EU foreign policy chief sparks fury by meeting six leading campaigners during landmark Tehran trip Catherine Ashton has infuriated hardliners in Tehran by meeting a group of leading women's rights activists during her first visit to Iran as EU foreign policy chief. Ashton, who brokered a historic interim nuclear agreement with Iran last year , met six female activists at the Austrian embassy in Tehran...
After years of opacity on the subject, the administration has admitted that the main source of the smog is sub-standard gasoline ...
Iran urged to cooperate in case of former FBI agent reportedly working for CIA when he went missing in 2007 Martin Pengelly ...
Iranian foreign minister, visiting Jakarta in wake of death of Reza Barati, says Canberra’s policy will be subject of future talks ...
s armed forces denied the Israeli claims as baseless, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated to the revolutionary guards. The Panamanian registered vessel, KLOS-C, was boarded by naval special forces on Tuesday night, shortly before it entered Sudanese waters. Lerner said "scores" of Syrian-made M320 surface-to-surface rockets had been seized. With a range of over 100...
The Israeli navy seizes a ship in the Red Sea on Wednesday, allegedly carrying advanced rockets supplied by Iran and intended for delivery on the Gaza Strip ...
A family in Tehran grapples with a father’s cancer ...
Crew of HMAS Darwin find men clinging to wreckage after their boat was hit by an unknown vessel ...
s wing of Evin prison in Tehran, was found guilty of "spreading propaganda" and "gathering and colluding" against the ruling system. She was arrested in July after being summoned for questioning and was kept in solitary confinement for more than two months without access to her lawyer. The opposition website Sahamnews reported on Sunday that her sentence was issued by Abolghasem Salavati, a judge at...
Government restrictions compounded by pressure from the international market have hampered great Iranian filmmaking Houman Harouni ...
Tensions over Iran and peace process with Palestinians have led some to suggest waning of Israeli influence in Washington Dan Roberts Harriet Sherwood ...
President Hassan Rouhani says pursuit of WMDs is against ‘our religion’ while stressing commitment to diplomacy ...
Despite President Rouhani’s pledge to relax cultural censorship, the Internet remains slow and heavily filtered, and social networking sites are still blocked despite their widespread use by politicians ...
Classes have been springing up all across Tehran and other cities around the country. But are the classes any good? ...
ve been here since '52," one old hand said. Even grandees of the big television networks joined the sprint across the grounds and into the lift, copies in hand. Inside the cinema-like forum, all was concentrated silence punctuated by an occasional profanity or a murmur of "My God, North lied all along" from the readers. Until 11 o'clock sharp. With a "Ladies and gentlemen, the members of the President's...
Budget cuts will reduce global clout, warns secretary of state, and hints that US would consider military strike on Iran ...
“He went to Australia to seek refuge from his land of dreams, where he could have a life and study but instead he was held in captivity and killed,” says cousin Saeed Kamali Dehghan ...
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s intelligence services have beaten up and temporarily detained a prominent journalist and film-maker critical of the authorities' treatment of the opposition. Mohammad Nurizad, 61, was protesting in front of the Iranian intelligence ministry in Tehran on Monday when a group of its agents attacked him, and took him to Evin prison without a valid warrant for his arrest. He was later released. "They...
Group including nine-year-old girl takes RBS, NatWest and Lloyds to court, saying banks have misread sanctions policy A group of Iranians, including a nine-year-old girl, have taken three high-street UK banks to court for what they believe is a misreading of sanctions policy, alleging they have been subjected to racial discrimination after being told that their accounts had to close. RBS, NatWest and...