Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 05 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told some 100 Iranian lawmakers that the Islamic Republic’s key to obtaining its nuclear “rights” in the face of Western pressures was to pursue a policy of absolute steadfastness.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 05 – Iranian state television reported on Wednesday that Tehran had successfully test-fired a new long-range cruise missile in the Persian Gulf.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 05 – Iran’s Interior Ministry has sent a statement to state-run press saying that it was unable to confirm the deaths of twelve Iranian dissidents belonging to a group that took responsibility for an armed attack in March on a convoy of government officials in Iran’s south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 05 – The Supreme Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) declared on Wednesday that the week-long naval war games in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman by his forces serve as a warning to the United States “not to meddle in Iran’s internal affairs”, state television reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 05 – Iran claimed on Wednesday that its security forces had killed twelve Iranian dissidents belonging to a group that took responsibility for an armed attack in March on a convoy of government officials in Iran’s south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan.