TEHRAN: A petition to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to parliament for questioning over a long list of accusations, including corruption, failed Wednesday after some lawmakers withdrew their support for the motion, an Iranian legislator (...)
TEHRAN: Fuel consumption has fallen by a fifth since the government began slashing energy and food subsidies earlier this month, a top government official said Wednesday, claiming an early sign of success in the controversial program.
Gasoline (...)
TEHRAN: Iran's opposition leaders said that a "dark future" awaits the economy because the government didn't listen to economists when it slashed energy and food subsidies in a country already struggling under biting U.N. sanctions.
Former (...)
TEHRAN: The human impact from the wrangling between Iran and the West over its nuclear program could fall first in nuclear medicine clinics around the country, where hundreds of cancer patients a week get treatment with radioactive isotopes.
Iran (...)
TEHRAN: Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start-up of a facility that the US once hoped to stop over fears of Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Iranian and Russian engineers started (...)
TEHRAN: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was holding talks Tuesday with Iranian leaders expected to focus on boosting cooperation between the countries' oil, gas and petrochemical industries.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warmly greeted (...)
TEHRAN: Iran on Wednesday said 18 members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard were killed in an explosion that struck the force's base in the country's west a day earlier.
The state IRNA news agency said 14 other Guard troops were wounded in (...)
TEHRAN: Iran's leader issued a decree that paves the way for a state takeover of the country's largest private university, in a crushing blow to the nation's moderates.
The Islamic Azad University is the center of power for former President Akbar (...)
UNITED NATIONS: Representatives from developing nations railed at the world's rich nations for failing to fulfill their commitments to increase financial aid, reiterating that developed nations are responsible for challenges like global warming that (...)
TEHRAN: Iran has obtained four S-300 surface-to-air missiles despite Russia's refusal to deliver them to Tehran under a valid contract, a semiofficial Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday.
The Fars news agency, which has ties to Iran's elite (...)
YASOUJ, Iran: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday dismissed the threat of new international sanctions, saying any UN resolution punishing Iran for its refusal to stop uranium enrichment "won't be worth a cent."
The United States has said (...)
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran's intelligence agents mounted a "complicated" cross-border operation and freed an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in 2008 by gunmen in northwestern Pakistan, state television reported Tuesday.
The agents rescued Heshmatollah (...)