Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 14 – Iran’s paramilitary police have launched a massive crackdown in Iranian towns and cities to prevent people from turning Tuesday evening’s annual “fire festival” into organised anti-government protests.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 14 – Young people set fire to pictures of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, according to dissidents in the Iranian capital who sent a photo of their activities to Iran Focus.

Iran Focus: London, Mar. 14 – Iran threatened on Tuesday that it would revise its international oil contracts if the United Nations Security Council took action against it for violating its international obligations regarding its nuclear program.

Iran Focus: London, Mar. 14 – Iranian authorities have imposed a de facto martial law in several volatile cities in the north-western province of Kurdistan as restive youths used the occasion of Iran’s traditional “fire festival” to hold anti-government protests, residents told Iran Focus by telephone on Tuesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 14 – Despite a massive crackdown to prevent this year’s “fire festival” from turning into scenes of anti-governments protests, young people are taking to streets across Iran to defy the government ban and celebrate the last Tuesday of the Persian year with a big bang, Iran Focus has learnt.