Six world powers on Thursday started crunch talks with Iran seeking to pressure Tehran to prove that its nuclear programme is peaceful.
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/ 20 September 2009
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad travels to New York this week for the UN General Assembly, his disputed re-election still sparking violent protests.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is personally behind the alleged fraud in the June 12 presidential election, a former president claims.
Once cast as part of the ‘axis of evil’, Iranians have shown they are real people, not collateral damage in waiting.
Iran dismissed on Wednesday Egyptian accusations against Lebanon’s Shi’ite militia Hezbollah as an "old trick".
Israeli leaders and military commanders deemed by Iran to be "war criminals" should be executed, a senior cleric said in a Friday prayer sermon.
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/ 28 January 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded on Wednesday that President Barack Obama apologise for "crimes" committed by the US against Iran.
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/ 8 September 2008
Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said Monday that Opec was oversupplying the market as he arrived for a meeting of the cartel in Vienna.
The UN security council has called on Iran to curb uranium enrichment and reprocessing on the grounds that they could be used to make a bomb.
The price of oil rocketed to a record high past $146 a barrel on Thursday owing to falling reserves of US crude and simmering tensions over Iran.
Oil surged past $145 per barrel for the first time on Thursday as the weak US dollar and Middle East tension stoked its record-breaking run.
Iran on Monday vowed a "very painful" response to any Israeli action after a senior minister of the Jewish state warned of attacks if Tehran did not halt its atomic drive, the ISNA news agency reported.