Iran Focus: London, Jul. 25 – Defeated presidential candidate Hojjatoleslam Mehdi Karroubi resigned from his post as Secretary-General of the Militant Clergymen Association and left the clerical group, the state-run news agency ISNA reported today.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 25 – Iran’s state-run media have been giving prominence to India’s opposition and newspapers criticising the country’s prime minister for his remarks on an eight-billion-dollar pipeline project to join Iran’s natural gas fields to Pakistan and India. During an official visit to the United States, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the Washington Post on Wednesday, “As far as the pipeline is concerned, only preliminary discussions have taken place.

AFP: Four Iranians who tried to reach Britain aboard an inflatable raft were intercepted early Monday by French police near the Channel port of Calais, officials said.
The four men, aged 17 to 32, were found on a raft made for
just two people, police said.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 25 – Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, reported disturbances in the north-western Kurdish town of Sardasht, Western Azerbaijan, on Sunday evening.
“Gatherings and disturbances took place on Sunday evening in the border town of Sardasht. The town returned to normal after State Security Forces intervened”, the news agency said in a dispatch on Monday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 25 – Clashes erupted between protesters and security forces in the southern city of Ahwaz Sunday night after the authorities tried to prevent anti-government demonstrations from escalating. A number of police vehicles and state banks were set on fire, according to eye-witness reports.