Iran Focus: Tehran/London, Nov. 03 – Iran hastily organised a demonstration outside the Italian embassy in Tehran on the same day that top Italian lawmakers from both government and opposition parties are lining up outside the Iranian embassy in Rome to condemn “incendiary” remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said last week that “Israel must be wiped off the map”.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 03 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi will be fired very shortly, Iran Focus has learned.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 03 – Radical fanatics are to sign up for suicide operations in central Tehran on Friday, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan, Mehr News Agency, which is run by the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, announced on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 03 – Iran blasted Canada’s “violation of human rights”, accusing the North American state of practicing torture, during a session of the United Nations social and humanitarian committee, the state-run news agency IRNA reported on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 02 – Thousands of hard-line supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad converged on Monday at the site of the former American embassy in Tehran, chanting for the destruction of the United States, Britain, and Israel, in a state-organised demonstration held to commemorate the November 4, 1979 seizure of the embassy compound by radical Islamists.