Iran reports safety concerns at nuclear plant

Fuel that would power Iran's first nuclear energy facility is being removed from the reactor this weekend because of unspecified safety...

Iran increases uranium stockpile, U.N. agency says

Iran increased its stockpile of low-enriched uranium in recent months despite intense international pressure and claims that a computer...

Fear grows in Israel over backlash from Egypt

Israel's so-called cold peace with Egypt is looking colder by the day.

Iran opposition movement denounced at pro-government rally in Tehran

Thousands of Iranian government supporters gathered for a Friday prayer sermon rally meant to counter the resurgent opposition movement that...

Protests grow more violent across Middle East, North Africa

A wave of anti-government anger continued to sweep in a crescent from the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea as tens of thousands of people...

In Iran, Bahrain and Yemen, protesters take to streets

Three more Middle Eastern governments came under assault from thousands of street demonstrators, a sign of widening reverberations from...

Iranians rally to mark 1979 revolution, Egyptian uprising

Chanting anti-U.S. slogans, thousands of Iranians marched in Tehran to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that...

2 American hikers in Iranian prison plead not guilty

Two Americans imprisoned in Iran for 18 months had their first official court hearing Sunday and pleaded not guilty to charges including...

Iran's supreme leader calls uprisings an 'Islamic awakening'

Iran's supreme leader called for the end of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's rule, saying Friday that the political upheaval in the Arab...

Nuclear negotiations with Iran end in failure

A high-stakes international standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions came no closer a resolution Saturday as the latest round of talks aimed...

Iran won't let Tehran mayor travel to U.S.

Iran's Foreign Ministry has barred the mayor of Tehran, a rival of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, from traveling to the...

Iran says uranium enrichment is not up for discussion

Iranian officials declared at the start of two days of diplomatic talks in Turkey on Friday that they would not discuss suspension of...

Iraq's Muqtada Sadr reportedly returns to Iran

Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr, who arrived in Iraq this month after spending nearly four years away, has returned to Iran, two...

A new round of Iran nuclear talks, and some optimism this time

Western diplomats meeting with Iranian officials in Turkey beginning Friday are hoping for at least modest gains in trying to get the...

Iran's nuclear program and a new era of cyber war

Just a few months ago, U.S. and Israeli officials were warning that Iran was a year away from having the capability to rapidly build a...

Hollywood shines light on director Jafar Panahi's sentencing in Iran

White may be making a comeback on the red carpet this award season, if Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis has anything to say about it.

Iran human rights lawyer's sentence criticized

The sentencing of a leading Iranian human rights lawyer to 11 years in prison has resulted in a chorus of international condemnation.

U.S. urges continued pressure on Iran

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that there is growing evidence that Iran has suffered a setback in its suspected...

U.S. denies Iranian report of American's arrest

Confusion continued to surround the fate of a woman described as an American spy Saturday by a high-ranking Iranian security official who...

Ahmadinejad speaks in rebuilt Lebanese town near Israel

Iran's controversial president on Thursday traveled to within a few miles of his nation's archrival Israel and delivered a pointed if...