The Iranian File

January 8, 2010

17:34 GMT

The armoured car of a prominent Iranian opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, was hit by gunfire in the northern town of Qazvin

January 4, 2010

14:37 GMT

Iran said it arrested several foreigners during December 27 anti-government clashes tht left eight people killed

14:04 GMT

In an article in a leading British paper, the Independent, Ahrar Leader Ayad Jamal Aldin shows how the kidnapping ordeal of Peter Moore exposes Irania

December 30, 2009

20:03 GMT

The two leaders of Iran's opposition, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, have fled Tehran

10:40 GMT

Iranian police said on Wednesday that they are still holding 300 of the 500 rioters they detained on Sunday when opposition supporters staged protests

December 27, 2009

17:33 GMT

An Iranian opposition website said eight opposition supporters were killed on Sunday during clashes with police in Tehran and other cities such as Tab

December 22, 2009

12:12 GMT

Iran's president on Tuesday rejected a year-end deadline set by Washington for Tehran to accept a U.N.-drafted deal to swap enriched uranium for nucle

December 21, 2009

09:55 GMT

Tens of thousands of Iranians — many chanting protest slogans — joined the funeral procession Monday for the country's most senior dissident cleric, w

December 20, 2009

08:14 GMT

Iraq said on Sunday Iranian forces had withdrawn partially from a disputed oil well claimed by both sides.

December 18, 2009

15:25 GMT

Iraq's deputy foreign minister said Iranian soldiers had seized an oil well in southern Iraq along their border