Iran Focus: London, Oct. 01 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened on Saturday to hold back Iran’s oil supply to the international community and limit inspections of the country’s nuclear sites if the West referred the Islamic Republic’s nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 01 – The commandant of Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) announced that cracking down on “trouble-makers” in society was the most important task of the country’s police force and vowed to root out “seditious elements in society”, a semi-official daily reported on Saturday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 30 – Iran’s former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani angrily warned the West on Friday not to try to stop Iran in its tracks as the Islamic Republic
forges ahead with its nuclear program.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 30 – In an unexpected turn of events, the Chief Prosecutor of Iran’s south-western province
of Khuzestan accused Canada and the United Kingdom on Friday of supporting and training individuals that carried out a spate of bombings in the provincial capital of Ahwaz in June.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 30 – The former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and secretary general
of the powerful State Expediency Council said in a statement that appeared on his own Persian-language website that Iran should resume suspended nuclear work.