Iran
May 10, 2000
Iran opened a visa section Tuesday on its Gulf island of Qeshm to boost tourism to the mainland. The island is one of the three free trade zones in Ir
The World Bank's board of directors delayed voting on two controversial loans to Iran, leaving consideration of the already postponed $231 million in
Journalists and photographers were allowed briefly to enter the courtroom before a widely followed trial of 13 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Is
May 9, 2000
A delegation of Russia's lower chamber of parliament, the Duma, arrived here Monday with a message from newly installed Russian President Vladimir
May 8, 2000
Iranian Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani, one of the main betes noires of the conservatives, Sunday roundly denied press reports earlier in the da
The judge in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews rejected a defense request Monday for the closed-door proceedings to be made open to the public, court spoke
May 5, 2000
The polling stations opened Friday in 52 towns in Iran for the second round of general elections, Iran radio reported, with reformers staggering from
May 2, 2000
Iran is for the first time allowing camel-owners to insure their animals, with the government to pay 50 percent of the premiums, the official IRNA new
Six people were wounded, one seriously, in a mortar attack in northern Tehran on Monday evening claimed by the outlawed armed opposition, state televi
The lead suspect in the closed-door espionage trial of 13 Iranian Jews confessed on state television Monday, saying he had betrayed his homeland by sp
May 1, 2000
The main suspect in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews, Hamid Tefilin, confessed Monday before the Shiraz revolutionary court to the charge of spying for Is
April 30, 2000
Thousands of Iranian workers held a May Day march Sunday in central Tehran, chanting slogans against a recently passed law enabling employers with few
The trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel gets under way Monday behind closed doors, with officials continuing to insist it will be fa
April 29, 2000
An Iranian soccer player in Tehran has been suspended for six months and fined a sum of $1,200 for celebrating his goal by taking his shirt off and p
The conservative-dominated Iranian press court has suspended the fundamentalist Jebheh (Front) paper, Iranian state radio announced Saturday. Jebhe