The Middle East boiled with anger as protestors trying to topple more of the region’s rulers staged fresh mass demonstrations after Friday prayers
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/ 15 February 2011
A warmly applauded Iranian drama emerged on Tuesday as a front-runner at the Berlin film festival, throwing the spotlight on the country’s film-makers
Hundreds of angry protesters burned tyres and blocked roads across Lebanon on Tuesday after Najib Mikati was named Lebanon’s prime minister.
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/ 24 January 2011
Iran has hanged almost 50 people during the past three weeks, according to human rights groups.
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/ 16 January 2011
Israel has tested a computer worm believed to have sabotaged Iran’s nuclear centrifuges and slowed its ability to develop an atomic weapon.
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/ 13 January 2011
China said it will be "difficult" for its ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency to tour Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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/ 11 January 2011
An Iranian human rights lawyer who has worked with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, has been jailed for 11 years.
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/ 10 January 2011
At least 70 people were killed and 35 injured when an Iranian Boeing 727 passenger plane crashed in bad weather in north-western Iran on Sunday.
Iran has invited several ambassadors accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna to tour its nuclear facilities.
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/ 29 December 2010
The United States and its allies have up to three years to curb Iran’s nuclear programme, a senior Israeli official said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 December 2010
Thirty people were killed and 55 injured Wednesday in a suicide bombing at a mosque in Iran’s south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
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/ 6 December 2010
World powers and Iran began talks in Geneva on Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme on Monday, 14 months after negotiations broke off.
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/ 5 December 2010
Iran has produced its first batch of uranium yellowcake, the raw material for enrichment, from a mine in the south of the country.
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/ 1 December 2010
Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering a love rival, her lawyer told the official IRNA news agency.
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/ 12 November 2010
Nigeria’s foreign minister is threatening action against Iran if it violated international law and UN sanctions in an arms-smuggling case.
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/ 26 October 2010
Iran begun loading fuel into its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday, a last step to realising its stated goal of becoming a peaceful nuclear power.
Deputy minister says SA would have voted against Iran sanctions at UN Security Council
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad basked in a rock-star welcome from Hezbollah’s Shi’ite loyalists on Wednesday.
Iranian government accuses the west of launching an "electronic war" following sophisticated Stuxnet worm attack.
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/ 25 September 2010
Barack Obama said claims by Iran’s president that the US had carried out the 9/11 attacks to prop up Israel were "hateful, offensive and inexcusable".
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/ 9 September 2010
Fidel Castro has accused Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of anti-Semitism in a passionate defence of Israel’s right to exist.
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/ 4 September 2010
Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Friday launched an angry attack on "doomed" US-brokered Middle East peace talks.
France says that insults in the Iranian media against first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who has been branded an "Italian prostitute", are unacceptable.
Iran would stop enrichment if it is assured of nuclear fuel supplies for a research reactor, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
The European Union hammered Iran on Monday with fresh sanctions against its vital energy sector.
An Iranian nuclear scientist who says he was abducted by CIA agents a year ago returned home from the United States early on Thursday.
A missing Iranian nuclear scientist, who Tehran says was kidnapped by the CIA, has turned up in Washington.
Imagine a country where a man with a ponytail could have it cut off by the cops, as could one with a mullet, or one whose hair was slathered in gel.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will hold off talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme until the end of August as a way to "discipline" the West.
Iran has barred two United Nations nuclear inspectors from entering the Islamic Republic, a senior official was quoted as saying on Monday.
The UN imposed a new slate of sanctions on Iran on Wednesday in an attempt to force it to comply with demands over its nuclear programme.
Europe kept the pressure on Iran on to reach an agreement with the UN over its nuclear programme, following a deal between Iran, Turkey and Brazil.