Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – Several hundred radical Islamists from the para-military Bassij force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards set fire to French flags outside the embassy of France in Tehran on Tuesday, amid chants of “Death to France”. The militants, who described themselves as “members of student organisation of Bassij”, later demonstrated outside the embassies of Britain and Germany, France’s two other European partners in the two-year talks with the Islamic Republic on Iran’s nuclear activities.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – The commander of Iran’s “Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison” – who is a general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) – vowed that his suicide volunteers will destroy United States’ interests all over the world in retaliation to any attempt by the U.S. to hit Iran’s nuclear installations.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – Several hundred members of Iran’s para-military Bassij forces in universities demonstrated outside the embassies of the three main European powers in Tehran on Tuesday afternoon as the Islamic Republic continues its campaign to force the Europeans to retreat from their position on Iran’s nuclear activities.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – Iran’s new hard-line secretary general of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and chief nuclear negotiator said on Tuesday that the United States’ strategy vis-à-vis Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons program was not to wage a war, but to force the Islamic Republic to “commit suicide”.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – There has been an
outbreak of cholera in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, a committee in defence of political prisoners said on Tuesday. Numerous cases of the deadly virus, which has recently killed at least 10 people in Iran, have been reported in wards seven, eight, and nine of the prison, according to the Student Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners.