Iran Focus: London, Mar. 01 – The deputy governor of the Iraqi province of Saladin, where the holy city of Samarra is situated, said preliminary investigation was pointing to Iran’s role in the bombing of the city’s revered Shiite shrine last week.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 01 – The Supreme Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi appointed on Wednesday a senior commander in the Bassij as the new head of the IRGC’s secretive Ansar-ol-Mahdi Protection Corps.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 01 – Iran has executed three Arab activists in the south-western oil city of Ahwaz, according to local dissidents reached by telephone.

Iran Focus: London, Mar. 01 – A state-organised group which avowedly trains suicide bombers against “Western infidels and Zionists” has launched a new website to recruit volunteers, Iran Focus has learnt.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28 – Iran announced on Tuesday that it would not abandon uranium enrichment on its own soil and its quest to acquire nuclear fuel cycle.