Iran News

Gasoline produced in Iran does not comply with international standards, head of the Environmental Protection Organisation, Massoumeh Ebtekar said on Dec.5, IRNA agency reported.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard has arrested 16 activists accused of providing material to "anti-government websites", state media said Wednesday, according to The Associated Press .

The Islamic Republic of Iran is home to over 77 million people. The vast majority of them share the exact same hopes and dreams of the vast majority of Americans - a good, nutritious meal on the dinner table, a home and neighborhood safe from violence and crime, a better future for their children.

A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says there's no evidence yet that Iran is violating last month's nuclear accord with world powers.

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh talks to journalists as he arrives at his hotel ahead of an OPEC meeting in Vienna, Dec. 3. In May 2003 I attended a closed international conference.

The scene of a suicide bombing, engineered by Hamed, at the Cafe Hillel coffee shop in Jerusalem, September 9, 2003 Iranian money being held in the US will be paid out to victims of a 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem, a San Diego federal court ruled Tuesday.

The White House warned Congress that passing new sanctions on Iran -- even with a delayed launch date -- would give Tehran an excuse to undermine an interim nuclear deal.

They didn't tell me I had the right to see a lawyer. They handcuffed me, blindfolded me and took me to a cell.

Iran is reportedly talking to Russia about building two more nuclear plants in Bushehr province, according to a senior official who spoke to an Iranian media outlet on Tuesday.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday: "I am not of the opinion that Israel is prepared to attack Iran's nuclear facilities without a green light from the Americans."

Who believes the government in Iran has had an epiphany and suddenly wants to shed its rogue-nation status and sing Kumbaya with the rest of the world? Not us.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president, and Elmar Mammadyarov, Azerbaijan's foreign minister attend the ECO council of ministers in Tehran, Iran on Nov. 26. While Congress debates the new agreement with Iran to halt its nuclear advances, a series of regulatory changes that took effect last month pose an ... (more)

The " Joint Plan of Action " signed with Iran by the so-called P5+1 on Nov. 24 in Geneva caused Shiite Arabs to celebrate, Sunni Arabs to worry, and Saudis to panic.

Iran's foreign ministry says a U.S. security deal with Kabul is not "useful" for Afghanistan, and also impact "regional issues" negatively.

Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi is slated to visit the Islamic Republic of Iran later this month to hold talks with senior Iranian officials on issues of mutual interest as well as regional and international developments, Press TV reported.

Seeking to create an analogy for the deal the United States negotiated with Iran to supposedly limit further production of its centrifuges, Secretary of State John Kerry chose to recall disarmament agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Two upgraded missile-launching warships, named the Neizeh and the Tabarzin , and an upgraded logistic warship, named the Sirjan, rejoined the Iranian Navy in a ceremony held on Sunday in the southern port city of Bushehr.

A group of Afghan migrant workers enter Afghan territory after leaving Iran at the Islam Qala border in Herat province November 5, 2012.

Bijan Zanganeh returns this week to the same Vienna hotel suite he last occupied eight years ago as Iranian oil minister, ready to prepare OPEC for what Tehran hopes will mark its return as the cartel's second biggest producer.

The contours of the Grand Bargain between the United States and Russia are becoming clearer as the the two countries are reassuming equal seats in maturing the deal.