An Iranian court has sentenced to death a man who took part in opposition protests over a disputed election in June, a reformist website said.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that some countries had offered to provide Iran with uranium enriched to 20% for use as nuclear reactor fuel.
US lawmakers are vowing quick action against Iran following a report that weapons experts believe Tehran has the know-how to build an atomic bomb.
Iran agreed in principle on Thursday to export much of its stock of uranium for processing and to open its enrichment plant to UN inspections.
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/ 30 September 2009
Iran broke a transparency law of the UN nuclear watchdog by failing to disclose much earlier a nuclear plant, Mohamed ElBaradei said.
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/ 29 September 2009
Iran will not discuss any issues related to its nuclear ”rights” in its Geneva meeting on Thursday, its nuclear energy agency chief said on Tuesday.
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/ 29 September 2009
World powers will bank on last week’s revelation of a second uranium enrichment plant in Iran for leverage in rare talks set for Thursday.
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/ 29 September 2009
Top diplomats from the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany will meet Iran’s nuclear negotiator on Thursday in Geneva.
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/ 28 September 2009
Iran’s defence minister warned Israel on Monday against launching any attack on the country, saying it would speed up the Jewish state’s own demise.
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/ 28 September 2009
Iran has fired medium-range missiles, reports said on Monday, a day after the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards launched short-rance missiles.
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/ 26 September 2009
Bolstered by other world powers, US President Barack Obama demanded on Friday that Iran come clean about its nuclear programme or face sanctions.
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/ 25 September 2009
Iran has told the UN nuclear watchdog that it has a second uranium enrichment plant under construction, diplomats said on Friday.
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/ 24 September 2009
The US and other major powers on Wednesday told Iran to prepare a ”serious response” by October 1 to demands it halt its nuclear programme.
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/ 23 September 2009
Iran has arrested a prominent woman reformist, a reformist website said on Wednesday.
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/ 23 September 2009
Iranian police warned shopkeepers on Tuesday not to use mannequins without headscarves or which exposed body curves.
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/ 22 September 2009
Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Tuesday foreign media were using ”psychological warfare” to create discord among Iranians.
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/ 22 September 2009
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a military parade in Tehran on Tuesday Iran would ”cut off the hands” of anyone who attacked the country.
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/ 19 September 2009
The UN nuclear inspection agency believes that Iran has ”sufficient information” to make a nuclear weapon and had ”probably tested” a key component.
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/ 18 September 2009
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday the Holocaust was a ”lie” and a pretext to create a Jewish state that Iranians had a religious duty to confront.
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/ 11 September 2009
Iran’s top leader told the opposition on Friday they would face a harsh response if they drew their ”swords” against the Islamic Republic.
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/ 10 September 2009
The plot thickened on Thursday over a secret trip by Israel’s prime minister, as his office admitted it had misled the public about his whereabouts.
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/ 9 September 2009
An ally of Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi has been detained, reformist websites said.
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/ 9 September 2009
The US said on Wednesday Iran was nearing the ability to make atom bombs by stockpiling enriched uranium.
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/ 8 September 2009
Moscow on Tuesday denied reports a cargo ship that went missing in the Atlantic had been carrying a Russian air-defence system to Iran.
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/ 7 September 2009
Iran will continue its disputed nuclear work and will never negotiate on its ”obvious” rights, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday.
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/ 6 September 2009
As fresh sanctions loom against Iran, the country’s president announced his government’s readiness to resume negotiations over its nuclear programme.
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/ 4 September 2009
A senior cleric urged Iran’s factions on Friday to end post-election infighting, suggesting they should focus on trying to ”export the revolution”.
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/ 3 September 2009
Iran’s Parliament approved most of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Cabinet ministers, including the first woman, on Thursday.
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/ 1 September 2009
Iran is ready to hold negotiations with world powers, the country’s chief nuclear negotiator was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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/ 1 September 2009
Iran’s new judiciary chief has called for the swift release of some protesters jailed in the aftermath of the disputed June presidential election.
An Iranian protester who died in jail after being arrested for taking part in post-election protests was beaten to death, a report said on Monday.
Iran’s embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appealed to Parliament on Sunday to approve his new Cabinet.