Turkey’s rising clout leaves Iran fuming on sidelines of Arab Spring
Once friends, Turkey and Iran are finding that their reactions to the Arab Spring revolutions are driving them apart and renewing an old regional rivalry.
Once friends, Turkey and Iran are finding that their reactions to the Arab Spring revolutions are driving them apart and renewing an old regional rivalry.
But while many dozen have so far been killed in Egypt and more than 1,000 injured, the violence in Iran was marked by its brutality.
In Washington and European capitals, top New Year priorities on Iran may be Tehran’s nuclear program, and the next round of talks in Istanbul in
The Israeli drumbeat for a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program grew louder this week as former intelligence chief Shabtai Shavit said the Jewish state
In a swift answer to the Iran nuclear fuel deal secured Monday by Turkey and Brazil, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today that world
ran security forces and pro-government militants clashed sporadically with hundreds of thousands of reformist mourners at the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran’s
Pro-government demonstrators in Iran launched a 10-day religious mourning period on Friday with nationwide rallies and calls for the execution of opposition leader and former
Hack attacks on Twitter and Iranian opposition websites are directing traffic to a web page created by the “Iranian Cyber Army.” The page is all
Of all the sanctities in the Islamic Republic, few are more sacred than the memory of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, father of Iran’s 1979 revolution. So
Istanbul, Turkey – Authorities in Iran have blocked a high-profile activist – the daughter of a couple murdered by government agents more than a decade
ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Prosecutors in Iran says they don’t yet know whether the suspicious death of a doctor – Ramin Pourandarjan – was murder or
ISTANBUL, TURKEY – Ever since the Islamic revolution in 1979, Iran has cast itself as a utopian model. On the very day he established the “government
Istanbul, Turkey – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought to bolster the Islamic Republic’s regional standing at an economic summit for Muslim leaders in Turkey on
In the biggest presidential election turnout in the history of the Islamic Republic, some 85 percent of Iran’s electorate went to the polls last Friday
“Ebadi, death to the witch of America,” reads the scrawl on the garage door, the word “witch” misspelled in Farsi. Nearby is another message: “Shame
Shariatmadari’s unwavering views prompted one commentator to label him Iran’s Rush Limbaugh. But analysts say that Khamenei has often acted pragmatically to preserve his country’s
“On that day when the United States of America will praise us, we should mourn,” said Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.