Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 28 – Agents of Iran’s public prosecutor’s office and plainclothes policemen conducted a raid on Thursday morning on the home of a lawyer representing the family of murdered Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi.
The raid on the home of Abdolfattah Soltani was carried out on the orders of Tehran’s Public Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi.

Iran Focus: Paris, Jul. 28 – Iran is secretly acquiring a rare form of ultra-strong steel to use as casing for nuclear bombs it is manufacturing, an Iranian opposition figure said Thursday at a press conference in Paris. Mohammad Mohaddessin, who chairs the foreign affairs committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said that Tehran was “trying to obtain maraging steel both through smuggling from abroad and by producing it inside the country”.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Republic’s top statesmen met behind closed doors to discuss the country’s uranium enrichment program, the spokesman for the
Supreme National Security Council announced Wednesday.

Iran Focus: Paris, Jul. 27 – France cautioned Iran on Wednesday that there would be “negative” consequences if Tehran went ahead with its threat to resume its controversial nuclear activities that had been suspended for the past several months. French Foreign Ministry deputy spokeswoman, Cecile Pozzo di Borgo, said, “Iran knows the consequences if it …

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 – Clashes continued for the fourth successive day between government forces and protesters in the southern city of Ahwaz, eye-witnesses reported.
The city’s local state-run radio urged residents to stay at home as security forces imposed curfew on the areas of the city inhabited by ethnic Arabs.