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Bahrain: suspects say had contact with Iran
Nov 13, 2011 13:09 EST
DUBAI (Reuters) - Members of a cell arrested before they could carry out attacks on Bahrain's Interior Ministry and the Saudi Arabian embassy had been in contact with Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, Bahrain's state news agency BNA reported Sunday.
Iran military blast death toll revised down to 17
Nov 12, 2011 12:17 EST
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guards revised down the number of people killed in an explosion at one of its military bases near Tehran on Saturday to 17.
Iran military arsenal blast death toll rises to 27
Nov 12, 2011 10:28 EST
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The death toll from a massive blast at an arms depot on an Iranian military base on Saturday has risen to 27, state broadcaster IRIB said on its website.
Huge blast rocks military base near Tehran
Nov 12, 2011 07:11 EST
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A massive explosion at a military weapons depot near the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday killed several people and was felt at least 45 km (30 miles) away, local media reported.
West seeks new Iran sanctions over nuclear report
Nov 09, 2011 14:16 EST
PARIS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Western leaders called on Wednesday for expanded sanctions against Iran over a U.N. watchdog report that it has worked to design atom bombs, but veto-wielder Russia indicated it would block new measures at the U.N. Security Council.
West seeks new Iran sanctions over nuclear report
Nov 09, 2011 14:16 EST
PARIS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Western leaders called on Wednesday for expanded sanctions against Iran over a U.N. watchdog report that it has worked to design atom bombs, but veto-wielder Russia indicated it would block new measures at the U.N. Security Council.
Iranians fear sanctions, not war, after UN report
Nov 09, 2011 11:30 EST
TEHRAN (Reuters) - When a huge thunder storm rattled windows across Tehran on Sunday night, some of the Iranian capital's jumpier residents awoke thinking Israel was finally making good on its threat to attack.
Iran says it is still open to nuclear talks
Nov 09, 2011 09:52 EST
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran remains ready to engage in negotiations with world powers concerned about its nuclear program, but only if the other parties show it due respect, its Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
IAEA report on Iran set to stoke Middle East tension
Nov 06, 2011 04:44 EST
VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog is expected this week to issue its most detailed report yet on research in Iran seen as geared to developing atomic bombs, heightening international suspicions of Iranian intentions and fuelling Middle East tension.
Iran parliament renews move to summon Ahmadinejad
Oct 31, 2011 08:06 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's parliament has revived its threat to call in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning, with more lawmakers signing a summons that could ultimately lead to the president's impeachment, media reported on Monday.
Iran says wants relations with U.S., but not now
Oct 29, 2011 10:54 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran would like to have friendly relations with the United States one day, but not under current conditions, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday.
Iran's Ahmadinejad says West set to plunder Libya
Oct 25, 2011 07:48 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Western countries supported Muammar Gaddafi when it suited them but bombed the Libyan leader when he no longer served their purpose in order to "plunder" the north African country's oil wealth, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
Iran says happy to examine U.S. plot allegations
Oct 17, 2011 08:44 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it would examine "seriously and patiently" U.S. allegations it planned to assassinate a Saudi ambassador and called on Washington to send evidence of the plot it has dismissed as baseless propaganda.
Iran says happy to examine U.S. plot allegations
Oct 17, 2011 08:44 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it would examine "seriously and patiently" U.S. allegations it planned to assassinate a Saudi ambassador and called on Washington to send evidence of the plot it has dismissed as baseless propaganda.
Iran could scrap directly elected president: leader
Oct 16, 2011 10:21 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran could do away with the post of a directly elected president, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, in what might be a warning to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and possible successors not to overstep the executive's limited powers.
Iran gives opposition chief break from house arrest
Oct 10, 2011 09:03 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karoubi was briefly freed from house arrest to see his family at the weekend, his website said, a move indicating that authorities might ease conditions for thehmm lderly cleric after eight months' detention.
Iran cinemas threaten to close over financial woe
Oct 04, 2011 12:50 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's cinema owners have threatened to close their movie houses to protest against costs that have soared since energy subsidies were slashed last year, sending a highly visible message of opposition to the government's key economic policy.
Texas nuclear physics student on trial in Iran
Oct 04, 2011 12:49 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian studying nuclear physics in the United States went on trial in Tehran on Tuesday for having contact with "hostile countries," his lawyer said.
Americans' lawyer barred from leaving Iran
Oct 03, 2011 10:38 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The defense lawyer for two Americans released by Iran after more than two years in jail on spying charges has been barred from leaving the country, a judiciary official told the ISNA news agency on Monday.
Ousted Iran bank chief says he is scandal fall guy
Sep 28, 2011 11:17 EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The former head of a bank at the center of Iran's biggest ever financial scandal said on Wednesday he had been made a scapegoat by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government which is under mounting pressure over the record $2.6 billion scam.
