Iran Focus: London, Aug. 24 – The new commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Forces was involved in terrorist activities in Lebanon during the 1980s, analysts say. Revolutionary Guards brigadier general Ahmad Kazemi was appointed on Saturday by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to head the IRGC Ground Forces. Kazemi closely worked with the new Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar in Lebanon.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – There are 30 prisoners on death row in a prison in the town of Arak, central Iran, according to the area’s Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor. Hamzeh Pakbin said that the prisoners had all been sentenced to hanging for a variety of crimes, local newspapers reported on Wednesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – Analysts and defectors from Iran’s booming arms industry believe that the appointment as Defence Minister of an ultra-Islamist regarded as the father of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ operations beyond the country’s borders could have a direct impact on the supply of sophisticated weapons and bombs to terrorist groups operating in Iraq.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – A seventeen-year-old
musician in Iran is facing imminent execution in public after his death sentence was upheld by Iran’s hard-line Supreme Court,
a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.
The teenage boy, identified by his first name Sina, was found
guilty of murdering another individual after a dispute over
cannabis last October, the daily Etemaad reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – Iran’s clergy-dominated Supreme Court has given the green light for the hanging of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Tehran, a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.