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Iranian authorities have rounded up scores of student activists in a bid to head off what several young people said will be massive demonstrations on university campuses across the country Monday. Monday is National Students Day, named for the day in 1953 when armed forces entered the campus of Tehran University and killed three students protesting the government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi ...
Iranian authorities have rounded up scores of student activists in a bid to head off what several young people said will be massive demonstrations on university campuses across the country Monday. Monday is National Students Day, named for the day in 1953 when armed forces entered the campus of Tehran University and killed three students protesting the government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi ...
Powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani called on Iran's warring political factions to stand together against foreign pressure on Tehran over its nuclear programme, the ISNA new agency reported on Thursday.
Iran's defiant pursuit of its nuclear programme has tested the patience of Moscow and Beijing and increased the chances that they might support sanctions against Tehran, analysts said on Friday.
Iranian authorities warned opposition supporters against holding any protests when university students mark the annual Students Day on Monday.
An Iranian nuclear official says Tehran will not answer to the U.N. nuclear watchdog beyond the barest minimum required under the international nonproliferation treaty.
TEHRAN, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Iran will fuel its defiance of world powers by producing high-grade uranium for its nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Iran would enrich uranium to a higher level itself, apparently ruling out a U.N.-brokered deal meant to minimize the risk of Tehran producing material for atomic bombs.
Scores of prominent international figures called Wednesday on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to release three US hikers who have been held in detention for more than four months.
Washington, 4 December (WashingtonTV)—Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday hailed his country’s growing ties with Brazil, during a short visit by Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim.
An Iranian arms dealer who tried to illegally purchase U.S. weapons for the Tehran government was secretly charged, arrested and extradited, and has pleaded guilty, federal authorities revealed Wednesday.
An Iranian man has pleaded guilty to U.S. charges he illegally bought an array of military equipment for Tehran as it prepared for a possible war with the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Thousands of students at Tehran University called on Reformist leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi to take part in National Student Day events Dec. 7.
A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Iran will itself enrich uranium up to 20 percent purity in a blow to Western efforts to stop Tehran's sensitive nuclear activities.
Tehran quietly helped the U.S. overthrow the Taliban in 2001. But as tensions with the West mount, Iran's interests in cooperating in Afghanistan may be trumped by more hostile priorities
A group of yachtsmen held briefly by Iran after their boat crossed into Iranian waters returned to Britain on Friday.
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