Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30 – A senior Iranian cleric declared during his Friday prayers sermon in Tehran that neighbouring Iraq would end up under Islamic rule.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30 – The results of Iraq’s recent parliamentary elections were “the sweet fruits of three years of revolutionary diplomacy in Iraq” by the Islamic Republic, a top Iranian official told a website run by officials in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30 – Iran maintained its right to enrich uranium on its own soil as an underlying element to any proposal from Russia to end the international deadlock over the country’s suspected nuclear weapons program.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30 – A riot broke out in the
Iranian capital, Tehran, after a football match, leaving dozens
of buses badly damaged.

Iran Focus: Baghdad, Dec. 30 – An agent of Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) died while in detention in Iraq, according to an Iraqi television report.