Iranian security officials used batons and teargas to disperse thousands of protesters at a silent rally held in central Tehran.
The UN nuclear watchdog says it has received new information on possible military dimensions to Iran’s controversial nuclear programme.
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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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/ 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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/ 7 December 2009
Government opponents shouted ”Allahu Akbar” and ”Death to the Dictator” from Tehran’s rooftops in the pouring rain on the eve of demonstrations.
Iran’s reformist opposition leaders have vowed to press on with legal challenges to an election they say was rigged.
European Union nations on Tuesday called in Iranian ambassadors to express new alarm over violence on the streets of Tehran.
Police broke up a protest in Tehran and the Revolutionary Guards said they would help crush what they called rioters opposing the re-election
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, defended Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday as the rightful winner of the presidential election.
Iran’s electoral watchdog said on Tuesday it is ready to recount the presidential ballots if it finds irregularities in the vote count.
Defeated Iran presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has appeared in public for the first time since an election that has divided the nation.
Iranian restaurateur Mohsen Misaqi notes that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fulfilled the promise to put oil wealth on the table of every family.
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.
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/ 17 February 2009
Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage to delay Tehran’s efforts to develop a nuclear weapon, the Daily Telegraph said on Tuesday.
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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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/ 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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/ 19 January 2009
Two internationally renowned Iranian Aids physicians were sentenced to prison over the weekend for allegedly participating in a US-backed plot.
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/ 13 January 2009
Iran has arrested four people accused of involvement in a US-financed plot to topple its Islamic system of government, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
Iran would consider suspending uranium enrichment if the country were guaranteed a supply of nuclear fuel for its power stations.
Iran has test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles, including one which it has previously said could reach Israel and US bases in the region.
Iran’s army chief warned on Saturday that the Islamic republic would shut the Strait of Hormuz if its interests were threatened.
Iran vowed on Saturday to pursue its uranium enrichment programme, a day after delivering its response to an incentives package.
Iran responded on Friday to an incentives package offered by six world powers aimed at resolving a stand-off over its disputed nuclear ambitions.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned the United States on Wednesday it would face a ”tragedy” if it attacked the Islamic Republic.
Top EU diplomat Javier Solana handed Iran an offer by six major powers to try to coax it into halting nuclear work, but Tehran ruled out suspension.
Top European Union diplomat Javier Solana will present Iran with a major powers’ offer of trade and other benefits on Saturday.
Iran’s president said on Monday Israel would soon disappear off the map and that the ”satanic power” of the United States faced destruction, in his latest verbal attack on the Islamic Republic’s arch-foes. Opposition to Israel is a fundamental principle in Shi’ite Muslim Iran, which backs Palestinian militants opposed to peace.
Iran will not give up its rights in the face of Western pressure, its supreme leader said on Sunday, two days after major powers said they would make a new offer to convince Tehran to halt its nuclear plans. Ayatollah Ali Khomenei did not explicitly mention Iran’s nuclear activities, which Western powers suspect are aimed at making bombs.
A top cleric on Friday vowed that Iran would deal a knock-out blow to what he called maniacs in the United States and Israel if they ever attacked the Islamic republic. ”If maniacs in Washington or Tel Aviv seek to take action, the Iranian nation will slap them so hard they will not get off the floor,” hard-line cleric Ahmad Khatami said.
Iranian conservatives were on Saturday heading for a crushing victory in parliamentary elections over reformists who were sidelined by mass pre-vote disqualifications, partial results showed. Eighty-two seats in the 290 seat Parliament were at stake in the run-off voting on Saturday after the first round on March 14 left conservatives assured of taking a majority in the next Parliament.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday proclaimed Iran was the ”most powerful nation” in the world as the country’s air force boasted of its prowess at a time of mounting tension with the West. ”Iran is the most powerful and independent nation in the world,” Ahmadinejad told a military parade outside Tehran.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday reaffirmed his doubts about the accepted version of the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, describing the strikes as a ”suspect event”. ”Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech to a public rally in the holy city of Qom.