Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 20 - More than 400 tons of hoarded rice has been discovered in north-western Iran.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 20 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the state-owned Bank Refah to change its name.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 18 - Iran’s ambassador to Moscow said Tehran has no reason to require a “security guarantee” which Russia had urged the world's major powers to consider offering to it as part of a package to lure Iran from pressing ahead with its controversial nuclear work, state media reported on Saturday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 18 - Iran’s ambassador to Muscat met with Oman’s Tourism Minister on Saturday to discuss future cooperation between the nations, state media reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 16 - An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale jolted parts of northern Iran on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry has warned the United States to recognise Tehran's nuclear ambitions and not to create an “unwise political atmosphere”, state media reported on Wednesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 - Iran criticised the European Union over a statement it issued condemning comments made by Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against the state of Israel, state media reported on Wednesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 - Iran’s hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has replaced the country's Interior Minister, state media reported on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 14 - Iran’s Energy Minister will visit Pakistan this month to hold talks over increasing the Islamic Republic’s energy supply to Pakistan, state media reported on Wednesday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 12 – Iranian authorities have hanged five men including a teenager in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, state media reported on Monday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 11 – A "technical delegation" from the United Nations nuclear watchdog will told a new round of talks with Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday, the official news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 10 - Iran has presented a package of nuclear proposals to the West in a bid to counter a similar offer to be made by major world powers to Tehran to convince it to abandon its controversial nuclear activities.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 09 – Iranian authorities have hanged four men in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.

Iran Focus: London, May 09 - The international press freedoms watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged Iranian authorities earlier this week to end a recent spate of systematic attacks against women’s rights publications.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 09 - Iran’s ambassador to Moscow has told Russian media that no incentive could ever be sufficient to make Iran relinquish its "nuclear rights", Iranian state media reported on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 09 - An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale jolted parts of southern Iran on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 02 - The Ukrainian ambassador to Iran said Thursday that trade between the two countries reached $600m in the last year, Iranian state media reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 01 - The Iranian government’s economic committee, tasked with drawing up monetary policy for the nation, has called for bank interest rates to be kept at 12%, state media reported on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May. 01 - Iran’s embassy in Baku on Wednesday rejected claims that its ambassador had been summoned by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, state media reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 30 – A top military commander who has been responsible for recruitment of suicide bombers in Iran’s armed forces said on Wednesday the Islamic Republic’s Air Force was “capable” and “strong enough” to bring down “enemy” warplanes from the sky.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 30 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic would resist United Nations Security Council sanctions over its controversial nuclear activities.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 29 – A tornado which struck a village in north-west Iran last week left at least three women dead and three others injured, Iran Focus has learnt.

Iran Focus: Kermanshah, Iran, Apr. 29 - A group of retired teachers have protested outside government offices in the province of Kermanshah, western Iran, demanding their overdue pensions.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 28 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday travelled to Pakistan and held talks on Tehran-Islamabad bilateral ties with senior Pakistani officials including President Pervez Musharraf.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 27 – The Secretary of Russia’s Security Council travelled to Tehran late on Sunday to hold talks with senior Iranian officials.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 24 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Pakistan next week to hold talks with senior officials on Tehran-Islamabad bilateral ties, state media reported on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 24 – Iranian authorities have hanged five men in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 19 - Iran’s Interior Minister denied claims that he is due to be replaced after Iran’s upcoming second round of elections, state media reported on Saturday.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 19 - Iran’s Minister of Industries and Mines said on Saturday that international sanctions had no effect on the progress of the Islamic Republic’s industries, state media reported.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 19 - Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has appointed Hossein Samsami as acting minister for economic affairs and finance, the state broadcasting company said in a report on its website.