Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 09 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has appointed the country’s new ambassador to Hungary, the official news agency reported on Wednesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 09 – Iran is set to manufacture a new line of Fajr-3 planes, state media reported.

Iran Focus: Baghdad, Aug. 09 – The offices of a prominent Iraqi cleric vehemently opposed to the theocratic government of Iran came under attack by unknown assailants, an Iraqi daily reported earlier this week.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 09 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered on Tuesday Muslims across the world to support the Lebanese militia Hezbollah in its ongoing battle against Israel.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 09 – A young man was hanged in public in the northern Iranian town of Babol, a government-run news agency reported.