DUBAI—Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticized protesters as agents of foreign powers ahead of antigovernment demonstrations planned for Thursday, setting the stage for clashes

” To support this effort, the U.S. mission to the U.N. will present a paper by the end of this week to the five permanent

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–A former McKinsey & Co. management consultant was arrested Thursday on charges he operated an unlicensed money-transfer business between the U.S. and

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is increasingly questioning the long-term stability of Tehran’s government and moving to find ways to support Iran’s opposition “Green Movement,”

Behind the drama unfolding in the streets of Iran, the regime is quietly clamping down on some of the nation’s best students by derailing their

Supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime encouraged Iranians to turn out for a series of pro-government rallies Wednesday in Tehran and across Iran, going as

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kerry has suggested becoming the first high-level U.S. emissary to make a public visit to Tehran since the 1979 Islamic revolution,

At the height of Iran’s bloody civil unrest this year, a young doctor named Ramin Pourandarjani defied his superiors. He refused to sign death certificates

The United Nations says more than 4,200 Iranians world-wide have sought refugee status since Iran’s controversial June presidential vote and bloody street violence. This provincial

“..Meanwhile, the official calendar of the Islamic Republic includes 22 days during which the regime organizes massive public demonstrations to flex its muscles. Since the

NEW YORK — His first impulse was to dismiss the ominous email as a prank, says a young Iranian-American named Koosha. It warned the 29-year-old

Jan. 20, 2010 NEW YORK—When American diplomats sat down for the first in a series of face-to-face talks with their Iranian counterparts last October in

Certainly religious support cannot be enough anymore. Too many high-ranking clerics, including Grand Ayatollahs Hosssein Ali Montazeri and Yusef Saanei, now publicly oppose the regime.

Iranian economists are predicting double-digit currency depreciation by year-end, amid expectations that already high levels of capital flight will increase over fears about Iran’s economic

Iran’s opposition “Green Movement” showed no sign of quieting down as thousands of Iranians took to the streets Thursday, gathering at Tehran’s main cemetery for

 The family, clad in black, stood at the curb of the road sobbing. A middle-aged mother slapped her cheeks, letting out piercing wails. The father,

The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world’s most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet,

In Iran today, a sham election has been met with an open revolt. This takes great courage. The world’s free nations need the courage to

President-elect Obama says the U.S. should engage Iran. As one of our friends points out, “He has a choice: Engage with what Larijani represents, or

Iran seemed well-equipped to shrug off these outside economic pressures when the price its oil fetched was climbing. The good news for the Obama team