TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country’s football legend Ali Daei was injured in a car crash and is recovering from

Thousands of emails purported to be from the private accounts of Bashar Assad and his wife show the Syrian president took advice from Iran on

TEHRAN — Gold-flecked ice cream wasn’t part of the picture that Shiite Muslim clerics painted during the Iranian Revolution, when they promised to lift the

The state-owned Bahrain News Agency reported late Monday that Hujatullah Rahmani, the second secretary at the Iranian Embassy in Manama, was declared a persona non

The civil war in Libya and the uprisings in the Middle East continue to dominate the news. But we shouldn’t lose track of Mehdi Karroubi

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian pro-government news agency claims armed opposition groups plan to shoot at people in a protest rally set for Sunday afternoon.

Iranians have taken to Facebook to show their displeasure, writing messages of support for “Persian Gulf” on the U.S. Navy’s Facebook page. All day, messages

For the second time in a month, heavy air pollution in Iran’s smog-filled capital has forced authorities to close government offices and …

TEHRAN – Iran’s uranium-enrichment program has been the target of sabotage, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday, but he refused to say whether the Stuxnet

The sailors were found just about 1,000 yards (1 kilometer) outside Iranian territorial waters at 5 a.m. local time and were provided food and water.

IN TEHRAN Last year, Tehran’s writers, doctors and small-business owners formed the backbone of a grass-roots opposition movement against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Now these middle-class

U.S. diplomats and human rights groups are outraged that Iran is set to become a member of the board of the new U.N. agency to

Ayatollah Khomeini said: “We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land burn. I

SAO PAULO — Brazil has formally offered asylum to a woman sentenced to death in Iran on an adultery conviction. The official news service Agencia

Yet as Mr. Obama acknowledged, Iran is still pursuing nuclear weapons, and “changing their calculations is very difficult. . . . It may be that

A YEAR ago on Saturday, a movement was born that offers the best chance of ending the threat posed by Iran’s support for terrorism and

Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a scheduled hearing on a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia, Clinton shrugged off a announced

UNITED NATIONS — A global nuclear conference that opens Monday is shaping up as a showdown between Iran and the United States, with each side

In public testimony over the past three years, senior U.S. intelligence officials have avoided contradicting the language used in the 2007 NIE, despite privately asserting

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iran has withdrawn its bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council amid growing criticism of what one advocacy

We are not advocating strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. But the public signs of the administration’s squishiness about military options are worrisome because of the

After he refused to perform for Ahmadinejad’s campaign, security forces began harassing him. He was detained and threatened with worse consequences. “I was surprised by

Bombmaker Abdul Qadeer Khan states in documents obtained by The Washington Post that in lieu of weapons, Pakistan gave Iran bomb-related drawings, parts for centrifuges

The opposition supporters nervously smoked cigarettes in the kitchen as loud music blared from the empty living room. A student, a businessman, a writer and

The opposition is still alive: You could see that in video footage of a crowd defacing a poster of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,