Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 11 – A powerful earthquake struck the Iranian island of Qeshm on the southern coast on Wednesday leaving at least seven people dead, state media reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 – Iranian authorities have hanged a man in Arak, central Iran, state media reported on Tuesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 01 - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday appointed a new commander for the Islamic Republic's regular air force.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 01 – Iranian authorities have hanged a man in Noshahr, northern Iran, state media reported on Sunday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 28 – Iranian authorities hanged five people, including a woman, in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 28 - Iran's state media is claiming that a senior aide to hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has held a "cyber debate" with a U.S. State Department official.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 27 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel on Tuesday of creating new diseases to make money from pharmaceutical products that cure them, state media reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 26 - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday appointed Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan as the new commander of the Islamic Republic's regular army ground forces.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 – A senior official from the United Nations nuclear watchdog is holding talks with Iranian officials in Tehran.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 17 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will make a state visit to Iran within the next 10 days, Iranian state media reported.

Iran Focus: Ankara, Aug. 14 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Istanbul on Thursday to hold talks with senior Turkish officials.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 14 - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki held telephone conversations on Wednesday with his Chinese, German, and Russian counterparts.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 - Iran may drastically reform its currency by removing three zeroes off the Rial to combat the inflation rate which currently stands at more than 26 percent.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 – Iran’s Foreign Minister has strongly criticised the police in Saudi Arabia for fingerprinting Iranians including a senior aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cancelled his visit to the country’s central province of Markazi.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 06 – Recent comments by senior officials in Tehran show a hardening of Iran’s attitude in the face of domestic and international pressures, according to some Iran analysts.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 – At least 19 people were killed and 31 others injured when a truck slammed into a passenger bus on a highway between the southern Iranian cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirjan on Sunday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 01 - Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad will visit Tehran on August 9 to hold talks with senior Iranian officials.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 - Iran’s acting Economy Minister said on Thursday that trade between Iran and South Africa could reach an annual level of $10 billion.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 30 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday presented to the country’s Majlis (parliament) his nominations for the vacant cabinet post's of interior, economy and transport ministers. Ali Kordan, earmarked for the key portfolio of Interior Minister, has a long history in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Iran Focus has learnt.

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 29 – The European Union criticised Iran on Tuesday for mass executing 29 people earlier this week, describing the action as an "affront to human dignity".

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 29 – Three people were hanged on Tuesday in central and south-eastern Iran, state media reported, the latest in the spiralling number of executions in the Islamic Republic.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 28 – Residents of the central Iranian city of Arak, famous as the site of a heavy-water reactor the authorities are building, held a protest last week against the government's suspected nuclear weapons projects, Iran Focus has learnt.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 - Iran hanged 29 people in the capital city Tehran on Sunday, state television reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 26 - Iran announced on Saturday that it would execute 30 people in the next 24 hours.

Iran Focus: Rome, Jul. 24 - Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi received strong backing at the Italian Parliament on Wednesday, in a move which drew quick rebuke from Tehran. On the second day of her visit at the invitation of a number of members of the Italian Parliament and the Friends of a Free Iran group in that country, Rajavi addressed a meeting of dozens of parliamentarians.

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 22 – Iran is arming Shiite militia in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan, Britain's Defence Secretary said on Monday.

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 22 – Britain on Monday accused Iran of stepping up human rights violations.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 - Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has appointed Hassan Qashqavi as the new spokesman of his ministry, state television reported.

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 21 - Coalition forces captured a suspected "Hezbolla Brigades" propaganda specialist with ties to Iran early Monday morning in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad, the United States military announced.