VIDEO: Iran sanction ‘like losing passport’
Swift, the body that handles global banking transactions, says it will cut Iran’s banks out of the system on Saturday to enforce sanctions. Mehrdad Emadi,
Swift, the body that handles global banking transactions, says it will cut Iran’s banks out of the system on Saturday to enforce sanctions. Mehrdad Emadi,
Swift, the body that handles global banking transactions, says it will cut Iran’s banks out of the system on Saturday to enforce sanctions. The move
A “sophisticated cyber-attack” on the BBC has been linked to Iran’s efforts to disrupt the BBC Persian Service. In a speech Director General Mark Thompson
The authorities in Azerbaijan have arrested 22 people on suspicion of spying for Iran, accusing them of links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The undated
After a council of Afghan clerics issued restrictive guidelines for women, later embraced by President Hamid Karzai, young Afghans streamed to social media sites to
وزارت خزانه داری آمریکا می گوید که نام سرتیپ غلامرضا باغبانی “یکی از فرماندهان نیروی قدس سپاه پاسداران ایران”، به اتهام مشارکت در قاچاق مواد
Two British journalists detained in Libya are suspected of spying, the militia that is holding them says. Faraj al-Swehli, commander of a Misrata brigade, said
But in 2012 the political cycles of four out of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council happen to coincide; and those five
The people of Iran are going to the polls to vote for a new parliament in the first elections since 2009, when the country erupted
North Korea has agreed to suspend uranium enrichment, as well as nuclear and long-range missile tests, following talks with the US. The US State Department
The wife of Christopher Tappin – a retired British businessman being held in the US for allegedly conspiring to sell batteries for Iranian missiles –
For all the myriad challenges facing Israel over the past decade it is the potential threat from a nuclear-armed Iran that has preoccupied the country’s
For the first time Iran has won an Oscar – A Separation won for best foreign film. But the people of Iran, who are extremely
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela has been taken to hospital. Officials said he was suffering from a “long-standing abdominal complaint” which doctors felt needed
Two British journalists working for Iranian-owned Press TV have been arrested in Libya. Reporter Nicholas Davies and cameraman Gareth Montgomery-Johnson were detained by members of
A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, has killed 48 people and left hundreds injured, police say. The train
At least four people have been killed and 20 injured in Afghanistan as protests spread over the burning of copies of the Koran at a
The UN nuclear watchdog says Iran has stopped a team of inspectors from visiting a key military site. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says
An Iranian military commander has said Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered. Mohammad Hejazi, deputy
People in Yemen are due to elect a new president, ending current leader Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33-year-rule. Voters are expected to rubber-stamp Vice-President Abdrabbuh Mansour
ranian warships have entered the Mediterranean Sea for only the second time since the 1979 revolution. The destroyer Shahid Qandi and its supply vessel Kharg
About 400 Iranian exiles have been transferred from their long-held camp in north-western Iraq. They are members of the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI),
Iran may be poised to expand its nuclear programme at an underground site near the city of Qom, a Vienna-based diplomat has told the BBC.
Iran’s nuclear ambitions could plunge the Middle East into “a new Cold War”, the UK foreign secretary has warned. Interviewed by the Daily Telegraph, William Hague
Fifty years ago this week the idea of mutually assured nuclear destruction was outlined in a major speech. But how did this frightening concept of