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