Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Heavy clashes which
broke out between protesters and State Security Forces on Wednesday in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, northwest Iran,
have claimed 11 lives, according to Kurdish sources.
Witnesses reported that agents of the SSF fired lethal rounds on protestors from helicopters in the air.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was confirmed on Wednesday as the sixth President of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad, a former Revolutionary Guards commander and mayor of Teheran who won the June elections amid allegations of massive electoral fraud, has pledged to restore an “Islamic government” in Iran, implying that the previous administrations of Ali-Akbar Hashemi …

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Facing a barrage of international criticism, Iran announced that it would start work
at its uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, central Iran, early next week, backtracking on earlier threats to restart the
program on Wednesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – Iran’s State Security forces opened lethal fire on protesters in the western town of Saqqez from a military helicopter on Wednesday, eye-witnesses reported. Anti-government protesters set fire to the town’s principal prayer hall and vehicles belonging to the police on Wednesday morning.

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 03 – The managing director of Iran’s state-run news agency on Wednesday stepped down from his position less than two weeks after he was summoned to court for questioning after Iran’s new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s campaign team filed a complaint against the agency for biased reporting against the conservative camp
during the June election campaign.