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.

Iran Focus: London, Nov. 18 – A top official in Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) was running the secret Iraqi Interior Ministry prison in Baghdad which was discovered this week to be one of many suspected torture centre across the country, according to an Arabic-language website.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 19 – Iran’s former President Mohammad Khatami, a mid-ranking cleric dubbed a “moderate” by the West, defended the hard-line stance of his successor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against the state of Israel, a semi-official daily wrote in a front-page headline on Saturday.