Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04 – The commander of Iran’s State Security Forces in the city of Orumieh, northwest Iran, threatened on Sunday that police would crackdown “forcefully and decisively” on women who were not properly veiled.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry and senior officials reacted harshly to the decision by the United States not to grant visas to senior Iranian officials to travel to New York in mid-September to take part in an international parliamentary meeting.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 03 – Some 2,000 people – families and friends of victims of one of the worst prison massacres in Iran’s contemporary history – gathered on Friday at a cemetery south-east of the capital to commemorate the anniversary of the brutal death of their loved ones in the summer of 1988, an Iran Focus reporter witnessed.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 – A radical Islamist weekly close to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad praised suicide operations against the United States and Israel as the correct strategy to carry forward the message of the Islamic Republic, as advocated by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 – Iran’s newly-installed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his goal was to turn Iran into an Islamic state and an Islamic society, state-run dailies reported on Saturday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 – The Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor in the western province of West Azerbaijan said 48 Kurds have been indicted for taking part in recent anti-government demonstrations and clashes, state-run dailies reported on Saturday.