TEHRAN - Iran’s government says it plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants, upping the stakes in its tense standoff with international powers over its nuclear program. 
Iranian media reported Sunday that the Cabinet approved the construction of 10 new uranium enrichment plants just two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency censured Iran for […]

VIENNA - Members of the United Nations nuclear regulatory agency voted Friday to censure Iran’s nuclear activities, amid Western suspicions the country is developing atomic weapons.
Iran says the resolution “jeopardizes” the environment needed for productive international talks on its nuclear program.
The resolution, drafted by diplomats from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, […]

TEHRAN - Iran has begun military exercises simulating a defense against any attack on its nuclear facilities.  The United States and Israel have not ruled out a military option should negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program fail. 
A top official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps downplayed the threat of any Israeli attack.
Speaking Sunday on the first […]

MOSCOW - Russia says the controversial Bushehr nuclear power plant it is helping build in Iran will not go into service by the end of the year as planned. The announcement comes a day after President Dmitri Medvedev said his country is not completely satisfied with the pace of Iran’s international dialogue about its nuclear […]

TEHRAN - Iranian police have clashed with opposition demonstrators who tried to take over a government sanctioned protest organized to mark the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. A government crackdown on the anti-government demonstrators turned violent in some places.

An officially sponsored government rally devolved into rival protests Wednesday as […]

TEHRAN - Iran is reported to have rejected a United Nations-brokered uranium enrichment plan, while at the same time, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he welcomes nuclear cooperation with the West.
A Western official close to the negotiations says Iran told the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency that it will not accept the plan to ship its […]

TEHRAN - Iran has failed to accept a United Nations-backed proposal for uranium enrichment and has instead offered its own counterproposal.
Iranian state television is quoting an unidentified Iranian negotiator as saying Tehran has proposed that it purchase nuclear fuel for its reactor. The negotiator says Iran is awaiting a “positive and constructive” response to its […]

WASHINGTON - Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says a proposal to ease Western concerns about its nuclear program is “on the right track,” but that Iran needs time to evaluate it.
Iran’s IAEA ambassador, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, met Wednesday in Vienna with agency head Mohamed ElBaradei and officials from France, Russia, and […]

TEHRAN - An Iranian official says Tehran will not abandon its uranium enrichment activities, regardless of the outcome of talks with world powers.

A spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Shirzadian, made the comments to Iran’s state-run news agency (IRNA), just hours before talks begin in Vienna about Iran’s controversial nuclear program.

The discussions among representatives […]

TEHRAN - The Iranian government has accused Pakistan, Britain and the United States of supporting rebels it says carried out Sunday’s suicide bombing that killed six commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guards and at least 36 other people. 
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard chief, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said Monday that British and U.S. intelligence officials trained […]

TEHRAN - Iranian state media say several senior officers of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards are among at least 29 people killed in a suicide bomb attack Sunday in southeastern Iran.
The attack took place during a meeting between the Revolutionary Guards and tribal leaders. The state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) says a man wearing an […]

WASHINGTON - Diplomats say Iran has revealed the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant.
The diplomats say Iran sent a letter to the United Nations nuclear watchdog earlier this week disclosing the existence of the second plant.
Western nations accuse Iran of enriching uranium in order to produce a nuclear weapon.  The U.N. Security Council has […]

TEHRAN - A group of Iranian reformists is demanding an investigation into Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, questioning whether he is fit to lead.
A letter, issued Friday, asks one of Iran’s highest clerical bodies to examine whether the supreme leader has become incapable of fulfilling his “constitutional duties.”
Under Iran’s constitution, the Assembly of Experts has […]

WASHINGTON -  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Iran to release all Americans detained in the country, including three hikers arrested last month.
Clinton Saturday called on Iranian authorities to grant consular access to the three hikers, who were detained July 31.
Iranian television has described the three as spies who illegally entered the country.
Clinton said […]

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama’s national security advisor says Iran has confirmed it is holding three Americans who are believed to have strayed into Iranian territory while hiking in northern Iraq.
Retired General Jim Jones says the Iranian government has cleared up any doubts about the location of three missing Americans.
“The government has officially acknowledged that […]

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States may call for “stricter sanctions” against Iran if U.S. diplomatic efforts with Tehran fail.
Clinton commented late Tuesday in an an exclusive interview with Venezuela’s Globovision TV.
She responded to a question about how she perceived relations between Iran and Venezuela by saying “Iran has not […]

WASHINGTON - In the aftermath of the disputed Iranian presidential election, Tehran has hurled some of its sharpest rhetoric not at its traditional nemesis, the United States, but at Britain. Iran accused Britain of instigating protests, arrested some of its embassy workers and expelled a British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent. Britain has now ascended to the […]

TEHRAN - Iranian media reported Tuesday that the nation’s powerful Guardian Council has said it will not annul the results of the nation’s disputed presidential election, saying there were no major polling irregularities.

The council’s spokesman, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, said late Monday that most complaints centered around irregularities before the election, and not during or after […]

WASHINGTON - Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been declared the winner of Iran’s presidential election, while his main moderate challenger has denounced the results as “treason” and “dangerous manipulation.”
Iran’s interior minister, Sadeq Mahsouli, announced Saturday that President Ahmadinejad won 62.6 percent of the vote, beating out his reformist rival Mir Hossein Mousavi, who received 33.75 percent […]

WASHINGTON - Iranians lined up to vote Friday in a presidential election that has emerged as a tight race between the conservative incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the leading reformist candidate, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Polls were to remain open for 10 hours (until 6:00 pm local time or 1330 GMT), but election officials say […]

WASHINGTON - Iran has finished building its first nuclear power plant located south of the Persian Gulf city of Bushehr. It is expected to undergo testing soon before it becomes fully operational later this year. The plant was completed with significant assistance from Russia and took 35 years to build.
When the project started in 1974 […]

WASHINGTON - Before he was elected President of Iran in 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the Mayor of Tehran but he was largely unknown in the global arena. Just four years later, he is well known all over the world. This is a profile of the incumbent in the upcoming Iranian presidential elections.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a […]

TEHRAN - Iran says a U.S.-Iranian journalist who has been held at Tehran’s Evin prison since January, has been put on trial on charges of spying for the United States. The charges carry a possible death penalty.
A spokesman for Iran’s judiciary says American journalist Roxana Saberi, went on trial Monday and a verdict is expected […]

TEHRAN - Iran’s parliament speaker says U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent overture is not enough to repair 30 years of strained relations between Iran and the United States.
Ali Larijani said Wednesday that the dispute between the two countries is not an emotional issue that can be resolved by “sending congratulations.”
He says the United States has […]