Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Seventy-five percent of the ministers and deputy ministers in the government of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad come from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the elite ideological army loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a source close to a state institution told Iran Focus on Sunday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Iran’s para-military policemen paraded seven handcuffed men around for several hours as a way to punish them for “making trouble”, the country’s state-run press reported on Sunday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Iran’s ultra-Islamist group Ansar-e Hezbollah accused the country’s former ambassadors who were recently sacked by hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of financial corruption.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Iran’s hard-line judiciary has summoned a four-year-old child to court to face charges of assault on a ten-year-old, a Tehran-based daily reported on Wednesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Two young men were hanged in a public square in the northern city of Gorgan after being found guilty of lavat, or homosexual relationship, a semi-official daily reported on Sunday.