Iran’s conservative establishment struck hard again at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday, squashing his bid to take over as the country’s caretaker oil minister ahead
The CIA stepped in to prevent the United States from closing a consulate in the Persian Gulf city-state of Dubai, arguing that it was a
An influential and high-ranking Iranian cleric has issued a scathing denunciation of the Islamic Republic’s current leadership, calling on senior Shiite Muslim clergy in the
Reporting from Beirut – When the managing director of a small, trouble-prone Iranian airline won official permission in March to lease a couple of aging
Mashaei, born in 1960 in the Caspian Sea town of Ramsar, as an opportunist who has parlayed his longtime friendship with Ahmadinejad, an in-law, into
Iran’s leading opposition figure, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, launched a lengthy broadside against the Iranian leadership and state-owned media in comments published today on his website as
The U.S. government is pursuing a high-stakes gambit to improve relations with Iran, with President Obama delivering a conciliatory speech last month and later dispatching
Iran announced a $3.2-billion natural gas deal with China on Saturday, a move that underscored the difficulty of using economic sanctions to pressure Tehran to
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and rival Mohammad Khatami are courting voters and trading barbs four months before the vote, whose outcome probably will influence ties with
Philippe Welti, who for more than four years served as both Switzerland’s envoy and Washington’s representative to the Islamic Republic, as he discussed the case
The chief of the world’s nuclear weapons watchdog organization considers five years of U.S. and international efforts to rein in Iran’s nuclear ambitions a failure,
Instead of extending an olive branch to President-elect Barack Obama, who says he is open to talks with Tehran, Iranian military officials Wednesday delivered what
A report based on declassified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations, angry with the shah for his support for raising oil prices, worked
A report based on declassified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations, angry with the shah for his support for raising oil prices, worked
First anonymous U.S. officials tell reporters they’re interested in maybe, possibly expanding the minuscule Iranian interests section in Tehran. Then Condoleezza Rice says publicly that
