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On Dec. 7, tens of thousands of students marched at universities across Iran, in the most significant anti-government protests in the country for months.
Iraq announced plans Thursday to move members of an Iranian opposition group to a former desert detention camp in a sharp escalation of pressure on a faction that poses complications for both Baghdad and Washington.
An Iranian opposition leader said Thursday that the country is making sweeping changes to its security apparatus in an effort to consolidate the power of the elite Revolutionary Guard.
It's a seemingly simple approach to one of the modern world's most complicated political problems: By marrying the dainty lutes of the East with thrumming violas of the West, composer Hafez Nazeri says he wants to create harmony between the U.S. and his native Iran.
The Archbishop of Canterbury said Sunday that the U.S. and Iraq must protect the residents of Camp Ashraf from violence and abuse.
Supporters of an Iranian dissident group based in Iraq called on the Obama administration Thursday to restore U.S. military protection for the exiles, who were attacked by Iraqi security forces on July 28.
An exiled Iranian opposition group urged the international community on Tuesday to assume control of a camp housing some of its members outside Baghdad, after an Iraqi raid last month killed at least six of its residents.
Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi on Sunday urged Iran's government to release detained activists and citizens accused of involvement in the country's postelection unrest, saying the president must "listen to the people's voice."
U.S. forces on Thursday released five Iranian officials detained in January 2007 in northern Iraq on suspicion of aiding local Shiite militants, Iranian and Iraqi officials said.
Until the Iranian election this month, Holland's Radio Zamaneh was more interested in underground music, alternative literature and interviews with Iranian cultural figures than in politics.
Iran is big business for Europe, whose companies sell it everything from rail equipment to turbines and even cell phone technology that has been used to block communications between protesters seeking to overturn disputed election results.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Obama administration is closely watching the election in Iran but that policies are more significant than personalities in dealings with the Persian Gulf nation.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Iran's missile launch was an obvious concern for the Obama administration.
The State Department has reaffirmed its designation of an Iraq-based Iranian opposition group as a terrorist organization.
An Iranian detained by U.S. forces at the Baghdad airport has been released, the Iraqi government said Saturday.
The U.S. military says it has arrested an alleged senior member of the Iranian security forces suspected of funneling weapons into Iraq.
Police say gunmen have kidnapped an Iranian diplomat after killing his guard in Pakistan's volatile northwest.
Organizers of the Venice Film Festival waited to announce "Khastegi (Tedium)" by first-time Iranian director Bahman Motamedian until the last minute to avoid alerting authorities to its sensitive subject: transsexuals in modern-day Iran.
An Iranian opposition group said Wednesday that the Iraqi government's move to ban dealings with it reflected pressures on Baghdad by Iran.
The Netherlands' highest court on Tuesday rejected a gay Iranian's last-ditch appeal to avoid deportation to Britain, where he fears authorities will send him back to Tehran and possible execution.
Greeted by joyous relatives and a crowd of reporters, about 40 Iranian Jews landed in Israel on Tuesday, leaving behind their lives in the Islamic Republic for new homes in the Jewish state.
An Iranian detained in northern Iraq more than three years ago has been released by U.S. authorities, Iran's ambassador said Wednesday.
When Iranian agents boarded an airplane that made an emergency landing in Tehran, the only Israeli passenger on board feared the worst. Instead, he left with a gift of a wooden music box and an invitation to return when times are better.
Iran has launched a rocket capable of reaching the edge of space, according to a state television report on Sunday.
Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms seized an Iranian diplomat as he drove through central Baghdad, officials said Tuesday. Tehran condemned the abduction and blamed U.S. forces in Iraq.
BBC News - Analysis: Iran's Montazeri challengeFor many years Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri was one of the most vocal, and respected, critics from within Iran.
BBC News - Obituary: Ayatollah MontazeriGrand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri, who has died aged 87, was one of the leaders of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution , and at one stage he was designated to become its Supreme Leader.
BBC News - Funeral for Iran's rebel ayatollah focus for oppositionTens of thousands of Iranian opposition supporters are in the holy city of Qom for the funeral of the dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri. Opposition leaders have called for a huge turnout. Riot police are deployed.
Terror at Perth Avenue amid death and bomb threats - thestar.comThe trouble began exactly one year ago, when the letters started to mysteriously appear. The first threatened to kill a Toronto teacher and her newborn baby.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | �Proof linking Jundallah to Pakistani intelligence givenISLAMABAD: A senior Iranian official said Iran has presented evidence to Islamabad that shows links between Pakistani intelligence services and the Jundallah militant group based in the Sistan-Balochistan province.
BBC News - Saudis deny claim that US seized visiting IranianSaudi Arabia has denied an accusation from Iran that an Iranian nuclear scientist was detained on its soil by Saudi agents and handed over to the US. On Tuesday the Iranian foreign minister said Shahram Amiri was abducted in June while on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
BBC News - Canadian sues Iran for death of his mother Zahra KazemiA court in Canada has begun hearing a lawsuit filed by the son of slain Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi against the Iranian government. Zahra Kazemi died in 2003 after receiving head injuries during more than three days of interrogation.
BBC News - Neda Agha Soltan's family accuse Iran of her killingThe family of a young woman shot dead at a protest following Iran's disputed presidential election has accused the security forces of killing her. It is the most strongly-worded statement the family of Neda Agha Soltan have made since her death.
AP Source: Iranian charged in smuggling caseWASHINGTON -- Federal authorities are set to announce charges against an Iranian man accused of plotting to violate the ban against shipping sensitive military technology to Iran. (by Delvin Barret)
British racing yacht crew held by Iran - CNN.comFive British nationals who were the crew of a racing yacht were detained by the Iranian Navy on November 25 and remain held in Iran, the British Foreign Office said Monday.
Why we have to talk with Tehran - The Globe and MailSince I was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Should the Obama administration have a dialogue with Iran? Can we still talk to these people? What should the West do in nuclear negotiations?
Iran: Sanctions and StrategyThe Iranian government has rejected, at least for the moment, a proposal from the P-5+1 to ship the majority of its low-enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment. The group is now considering the next step in the roadmap that it laid out last April.
BBC News : Iran doctor 'committed suicide'Iran's police chief says a doctor who died at a detention centre shut in July after the deaths of several opposition supporters committed suicide.
Religion & The MarketplaceIslam is on its march of death on many fronts. A very dangerous front has been recently re-opened at the United Nations (UN) by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the largest group of nations within the UN, by introducing a new resolution.
Iran Agrees to Send Enriched Uranium Outside Country: Also Will Allow Inspection of Uranium Enrichment PlantOn October 1, 2009 Iran committed "to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection in the next two weeks and to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium outside Iran," according to "senior American and other Western officials," as …
US nuclear expert Scott Ritter slams US, Israeli "hype" over Iran's peaceful nuclear energyRitter: "Iran is not an aggressor. Iran has not attacked anybody. Iran is simply trying to do that which it is legally allowed to do: produce enriched uranium for the purposes of nuclear power. It's Israel ... creating crisis"
Even the French think Barack Obama is weak - UK TelegraphIt is shameful when the White House is accused of betrayal by close allies in eastern and central Europe, but utterly humiliating when even the Elysee Palace thinks the United States has been transformed from a lion to a lamb in the face of mounting global threats.
Was the Iranian Election 'Rigged'? Perhaps NotThis article cites a recent poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org and a pre-election poll to support the legitimacy of the 2009 Iranian Presidential election.
Black Sea Crisis Deepens As Threat To Iran GrowsAs early as January of 2007 reports on that score surfaced in Bulgarian and Romanian news sources.
Iranian artist denounces lack of freedom in filmVENICE (Reuters) - Iranian video artist Shirin Neshat has made her first feature film about women's lack of freedom and growing political involvement in 1953 Iran, but she said the story had strong parallels with the situation today.
UN Nuclear Watchdog: Iran nuclear threat hypedIran is not going to produce a nuclear weapon any time soon and the threat posed by its atomic program has been exaggerated, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in a published interview.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iranian protesters 'not agents'From the BBC article: Iran's supreme leader says he has seen no proof that opposition leaders blamed for the post-election unrest were agents of foreign powers. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments contradict accusations which have frequently been made by hardliners.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iranian ex-MPs challenge KhameneiHoly cow! A direct challenge by ex-MP's to remove the Supreme Leader (not the system)! Probably won't happen, but is significant.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Will Iran's Basij stay loyal?A look at Iran's Basij and how some members seem to be questioning their roles in the security forces.
"It's all about power, not religion" - why Iran's Revolutionary Guards are cracking downThe quasi-military entity that makes Turkey's military generals look like leftist pussy-cats: the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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