Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 31 – Some 200 workers from the Miral glass factory held a demonstration and set fire to tyres south of Tehran Saturday morning in protest to their employers’ refusal to pay their overdue salaries.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 31 – The new head of Russia’s nuclear agency will be visiting Iran in February to hold talks with Iranian officials aimed at ending the international standoff over Tehran’s sensitive nuclear work, Iran’s official state news agency reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 31 – A top Iranian official said on Friday that Iran viewed the right to enrich uranium on its own soil as a “red line” not to be crossed during negotiations with the West over its suspected nuclear weapons program.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 29 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appointed two new governors for the western provinces of Kurdistan and Hamedan.

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.