Iran today did not exactly welcome President Obama’s emphatic expression of sympathy for and denunciation of a deadly terrorist bombing in the southern city of

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, the president’s chief of staff, is stirring up trouble by challenging the clergy’s attitudes toward art and music in unusually harsh and

Farzad Farhangian, a 47-year-old press attache at the Iranian Embassy in Brussels, arrived in Norway on Monday night and is planning to hand an application

Video uploaded to the Internet Friday purports to show pro-government henchman attacking the home of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, a 72-year-old cleric.  The militiamen, who

Several earthquakes, the largest with a magnitude of 5.8, struck southern Iran near its gulf coast early on Wednesday, the country’s seismological center said, but

In a surprise announcement, a judiciary official in provincial Iran said a woman who had been convicted and sentenced to stoning for adultery had also

Hard-line clerics are gearing up for a fight over how to reverse the trend of “badly veiled women” whose loose or self-styled interpretations of Islamic

The Obama administration Wednesday announced unilateral sanctions against a number of Iranian organizations and individuals as it took its first steps to build on the

China insisted today that it has not shifted its approach to Iran’s nuclear program, despite White House claims on Monday that Beijing had become more

On Tuesday evening, Jimmy Delshad will officially become mayor of Beverly Hills. This will be his second turn as mayor, a job he held for

Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi declared the upcoming Persian calendar year one of “patience and endurance” for the opposition movement in an attempt to lift

Iran’s supreme leader delivered a fiery speech Wednesday in a meeting with supporters in the city of Tabriz, offering not a single hint that the

As if there isn’t enough turmoil between Iran’s government and the opposition, now President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be stirring up trouble within his own

This picture by Italian photographer Pietro Masturzo was named World Press Photo’s 2009 Photo of the Year on Friday in Amsterdam. It shows women in

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a Southern California man has been charged along with two Iranians in a conspiracy to illegally export technology to

An opposition news website is reporting that Iran has imported high-tech armored anti-riot vehicles equipped with water cannons that can douse people with boiling water

An Iranian American activist who obtained an advance copy of the United Nations high commissioner on human rights’ statement about Iran is outraged, saying her

Site administrators censor video clips that express critical views of the government, Islamic scholars and members of the Saudi royal family.  >>>

Educators in the Gaza Strip have begun enforcing an unofficial decree by the Hamas leadership requiring high school girls to wear Islamic dress, despite Hamas

Iranian officials interviewed an alleged victim of jailhouse rape at the hands of security personnel. Butinstead of consoling him, they asked him embarrassing questions and blamed

Iran experts abound. But few of those talking about the Islamic Republic have ever lived or worked there.  Francois Nicoullaud, the former French envoy to

“All four major candidates are in line with the system,” Askar Owladi, a high-ranking member of the conservative Islamic Coalition Party, told attendees.”So we do

Reporting from Brussels — Determined to die as martyrs, the French and Belgian militants bought hiking boots and thermal underwear and journeyed to the wilds

After years of legal hurdles, Egypt’s High Administrative Court upheld a verdict granting the minority Bahai community the right to be themselves, at least when

Reporting from Tehran — A delegation of Hollywood actors and producers that arrived in Tehran over the weekend to meet with their counterparts has also