Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cancelled his visit to Libya on Wednesday, sparing an African Union summit a diplomatic dilemma.
Advisers warn Iran’s president that letters sent by the public he is so keen to correspond with may contain poisons.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted a walkout from his speech to a UN racism summit on Monday when he accused Israel of racism against the Palestinians.
Iran said on Monday a journalist jailed for espionage had the right to appeal against her sentence, but the US should respect rulings by its courts.
An Iranian-American journalist accused in Iran of spying for the United States has been jailed for eight years, her lawyer said on Saturday.
A jailed American journalist charged by Iran with espionage stood trial behind closed doors, Iran’s judiciary spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Iran on Thursday said it would review an offer of talks on its nuclear programme from the United States and five other world powers.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that US President Barack Obama’s offer of better ties was just a ”slogan”.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Parliament of violating the Constitution after it rejected a key plank of his subsidy reform plan.
Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday an Iranian-American journalist was being held in Evin prison on the orders of a court that handles state security.
Media reports claim United States President Barack Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev seeking help to disarm Iran.
The United Nations atomic watchdog will take its first look at Iran’s nuclear programme since the change of president in the United States.
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/ 11 February 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells huge crowd that change by Washington would have to be ”fundamental and not tactical”.
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/ 19 January 2009
Two internationally renowned Iranian Aids physicians were sentenced to prison over the weekend for allegedly participating in a US-backed plot.
Oil jumped to a three-week high on Monday after an Iranian military commander called for an oil boycott over Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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/ 21 December 2008
Iranian police shut down the office of a human rights group headed by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Sunday.
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/ 26 November 2008
Iran now has 5 000 working uranium-enrichment centrifuges, a senior official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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/ 22 November 2008
Iran has hanged an Iranian telecoms salesperson convicted of spying for arch-enemy Israel, a senior official said on Saturday.
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/ 24 October 2008
He is renowned for his long hours and hectic schedule, but the stress of high office may be taking its toll on the health of Iran’s president.
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/ 17 October 2008
Iran fails to register the world’s largest sandwich in the Guinness World Records book as it is eaten by onlookers.
Iran would consider suspending uranium enrichment if the country were guaranteed a supply of nuclear fuel for its power stations.
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/ 15 September 2008
A UN inquiry into intelligence allegations of secret atom-bomb research in Iran has reached a standstill, an IAEA report said on Monday.
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/ 11 September 2008
At least seven people were killed in Wednesday’s powerful earthquake in Iran, and on Thursday Japan and Indonesia were also shaken by strong quakes.
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/ 5 September 2008
Iran’s Opec governor said an oil price of per barrel was ”appropriate” in current conditions, the Oil Ministry’s news agency Shana reported.
US military posturing towards Tehran lacks credibility and, in any case, such action would fail in all its purposes.
The US State Department said major powers had agreed on Wednesday to consider more United Nations sanctions against Iran.
Iran and the representative of six world powers talked by telephone on Monday over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme.
Iran will continue on its nuclear ”path”, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted on Wednesday.
Iran’s president called on Tuesday for developing nations to unite against what he said was bias by the UN Security Council.
Iran executed 29 convicted drug smugglers and ”bandits” on Sunday morning in Tehran’s Evin prison, the state broadcaster’s website Irib reported.
Iran is running more than 5 000 centrifuges for enriching uranium, its president was quoted as saying on Saturday.
A frequent complaint of the Iranians is that they want to deal directly with the US instead of its surrogates, Britain, France and Germany.