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Two powerful earthquakes have killed at least 220 people and injured around 1 500 in north-west Iran, Iran’s state news agency has reported.
Iranians wrapped up a parliamentary election likely to reinforce Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s power over rival hardliners.
Iran’s top leader told the opposition on Friday they would face a harsh response if they drew their ”swords” against the Islamic Republic.
Mohammad Khatami said on Wednesday trial confessions by moderates accused of fomenting post-election unrest were invalid.
A senior Iranian official said Tehran was ready for negotiations with the West on its disputed nuclear programme, according to reports on Tuesday.
The West must be held to account for stoking Iran’s post-election unrest, the president said on Sunday, as a third mass trial got under way.
Iran’s speaker of Parliament on Wednesday rejected as ”baseless” an opposition leader’s accusation that moderates had been raped in jail.
Iran put dozens of moderates and a French citizen on trial on Saturday for taking part in unrest after a disputed June presidential vote.
At least 17 people were killed and 23 injured when a passenger aircraft veered off the runway and hit a wall while landing at Mashhad airport.
A Tupolev passenger aircraft crashed in north-western Iran on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board, Iranian media reported.
A security crackdown appears to have quelled street rallies against Iran’s disputed poll, but the leadership faced a new challenge on Wednesday.
Authorities said they would teach a lesson to ”rioters” in the worst unrest to befall the country since 1979.
Iranians began voting on Friday in a closely-fought election which pits hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against a former prime minister.
Iran launched a missile with a range of 2 000km on Wednesday and the president said the Islamic state could send any attacker ”to hell”.
Journalist Roxana Saberi flew to Europe early on Friday, days after being released from a Tehran jail after being acquitted on charges of spying.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that US President Barack Obama’s offer of better ties was just a ”slogan”.
Iran is running more than 5 000 centrifuges for enriching uranium, its president was quoted as saying on Saturday.
Iran will not give up its rights in the face of Western pressure, its supreme leader said on Sunday, two days after major powers said they would make a new offer to convince…
Conservatives won a majority in Iran’s parliamentary vote, state television said on Sunday, but the new assembly may still give President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a tougher time ahead…
