Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 30 – A new wave of crackdown was launched on “trouble-makers” in Tehran, state-run dailies reported a senior police commander in the Iranian capital as saying on Wednesday.

Iran Focus: London, Nov. 30 – The White House released Wednesday a report about the United States’ strategy in Iraq in which it accused Iran and Syria of providing comfort and support to insurgents.

Iran Focus: London, Nov. 30 – With the parliamentary elections in Iraq less than three weeks away, several Shiite groups have started to claim that the revered twelfth Imam in Shiite Islam has guided Iraqis to vote for their candidate, according to an Iraqi cleric from Najaf.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 30 – Iran’s Interior Minister censured the United Nations refugee agency for its criticism of the Islamic Republic of its treatment of refugees.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 30 – There were more than 420 recorded political protests in Iran over the past month, according to an Iran Focus tally.