South Korea’s Kia Motors, whose Pride model is ubiquitous on Iranian roads, said Tuesday it had suspended exports to the Islamic state partly in response to Seoul’s nuclear-related sanctions. “South Korean government sanctions... were...

Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today launched an angry attack on “doomed” US-brokered Middle East peace talks and urged the Palestinians to continue armed resistance to Israel. Ahmadinejad used the annual al-Quds (Jerusalem)...

The authorities in Iran have announced that a woman convicted of adultery will not be stoned to death. But it is not clear whether they have lifted the death sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who has been in prison in Tabriz since 2006. The...

Shahram Amiri, a university researcher working for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, disappeared during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia a year ago and Tehran accused Riyadh of handing him over to the United States, which Saudi Arabia has...

An Iranian nuclear scientist who has been missing since last June has defected to the US, a report says. ABC News said Shahram Amiri had been resettled in the US and was helping the CIA in its efforts to block Iran’s nuclear programme. Mr Amiri...

Mr Karroubi was in the bullet-proofed car when it was attacked in the northern town of Qazvin. But his party’s website said only the windows were damaged.

An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country’s most powerful man to his face. Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge...

Tens of thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran yesterday to hear the country’s most influential powerbroker pronounce the Islamic Republic in crisis and as he called for the release of those arrested in recent pro-democracy...

Was anyone really fooled by this sham election? From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The leader of a hard-line Islamic group, however, praised the outcome. “I’m glad and happy to know Iran’s...

A suggestion by the Iranian Ambassador to Britain that his country should foster closer links with Scotland than with England was treated with a mixture of bemusement and horror by Scottish politicians yesterday. Praising what he saw as Scotland’s...