Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 20 – A study last year revealed that fourteen percent of children in Iran work to provide income for their families. The following are photos of children forced to work taken by a state-run news agency.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 19 – A senior Iranian cleric’s call on Saturday for a purge of “anti-Islamic and atheist” university professors is being seen in the Iranian capital as a clear signal that the massive purges launched by the dominant hard-line faction are now moving on to universities.

Iran Focus: Baghdad, Nov. 19 – A visit to Iran by Iraq’s top security official and his profuse praise of the Iranian government’s policy towards its western neighbour have aroused serious questions over the war-torn country’s security policies, according to Iraqi analysts and intellectuals.

Iran Focus: London, Nov. 19 – Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr is running six other torture chambers similar to the notorious detention centre discovered north of Baghdad earlier this week, a senior Interior Ministry official who stepped down from his positition said on Saturday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 – Iran’s top nuclear negotiator and national security chief Ali Larijani warned European Union nations that Tehran would “follow up different methods” other than talks in seeking a solution to the international deadlock over the country’s nuclear weapons program if a resolution to the crisis was not reached soon.