A protest by merchants selling gold and jewelry in Iran’s bazaar marketplaces will start its fourth week on Wednesday, triggered by the regime’s plan to add a tax of three percent on them. Discontent in the bazaars helped set the stage for the overth
On Sunday Iran's president called for U.S. leaders to be "buried" in response to what he says are American threats of military attack against Tehran's nuclear program.
In a series of taboo-breaking letters written from prison, activists, politicians and journalists - most of them arrested in the aftermath of President Ahmadinejad's disputed June 2009 election victory - have been telling tales of torture, criticizin
He programmed the pump to run for 3 seconds, gently inflating a balloon attached to the pump. O'Murchu then demonstrated how a Stuxnet infected PLC would instruct the pump to run, instead, for 140 seconds, quickly bursting the balloon.
Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destro
War profiteering has accompanied almost every armed conflict in human history, but rarely has it been so explicit. With each passing day, Israel and Iran move one step closer to military conflict. A recent Atlantic article even put the odds
TEHRAN, Iran — A complex computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has affected the personal computers of staff working at Iran's first nuclear power station weeks before the facility is to go online, the official news agency repo
The US delegation walked out of the UN speech of Iranian President Ahmadinejad after he said some in the world have speculated that Americans were behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, staged in an attempt to assure Israel's survival.
"Recently seven American troops were detained by Iranian guards in a southeastern province of the country ... Two Iranians accompanying the troops were also arrested," the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
"If Iran eventually acquires a nuclear capability that will be very dangerous, and a direct threat to the allies. That is the reason why I am now proposing a new and effective Nato missile defence system."
The site, code-named 311, is set inside a military base near Abyek, 75 miles outside the capital, and consists of a series of four bombproof tunnels made from reinforced concrete set 656ft (200m) deep inside a desert ridge.
At least five Iranian companies in Afghanistan's capital are using their offices covertly to finance Taliban militants in provinces near Kabul, according to an investigation by London's Sunday Times.
Iran is pushing ahead with its nuclear program in defiance of tougher sanctions and is hampering the UN atom watchdog's work by barring some inspectors, the IAEA says. It also voices continued concern about possible activities in Iran to develop a nu
A vocal female human rights activist and journalist went on trial in Iran "on charges of (warring against God), conspiring and gathering to commit a crime, propaganda against the regime and harming public order," which is punishable by death
The international community has to be prepared to take military action against Iran if the regime develops a nuclear weapon, Tony Blair has said in an interview to promote his memoirs, A Journey.
Iran's official newspaper, Kayhan, recently accused French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy of being a "prostitute" and called for her death after she criticized Iran's practice of stoning women.
The developers behind the Islamic center planned for a site near Ground Zero won't rule out accepting financing from Saudi Arabia and Iran as they begin searching for $100 million needed to build the project.
Iran has transferred assets out of European banks in its latest effort to defend itself against the effects of sanctions that are part of what Iranian officials have called an “economic war” against the country by the United States and other Western
Iran kicked off mass production of two high-speed missile-launching assault boats on Monday, warning its enemies not to "play with fire" as it boosts security along its coastline.
After US says Bushehr reactor not a proliferation risk, Israeli Foreign Ministry says country that 'so blatantly violates UN resolutions, IAEA decisions should not enjoy fruits of using nuclear energy'
The uranium fuel it will use is well below the enrichment level needed for a nuclear weapon. Weapons-grade uranium must be enriched by more than 90%. In contrast, the uranium at Bushehr is enriched by 3.5%.
Iranian and Russian nuclear technicians made final preparations to start up Iran's first reactor on Saturday after years of delays, an operation that will mark a milestone in what Tehran considers its right to produce nuclear energy.
The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran’s nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year — and perhaps longer — for Iran to complete what one senior official called a “dash” for a nuclear w
The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran’s nuclear program, has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year — and perhaps longer — for Iran to complete what one senior official called a “dash” for a nuclear w
Iran Air 744 is a bimonthly flight that originates in Tehran and flies directly to Caracas with periodic stops in Beirut and Damascus. The maiden flight was Feb. 2, 2007.