Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 01 – A semi-official Iranian daily close to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lambasted French President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday for “meddling” inside the country’s internal affairs, two days after he called on Tehran to return to the negotiation table and suspend its suspected nuclear weapons activities or face the threat of having its nuclear file hauled before the United
Nations Security Council.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 01 – Parviz Davoodi is set to
become the First vice-President in the cabinet of Iran’s newly-installed hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according
to a state-owned news site.
The official announcement of Davoodi’s appointment is expected to take place within the next 48 hours, sources close to the president said.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 31 – Iran is building a dam which once completed will destroy the 2,500-year-old historic ruins of tomb of the first Achaemenian king of ancient Persia.

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 31 – Iran Focus has learnt from a senior officer in Iran’s regular armed forces that the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has decided to appoint Revolutionary Guards Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani as the new commander in chief of the regular armed forces.

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 31 – Iran’s new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is planning to woo Iranian exiles living in the United States in his upcoming trip to New York for the opening ceremony of the United Nations’ General Assembly.