Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 05 – Iran vowed on Friday to the defy the United Nations Security Council by ignoring resolutions calling on it to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, which the West believes is for building a nuclear bomb.

Iran Focus: London, May 05 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that the Islamic Republic planned to take its uranium enrichment activities to an “industrial scale”.

Iran Focus: London, May 05 – Iranian authorities have launched a crackdown on “mal-veiling” in society and have stepped up arrests of women caught breaching the Islamic dress code.

Iran Focus: London, May 05 – A prominent Iraqi Sunni politician accused Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) of involvement in many assassinations and terrorist attacks in Iraq.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 05 – Iranian authorities flogged 54 people for attending a mixed-sex party in the northern province of Mazandaran, a state-run daily reported.