Tehrān News

A closed-door meeting of six world powers signaled growing impatience with Iran's inscrutability on its nuclear program, coming a day after US President Barak Obama in Asia said Iran would face "consequences" if it refused to show good faith. The...

The government of Pakistan is expected to hand the alleged perpetrators of an October bombing in southern Iran over to Tehran, Iranian leaders said. Pakistani ties with Iran soured in the wake of an Oct. 19 bombing at a conference...

A key UN committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election. Citing arbitrary arrests, detentions and the disappearance of Iranians exercising their right to freedom of assembly and...

The United States and its allies know full well that Iran has no intention of developing nuclear weapons, former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said. "The U.S. and the West are well aware that the Islamic republic of Iran has...

TEHRAN: About 130,000 people in Iran become addicted to drugs each year, the Iranian police chief said, acknowledging the scale of the problem for a country on a key heroin trafficking route. In comments published on Sunday, Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, who...

Monday tweaked its policy on disclosure of fees paid to placement agents. But board members of the giant pension fund deferred action on proposals to toughen its standards even more. In May, as the placement agent issue was just starting...

Iran's Health Ministry reported on Wednesday that 42 more Iranians died this week from the swine flu, adding that 466 new confirmed A-H1N1 cases brought the total identified cases in the country to 3128. The Parliamentary Education Commission said 17...

During the past week, 42 people died of A(H1N1) flu...It said a total of 3,128 people have now been diagnosed with the illness in Iran, where a first swine flu death was reported on August 26 as that of a...