A Tehran court has begun hearing the trial of dozens of defendants in a $2.6 billion fraud case. The chief prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi, on February 18 read the indictment against the 32 accused at the opening session at the…
Iranian warships have passed through Egypt's Suez Canal and entered the Mediterranean Sea, in a move likely to be watched closely by Israel.
Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state's lifeblood, oil.
Belgium's Society for Worldwide International Financial Telecommunication, or Swift, is preparing to ban sanctioned Iranian banks and companies from using its financial communications and clearing system, the organization said Friday.
The U.S. Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Iran's main intelligence organization, accusing it of supporting terrorist groups, committing human rights abuses, and backing the Syrian government's lethal crackdown on its citizens.
The Iranian regime has been helping Syria circumvent international sanctions imposed for the brutal slaughter of its civilians, according to documents from the Syrian president's office.
The Iranian regime continued its sustained crackdown on the press, arresting a blogger, handing a journalist a harsh prison term, and banning a reformist news publication, according to news reports. The regime has also announced the mass…
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Tehran has added 3,000 new generation centrifuges to its Natanz facility, increasing the production of 3.5 percent enriched uranium by 50 percent.
Iranian security forces deployed in parts of Tehran on Tuesday after opposition figures called on supporters to hit the streets in protest against the year-long house arrest of their leaders, the opposition website Kaleme reported.
The Tehran Governor has announced that the authorities are prepared to confront any attempt to hold public demonstrations on February 14.
Kurdistan Press Agency
