Iran
June 6, 2013
The waivers were granted to major oil importers China, India, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Taiwan.
Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahri, issued a statement on Thursday, urging the Syrian population to rise up against Assad as well as US forces, which he said were trying to turn Syria into a political tool against Iran.
June 5, 2013
A global network of private companies were blacklisted by the United States on Tuesday for providing revenue to the Iranian government's leadership and helping it evade the pinch from international sanctions on Tehran's nuclear program,
The supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spoken out in favour of the Guardian Council's ruling to bar two candidates from running in the June 14 elections
June 4, 2013
A top Iraqi minister warned Israel that it cannot use its airspace to attack Iran.
June 3, 2013
Iran says it has thwarted an alleged terror network backed by Israeli intelligence that was plotting to disrupt the upcoming presidential elections
June 2, 2013
The moderate candidate had criticized heightened security measures during a rally in which pictures of the detained opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi were displayed
After the Palestinian movement Hamas sided with Sunni fighters in the Syrian civil war, Iran has cut its funding.
May 29, 2013
The US is uneasy with the prospect of an Iranian presence at the peace conference, as they aim to keep the Islamic Republic isolated through wide ranging economic sanctions
May 27, 2013
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah can be seen in a video recently made public, believed to have been made in 1988, showing him talking of his wishes to make Lebanon part of a Greater Islamic Republic.
The recent banning of two key presidential candidates in the Iranian elections have made the path to power easier for conservatives running in the election easier, observers say.
May 26, 2013
A senior Iranian legislator said the Iranian type of the US drone which was tracked and hunted down in Iran late in 2011 will have its first flight in the near future.
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, an Iranian student in Chicago, won $19,500 for her short film "Needle" at the Cannes Film Festival short film competition.
The French Foreign Ministry criticized the vetting process for the upcoming presidential elections
May 23, 2013
Former President criticised the Iranian establishment just days after he was disqualified from running in June's presidential elections