Iran Focus: London, Nov. 12 – Photos of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and defeated presidential contender and former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani standing side by side and shaking hands are causing a stir among Iran analysts who suspect it was a deliberate gesture of national unity among senior figures of the religious theocracy.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 12 – Capital flight in Iran over the past fortnight reached its highest recorded level since the 1979 Islamic revolution, prompting financial advisors to the hard-line government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to call for a temporary suspension of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), according to market investors.

Iran Focus: London, UK, Nov. 10 – Iran’s notorious secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), is expanding its operations in Britain, an Iranian opposition figure said on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 12 – A 27-year old man from the central city of Isfahan was hanged to death, a state-run daily reported on Saturday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 11 – The radical group Ansar-e Hezbollah pledged to Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that it would root out the “virus” of mal-veiled women.