TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran and Egypt have decided to restore full diplomatic relations and are expected do so within days, a top Iranian official declared after Tehran's city council removed a key sticking ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - If Iran's hardline clergy has had little trouble barring reformist candidates from parliament, it is finding it much tougher to keep dissent from spreading on the increasingly busy ...

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A relatively strong earthquake measuring 5.5 degrees on the Richter scale hit the city of Sarab in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan Monday night. According to the seismological base of ...

Gooya News - After two week of arrests and detentions of political activists and journalists, Fars News agency released a set of "confessions" from Amir Hossein Mahdavi a member of the Mousavi ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush will seek to reassure Americans on Tuesday that his tax cuts and war in Iraq will make the country safer and more prosperous in a State of the Union speech that ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday ruled out resigning over a ban on liberal candidates standing in parliamentary elections and said he would do all he could to ensure ...

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Thursday Iran must cooperate with the nuclear watchdog's efforts to monitor its atomic energy program ...

Iran will not restore diplomatic ties with the United States until there is a "fundamental change" in its policies towards the Islamic republic, Muhammad Khatami has said.

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