In this photo taken Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, Christians attend the Christmas mass at the St. Grigor Armenian Catholic church in Tehran, Iran. Iran has arrested about 70 Christians since Christmas in a crackdown that demonstrates the limits of religious tolerance by Islamic leaders who often boast they provide room for other faiths. Iran has arrested about 70 Christians since Christmas in a crackdown... 

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki flew to Nigeria on Thursday to discuss an arms shipment seized in the West African state last month which diplomats have said could put Tehran in breach of United Nations sanctions. Nigerian Foreign Minister Odein Ajumogobia said his Iranian counterpart had pledged Tehran’s cooperation with investigations into the shipment, intercepted by Nigeria’s... 

The website of former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has announced that authorities have blocked it without explanation. A statement on Khatami.ir said a government committee had decided to filter the website, which on Thursday could only be reached from inside Iran through proxy servers. While the site was not known to be controversial, Khatami, president from 1997 to 2005, supported opposition... 

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran will announce good news on nuclear energy in near future. “We have messages about new nuclear achievements which will be announced within the next few months,” IRNA quoted Salehi as saying on Wednesday. According to the Iranian official,... 

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith delivers his speech during the opening of the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction in Jakarta Australia says it will impose new sanctions on Iran, joining the United States, Canada, European Union, and United Nations. Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Thursday that the sanctions, aimed at persuading Iran to halt its nuclear program,... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a news conference in Tehran, June 28, 2010 In an interview aired on Iranian state television Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on “at least two countries” in the Middle East in the next three months. Ahmadinejad did not specify whether he thought Iran itself would be... 

Shahram Amiri is reunited with his son at Imam Khomeini airport near Tehran An Iranian scientist who says he was abducted and taken to the United States by the CIA returned to Tehran yesterday to a hero’s welcome and claimed that he had been pressured into lying about his country’s nuclear programme. Shahram Amiri said that he was on the hajj pilgrimage when he was seized at gunpoint in... 

UN Security Council members vote on broader military and financial sanctions on Iran The US has warned India to honour UN sanctions against Iran after its foreign secretary criticised “unilateral” measures against Tehran over suspicions it is developing a nuclear weapons programme. Phillip J. Crowley, a spokesman for the US State Department, said it was for India to decide what individual... 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced today that they are in new talks with Iran on construction of additional nuclear power plants in the nation, and that they may still deliver the S-300 Missile Defense System to Iran, though no date was given for this delivery. The comments came on the heels of a State Department statement praising Russia for not delivering the S-300 yet, though... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday U.S. dollars are “worthless paper” that the U.S. government injects into the world economy in exchange for goods and services. Continuing with his U.S. bashing at a press conference in Shanghai, he said the U.S. deficit is “theft of the wealth of other nations.” The Iranian president was attending the World Expo’s... 

US is Sending Up To 4 New Carrier Groups In Region Debkafile’s military sources report a decision by the Obama administration to boost US military strength in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf regions in the short term with an extra air and naval strike forces and 6,000 Marine and sea combatants. Carrier Strike Group 10, headed by the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, sails out of the US... 

Robert Gates A secret memo by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates urges Washington to consider the use of military force against Iran if diplomacy fails to scrap the country’s nuclear program. In what seems to be a new twist in US efforts to tackle Iran’s enrichment activities, The New York Times reveals that a three-page memorandum, which has been circulating in Washington since January,... 

U.S. President Obama and China's President Hu Jintao, left, on Monday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the American news network CBS on Tuesday that an Israeli military attack against Iran would be “disastrous” and that Israel must understand that “we are determined to ensure its security.” Hours before U.S. President Barack Obama opened a landmark summit of 47 nations... 

Dai Bingguo refused to meet the Israelis The prime minister of contract murder, Binyamin Netanyahu, was not long permitted to rejoice over the agreement to sanction Iran which he had wrested from the Russian leadership. A few days later, China made it clear that it would in no case help to carry out such sanctions. Consequently, Netanyahu believed it necessary to pay a visit to the Chinese leadership,... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a “big fabrication” that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported. Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West and Israel, made the comment in a meeting with Intelligence Ministry personnel. It came amid escalating tension in the long-running...