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Hundreds of people are executed every year in Iran. Balal, thanks to the actions of his victim's mother, will not be one of them.

Iranian president touts Tehran's military might but tells crowd at an annual parade that the country supports dialogue, not war.

A corporate jet with a small American flag decal on the tail, which arrived despite complex trade rules against doing business with Iran, at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2014.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran's state TV said a magnitude 5.3 earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated district in the south of the country.

International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and Iranian technicians disconnect the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium production at nuclear power plant of Natanz, some 300 kilometres south of Tehran A monthly update by the IAEA says that Iran has cut its most sensitive stockpile of nuclear material by 75 percent, ... (more)

H.E. Ambassador Farhad Sepahbody, a distinguished career diplomat during the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, died in exile at his home in Sedona, Arizona, on Sunday, 6 April 2014.

The father and mother of Abdolah Hosseinzadeh, who was murdered in a knife fight in 2007, remove the noose from his killer's neck.

WAM TEHRAN, 17th April, 2014 -- An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale struck an area near the town of Shanbeh in Bushehr province, Southern Iran, early Thursday morning.

The Tabriz University of Medical Sciences prepared a program presenting benefits to Azerbaijanis arriving for treatment in Iran, and a special suite in one of the hospitals of the country.

Iran's state TV says a magnitude 5.3 earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated district in the south of the country.

Iran will sway West to allow it to have permanent near nuclear break-out capability, if it exchanges reduced plutonium production capacity, dilution of medium-level enriched uranium for permanent enrichment capabilities of low-level uranium.

Earlier this week, Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Reza Taghipour denied his department's involvement in jamming satellite signals, and said the ministry was "seriously" pursuing the case.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will travel to Russia next week for a meeting of the countries that border the Caspian Sea, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Disciplinary Affairs Ali Abdollahi said here Tuesday that expansion of ties with the Persian Gulf Arab neighbours is Iran's fundamental policy, Iran's IRAN reported.

Iran plans to boost trade and economic ties with the Caspian littoral countries via Anzali port in the country's northern Gilan province.

Water shortfalls may affect half of Iran's population by this summer if consumption isn't cut by as much as 20 percent, its deputy energy minister said.

India's dream of connecting to Afghanistan via Iran could soon move a step closer to reality if New Delhi, Tehran and Kabul sign off on a draft memorandum of understanding on transit trade that has been finalised recently.

KARACHI: Artscene Gallery has inaugurated a solo exhibition 'Peer-e-Meikadeh' by an Iran based renowned artist Dr Mohsen Keiany featuring detailed work on the poetries of legendary Persian poet Hafiz Shirazi on Tuesday.Over 30 paintings are on display, whereas a large number of people including art lovers, art critics and notables attended the ... (more)

A scene from "1+1", which was performed by an Iranian-Italian troupe during the 31st Fajr International Theater Festival in January 2013 TEHRAN Iranian director Omid Niaz and his Italian colleague Guglielmo Papa have united again to stage the children's play "1+1" in Iranian cities of Isfahan, Yazd and Shiraz.

Despite Iran's efforts to jam satellite channels and the crackdown on satellite dishes, many Iranians -- according to some estimates more than half -- watch foreign satellite TV channels.