister disavowed an article in the Wednesday edition of the Financial Times which had quoted him as saying that there was a possibility that Iran and the United States could cooperate for developing an “exit strategy” for foreign forces from Iraq.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 10 – Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s promises of economic reform in Iran have failed to materialise into raising the standard of living for most ordinary Iranians in the 21 months since he came to power in August 2005.

Iran Focus: London, May 10 – U.S.-led forces in Iraq killed three “secret cell terrorists” and detained four others on Thursday during raids in the Baghdad slum Sadr City targeting a “terrorist network” which is believed to be smuggling roadside bombs to Iraq from neighbouring Iran, the military said in a statement.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 10 – French oil giant Total will continue its activities in Iran’s South Pars gas field to produce Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), the company’s representative in Iran, Pierre Fabiani, told the state-run news agency ISNA.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 10 – An Iranian military aircraft crashed on Wednesday in south-west Iran, killing the pilot, the official news agency IRNA reported.