Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 – One person was hanged and 13 others were imprisoned in West Azerbaijan Province, northwest Iran, as part of new wave of crackdown on dissent which began last week, Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) announced on Tuesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 – A young man was hanged in public in the southern town of Kazeroun, in Fars Province, for a crime he had committed when he was a minor, a state-run daily reported on Tuesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – A young Iranian mother was sentenced to execution in the town of Langaroud, northern Iran, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Monday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – A semi-official Iranian daily has written in its Tuesday edition that 10 member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are opposed to the call by the European trio of Britain, France, and Germany, as well as the United States to send Tehran’s nuclear file before the United Nations Security Council for possible further action.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the head of the country’s judiciary to deal “decisively” with “elements creating disruption in society” and sentence them to “the most severe punishment that God has prescribed”, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami wrote in its Tuesday edition.