Iran

February 24, 2013

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
11:30 GMT

Coming out of denial, Iran's President admits to facing economic difficulties in a rare televised acknowledgement.

A handout picture released by the official website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows Khamenei attending a meeting with Iranian Azeri ethnics in Tehran earlier this month. (AFP PHOTO/HO/IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER'S WEBSITE)
08:07 GMT

Despite international condemnation, the Persian state says it has found new uranium deposits and will be expanding its notorious nuclear program to include the new finds.

February 19, 2013

According to the report, Zygier was involved in exporting communications technology via a Mossad front company to Iran and other Middle Eastern states. (AFP)
08:02 GMT

According to the report, Zygier was involved in exporting communications technology via a Mossad front company to Iran and other Middle Eastern states.

February 18, 2013

A  man who was allegedly killed in mortar attacks at Camp Liberty, an exile camp housing Iranian dissidents near the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on February 9. Assailants fired dozens of mortars and rockets at the camp in a dawn attack that killed five people, the first deaths from violence since they resettled near Baghdad last year. (AFP Photo/HO/Mujahedeen-e-Khalq)
07:19 GMT

An Iranian opposition group whose refugee camp in Iraq was attacked with rockets earlier in February has briefed U.S. politicians on the fallout from the deadly raid.

February 14, 2013

American centrifuges enriching uranium (Photo credit: US Department of Energy/ Wikimedia Commons)
09:48 GMT

Iran attempts to purchase tens of thousands of magnets to be used for uranium enrichment, which would enable the country to expand its nuclear program, reports say.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
06:52 GMT

A top commander in Iran's notorious Revolutionary Guard has been killed in Lebanon, according to local reports.

February 13, 2013

Oil output in Iran dropped dramatically in 2012 due to sanctions, according to the IEA.
11:02 GMT

Sanctions on Iran caused the Islamic Republic’s oil revenue to drop by $40 billion in 2012, according to The International Energy Agency.

February 12, 2013

Iran is converting some of its higher-grade enriched uranium into reactor fuel.
13:30 GMT

Iran makes reactor fuel, calls for worldwide destruction of nuclear weapons.

February 11, 2013

A U.S. Marine points a weapon at gunmen who are surrendering after a Marine patrol confiscated their weapons on December 21, 1992, near the Parliament building along Mogadishu's green line. (AFP)
07:52 GMT

Islamist militants in Somalia are receiving arms from smuggling networks in Yemen and Iran, which may have operated through the African Union peacekeeping force.

February 10, 2013

Iran is "optimistic" over the new round of nuclear talks, according to the country's ambassador to the IAEA
10:56 GMT

Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Saturday that he is "optimistic" about a new round of nuclear talks, scheduled for later this month.

The capsule that was sent into space containing a live monkey in January is displayed during a rally in Tehran's Azadi Square (Freedom Square) to mark the 34th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
10:45 GMT

The government-sponsored march and address by the president brings scores of Iranians to the streets of the capital.

February 9, 2013

Iraqi women walk past the tomb of two unidentified Arab fighters buried in the Martyrs Cemetery of Baghdad. (AFP PHOTO/PATRICK BAZ)
08:27 GMT

Members of an Iranian opposition group, housed in Iraq for their own safety, have been attacked using mortars and rockets.

February 7, 2013

The Islamic Republic has claimed it managed to reverse-engineer the RQ-170 Sentinal drone.
10:51 GMT

The Islamic Republic has claimed it managed to reverse-engineer the RQ-170 Sentinal drone.

February 5, 2013

The Emirates national oil company, ENOC, is shunning Iranian oil in favour of Qatari crude
12:15 GMT

Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) signed an annual contract with Qatar's International Petroleum Marketing Company, the Emirati company said, as it aims to cut imports from Iran of extra light oil.

February 4, 2013

Iran's former Central Bank boss is thought to have been arrested on suspicion of money laundering
11:35 GMT

Iran's former central bank chief is thought to have been arrested at a German airport with a cheque for $70 million on suspicion of money laundering. Could he be trying to help out his former bosses in the Islamic Republic?