Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 01 – The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the clergy-dominated regime’s elite military force, hailed on Tuesday the anniversary of the takeover of the United States embassy in Tehran and predicted that “it will not take long before we shall witness a world without the illegal regime” of Israel.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 01 – Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security announced on Tuesday that several individuals involved in two bombings in the mainly Arab-populated south-western province of Khuzestan last month had been arrested.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 01 – The Chief of Staff of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday that the destruction of “Zionism” would be similar to the downfall of Communism in the 1990s, adding that the way has been paved for this.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 01 – Iran’s top national security official and a senior aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened on Monday to speed up resumption of uranium enrichment if the West referred Iran’ suspected nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 01 – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi defended threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against the state of Israel as the policy of the Islamic Republic, state-run dailies reported on Tuesday.