Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 03 – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad handpicked an old-time colleague from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to head the country’s anti-contraband task force.

Iran Focus: London, Nov. 05 – The decision by Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to nominate a brigadier general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) with virtually no experience in the oil and financial sectors as the country’s new Oil Minister will give the IRGC unlimited access to an unrivalled source of revenues, boosting its already significant clout.

Iran Focus: London, Nov. 05 – Officials working in Iran’s state television and radio broadcasting corporation, IRIB, are anxiously seeking clarification for why one of its international networks, Jam-e Jam, has stopped broadcasting into the United States.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 05 – Clashes between people and State Security Forces (SSF) in the oil-rich city of Ahwaz, south-western Iran, erupted on Friday as police launched a crackdown on a peaceful demonstration by close to 1,000 ethnic Arabs.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – Turkey’s Defence Minister General Hilmi Özkök has called for a review of Ankara’s ties with Iran citing Tehran’s nuclear threat, several dailies have reported.