The UN’s nuclear watchdog reported on Saturday that Iran was continuing its uranium enrichment programme in defiance of the UN security council.
Women’s rights activists say they aren’t fooled by Ahmadinejad’s nomination of the first female Cabinet ministers since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Mohammad Khatami said on Wednesday trial confessions by moderates accused of fomenting post-election unrest were invalid.
Several aides to former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami and top reformists were put on trial on Tuesday.
The manager of a Tehran cemetery denied it carried out secret burials of people who died in post-election unrest, according to a report on Monday.
Iran called on Monday for a political solution to fighting in Yemen, days after a Yemeni official implied Iranian involvement in a Shi’ite rebellion.
Iran has allowed United Nations nuclear inspectors access to a reactor under construction after blocking visits for a year.
Western powers are urging the UN nuclear watchdog to reveal all the information it has that suggests Tehran is pursuing atomic weapons, diplomats said
Iran’s president faces a tough battle to win Parliament’s approval for his Cabinet after lawmakers indicated they would reject several ministers.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to unveil his Cabinet on Wednesday, facing a dogged opposition and challenges from within his own support base.
A top official has denied saying Tehran was ready to hold talks with the West on its atomic drive ”without preconditions”, a report said on Tuesday.
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.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in as Iran’s president on Wednesday after a disputed re-election that has exposed a deep schism.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed the second term presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday.
The trial of a group of people accused of rioting after the re-election in June of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s president began on Saturday.
Members of Parliament have drawn up a Bill limiting the autonomy of four vice-presidents in Iran, after a row with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran was grappling with fresh political turmoil on Monday as the president came under fire over the sacking of his intelligence minister.
The tweets still fly and the videos hit YouTube whenever protesters take to the streets in Iran — even as the internet battle turns more gruelling.
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.
They came in the small hours, just as the dormitories were settling down for the night.
Iranian police used tear gas to disperse tens of thousands of supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi on Friday.
Hundreds more people may have died in Iran’s unrest than the authorities have admitted, amid allegations that the death toll has been obscured.
Two badly damaged black box recorders have been recovered from a plane that crashed in Iran on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board.
A Tupolev passenger aircraft crashed in north-western Iran on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board, Iranian media reported.
A passenger aircraft crashed in north-western Iran on Wednesday, and up to 169 people on board were feared killed, ISNA news agency reported.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Western countries on Monday against interfering in Iranian affairs.
Iran’s hardline rulers are set to punish reformists linked to the boldest anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
A newspaper editor seen as close to Iran’s top authority said on Saturday defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had committed ”terrible crimes”.
Iranian hardliners pressed on Thursday for legal action against moderate leaders accused of inciting post-election turmoil.