Computer systems at Iran’s first nuclear-power plant have been infected with a potent worm capable of taking over their control systems, Iranian officials said, citing the most significant example yet of potential dangers posed by the so-called...

Iranian authorities have been issuing confusing statements about an explosion in the southern province of Bushehr. The cause of the blast near Daylam remains unclear, but officials are now saying it was caused by a controlled explosion in a dam...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that Iran will stand beside any country in the region that is threatened. “Iran will stand on the side of any country in the region which comes under pressure or is threatened,” Ahmadinejad said in an...

Iran is greatly curbing its once-lofty ambitions to become a major liquefied natural-gas exporter, a reversal that energy executives and analysts tie to the country’s difficulty accessing Western technology amid fresh international sanctions. In...

Iran’s top security body has riled against the latest U.N. sanctions imposed over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program, saying they show world powers are applying a double standard. The Supreme National Security Council says the U.S. and...

The authorities in Iran have closed down the country’s biggest-circulation reformist newspaper, Etemaad, accusing it of breaching media laws. They also suspended publication of a weekly reformist paper whose managing director is the son of one of...

Disputed outcome of the Iranian elections has become a staple diet for the world media ever since its announcement. Media is flushed with stories regarding social media spreading Iranian defiance online against the results. Many believe that...

Iran’s electoral commission says votes counted so far in the presidential poll show that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been re-elected. Mr Ahmadinejad has 65% of the vote with 80% counted and has claimed victory in an election that drew a large...

DUBAI: Iran has said it is ready for India’s participation as a third partner in the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project that was finalised on Sunday. There would be no obstacle for India’s joining to the deal, Hassan Qashqavi, Irans Foreign Ministry...

Eighteen years ago, Rashin Soodmand’s father was hanged in Iran for converting to Christianity. Now her brother is in a Mashad jail, and expects to be executed under new religious laws brought in this summer.