Iran nuclear negotiator calls for atomic arms ban
TOKYO — Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator called for a global nuclear weapons ban on Monday but insisted all nations — including his own — have
TOKYO — Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator called for a global nuclear weapons ban on Monday but insisted all nations — including his own — have
BEIRUT — Iran’s foreign minister said Monday he expects a speedy trial for three American hikers who have been jailed since crossing the border from
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian state radio is reporting that authorities have arrested several people accused of involvement in destroying photos of the country’s supreme leader
BAGHDAD — Amnesty International on Friday warned that Iraq’s plans to move an Iranian opposition group to a former desert detention camp in the country’s
STOCKHOLM — Scandinavian officials said Thursday that the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma confiscated by Iran from laureate Shirin Ebadi have been returned, but
WASHINGTON — An Iranian man has pleaded guilty to plotting to ship sensitive military technology to Iran, and told an undercover investigator his country’s leaders
PARIS (AP) — The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own
CAIRO, Egypt — A doctor who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from an overdose of a blood pressure drug
OSLO – Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, the Norwegian government said Thursday, accusing Iran of a shocking first in the
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Iran was in the throes of a “soft war” with its enemies abroad, and that events after
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The portfolio of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard keeps on growing. Its troops watch over nuclear facilities, its rocket scientists enlarge Iran’s
ROME — Iran’s first lady has made a rare public appearance and even more rare, a speech, at a Rome forum on the eve of
BRUSSELS — An Iranian opposition leader said Thursday that the country is making sweeping changes to its security apparatus in an effort to consolidate the
TEHRAN, Iran — Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday a U.N.-backed plan to ship much of the country’s uranium abroad for further enrichment, raising further
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI urged Iranian authorities on Thursday to let Catholics have the priests and churches they need to freely practice their
The Iranian president says the West and Iran are now cooperating on the nuclear issue on the international scene. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the West has
LONDON — Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari, who was detained for nearly four months in Iran, has been released and has rejoined his pregnant wife in
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday sent a message to Iran that pursuit of nuclear capability will not go unpunished, approving legislation that allows state
BAGHDAD — A group of 36 Iranian opposition members were returned Wednesday to an exile camp in northern Iraq after nearly three months in Iraqi
TEHRAN, Iran — One of Iran’s most prominent pro-reform figures has been released on bail after more than three months in jail on charges of
UNITED NATIONS — Iran’s foreign minister said Thursday his nation is willing to raise and extend its dialogue on a wide variety of issues to
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s official news agency IRNA says a judiciary panel has rejected claims made by a reformist presidential candidate that detained protesters were
GENEVA — A U.N. anti-torture investigator said Thursday he has received credible claims that Iranian protesters detained after the June 12 presidential elections were abused
TEHRAN — Iran’s hardline press hailed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday for snubbing Western powers after he was sworn in for a second term and
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Supreme Leader is to formally endorse Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president, a step leading up to his inauguration in parliament. But the