Iran has shrugged off the impact of new Western sanctions after European diplomats said they had all but agreed on an EU ban on oil from the country.
The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been jailed and banned from political activities for ‘anti-state propaganda’.
Iran has warned one of the US navy’s biggest warships to keep away from the Gulf, in an escalating showdown that may pitch into armed confrontation.
Iran is testing missiles near the Strait of Hormuz, underlining threats to close the vital oil-transit waterway as the West prepares more sanctions.
Iran has test-fired a new long-range missile during naval exercises, after threatening to halt oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.
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/ 21 December 2011
The UN nuclear watchdog said it may Iran for talks, a day after an Iranian official said Tehran was prepared to discuss international concerns.
Iran may move its nuclear facilities to safer locations if it becomes necessary, reflecting Iran’s worries of a possible strike against the sites.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has escaped the Middle East’s strongest show of contempt — a shoe-throwing attack.
Argentina is quietly reaching out to Iran, worrying key Western powers and Israel as they try to tighten Tehran’s isolation over its nuclear program.
The United States has urged Turkey to pass new sanctions against Iran, increasing pressure on Tehran to stop work on its nuclear activities.
Britain has begun evacuating diplomatic staff from Iran, warning of serious consequences for the Iranian government.
Outraged by the attacks on its embassy in Iran, the UK has evacuated all its diplomatic staff members, warning of ‘serious consequences’.
The EU has agreed in principle to sanction some Iranian companies, adding to measures on suspicions that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
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/ 22 November 2011
New sanctions unveiled by Western states against Iran over its nuclear drive are unacceptable and illegal, says Russia.
China says sanctions will not "fundamentally solve" the Iranian nuclear issue and urged further dialogue to resolve an ongoing impasse.
Russia has rejected EU calls for further sanctions against Iran in the wake of a UN reports that Tehran had experimented with nuclear weapon designs.
In a report derided by Iran and likely to stir tension in the Middle East, the IAEA says Tehran has been trying to design an atomic bomb.
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/ 8 November 2011
Israel’s Defence Minister Ehud Barak has played down speculation that Israel intends to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog is set to reveal alleged Iranian work on an advanced nuclear warhead — though this is not regarded as a "smoking gun".
Iran has demanded an official apology from the Obama administration over US claims that Tehran plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
Tehran says the suspect in a plot to assassinate a Saudi envoy in the US belongs to an Iranian dissident group the state regards as its "sworn enemy".
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/ 12 October 2011
Sasol says it is reviewing its investment in Iran, which is facing sanction over its nuclear programme, and has no growth plans for the country.
Iran has complained to the UN about an "evil plot" by the US, which claims Tehran is behind a plan to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
Iran has rejected the Palestinians’ UN statehood bid, saying any deal that accepted the existence of Israel would leave a "cancerous tumour" forever.
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/ 29 September 2011
The lawyer of an Iranian pastor sentenced to death for apostasy says there is a "95% chance" that an appeals court will acquit his client.
The US and other countries walked out of a speech by Iran’s President Ahmadinejad to the UN after he attacked the "arrogant powers" of the West.
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/ 14 September 2011
In a country where Western music is banned, there are musicians who are part of Iran’s booming underground scene — making rock, Iranian style.
Russia has put forward "proposals" to build new nuclear power plants in Iran after the completion of the Bushehr project, local media has reported.
An Iranian man convicted of throwing acid in the face of a female student, who was to have been blinded himself in retribution, has been pardoned.
Recently, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, Fereydoun Abbasi Davani, announced plans to triple Iran’s capacity to produce 20% uranium.
Bahrain has sentenced one of its citizens and two foreigners to 10 years in prison for spying for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Iranian security officials used batons and teargas to disperse thousands of protesters at a silent rally held in central Tehran.