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Members of an Iranian opposition group claimed Friday that Iraqi authorities are limiting their access to outside health care at a camp in northern Iraq where they have been under watch since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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.
As they gear up for a major anti-government protest Monday, Iranian students are besieged by a clampdown in the universities, with a wave of arrests and expulsions. At the same time, authorities are intensifying enforcement of Islamic morals on women's dress and men's hair length as a way to punish political dissent.
The first thing Farid Khavari PhD, a proud Iranian American running for Governor of Florida, would tell you is that he is not a politician: he is an economist. "I love this country. I'm going to live here in Florida until I die. I am running for governor to change this situation."
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's Security Forces have issued a public statement to the effect that police will not tolerate any "illegal" gatherings on December 7, the National Day of the Student. In Iran the National Day of Student is annually observed with numerous student gatherings in universities.
Mother of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young Iranian woman who was shot to death on the streets of Tehran during protests to the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, spoke out against Iranian government's efforts to portray her daughter's death as a foreign conspiracy.
I was delighted simply because someone - man or woman - had changed the emphasis of their work to men. Life for any kind of women, let alone a modern one in Iran, has not been easy in the past few decades and yes, we did suffer and still do, but who says that men do not as well? -Syma Sayyah, Tehran
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.
TEHRAN, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A U.S. intelligence review said Tehran could use oil as a diplomatic weapon by closing down the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media boasts.
A group of yachtsmen held briefly by Iran after their boat crossed into Iranian waters returned to Britain on Friday.
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.
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