Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 17 – An Iranian man arrested for taking part in an anti-government demonstration in Tehran on Tuesday died as he was trying to escape from his torturers at a police station, a government source in the Iranian capital told Iran Focus. Ehsan Karavi was arrested during a protest by thousands of people in support of political prisoners outside Tehran University on Tuesday.

VOA News: Kurdish and Iranian opposition reports from northern Iran say thousands of Kurds have rallied this week in the Iranian city Mahabad, to protest the killing of a Kurdish activist by Iranian para-militaries. The reports are displayed on Kurdish web sites and in the opposition Iran Focus.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 16 – Iran’s new police chief today called on the forces under his command to deal “decisively with criminals” and use live bullets if necessary. “When a policeman is sent on a mission, his mind must be focused entirely on getting the job done”, Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam said in the first flag-raising ceremony he attended after moving to his new command last week.

Reuters: Seventeen people were killed on Saturday when a minibus slammed head-on into a truck in northern Iran, a senior police officer said. Mohammad Rouyanian, head of
Iran’s road police, told state television the vehicles collided
after the minibus tried to overtake a tractor near Firouzkouh,
130 km east of Tehran.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 16 – At least 100 demonstrators were arrested and 60 buses damaged in clashes that erupted Saturday after a football match in Iran’s second largest city. Security forces and young people clashed over a large area of the city of Mashad after a football match between Saba Battery and Abu-Moslem football clubs.

AFP: Iran’s hardline poll watchdog insisted Saturday that the outcome of last month’s presidential election was final after reformist Interior Minister Abdolvahed Moussavi-Lari said he was ready to order a partial recount. “The election is a finished matter,” Guardians Council spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told the student news agency ISNA.

AFP: Iran’s spy chief on Saturday warned the country’s nuclear scientists against “traps” laid by Israeli and American intelligence agencies.
“Iranian scientists must beware of enemy plots,” Intelligence Minister Ali Yunessi was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. “Americans and Israelis are trying to approach (them) through different means.”