Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 – Some 1,459 guns have been confiscated over the past nine months in Kermanshah province (western Iran), according to the province’s chief of State Security Forces (SSF). “The confiscated weapons along with those caught smuggling them have been apprehended and will be …

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 – More than 50,000 people have been arrested in Greater Tehran in the past nine months, according to the head of the Office to Combat Narcotics in Greater Tehran. “A large proportion of those in custody, who comprise people from different sectors of society, are between 25 and 30 years of age”, Major Ghodratollah Mahmoudi said in an interview with a state-run news agency
on Wednesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 – There are at least 150,000 drug addicts in the city of Mashad (northeast Iran), according to the head of the city’s Central Medical Bureau.
“According to recent statistics there are 150,000 drug addicts
at present in Mashad”, Rajab Hedayatnia said.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 – An Iranian agent was arrested in Kuwait in connection with the latest spate of Al-Qaeda-related attacks in the Middle East. Sawa Radio reported that the unnamed individual was arrested by Kuwaiti security forces after recent intelligence implicated him as a cell in communication with the Al-Qaeda network with prior information on the attacks in Saudi Arabia.

Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jan. 13 – The European Parliament adopted a resolution by majority vote today condemning human rights violations in Iran in the second such move over the past six months. The toughly-worded resolution denounced practices such as execution of juveniles and stoning carried
out by the Iranian regime.