News: Iran

We have started to collect the most important news related to Iran in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to Iran – overview

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• November 21st 2012 – September 17th 2012
• September 13th 2012 – August 1st 2012
• July 31st 2012 – May 22nd 2012
• May 22nd 2012 – March 17th 2012
• March 15th 2012 – February 20th 2012
• February 19th 2012 – January 15th 2012
• January 15th 2012 – December 18th 2011
• December 16th 2011 – November 9th 2011
• November 8th 2011 – August 28th 2011
• August 23rd 2011 – May 1st 2011
• April 29th 2011 – January 29th 2011
• January 26th 2011 – December 14th 2010
• December 14th 2010 – November 3rd 2010
• November 1st 2010 – September 22nd 2010
• September 21st 2010 – August 4th 2010
• August 4th 2010 – June 30th 2010
• June 30th 2010 – May 13th 2010
• May 12th 2010 – March 15th 2010
• March 10th 2010 – February 4th 2010
• February 4th 2010 – December 23rd 2009
• December 23rd 2009 – December 1st 2009
• December 1st 2009 – November 2nd 2009
• November 2nd 2009 – September 28th 2009
• September 28th 2009 – August 28th 2009
• August 28th 2009 – July 28th 2009
• July 28th 2009 – July 4th 2009
• July 3rd 2009 – May 31st 2009
• May 30th 2009 – April 16th 2009
• April 15th 2009 – February 4th 2009
• February 3rd 2009 – October 24th 2008
• October 24th 2008 – August 5th 2008
• August 4th 2008 – June 20th 2008
• June 20th 2008 – April 16th 2008
• April 16th 2008 – January 29th 2008
• January 28th 2008 – November 29th 2007
• November 27th 2007 – October 4th 2007
• October 3rd 2007 – August 15th 2007
• August 14th 2007 – June 13th 2007
• June 13th 2007 – April 28th 2007
• April 26th 2007 – March 27th 2007
• March 27th 2007 – February 24th 2007
• February 23rd 2007 – January 15th 2007
• January 14th 2007 – November 16th 2006
• November 15th 2006 – September 21st 2006
• September 20th 2006 – July 30th 2006
• July 29th 2006 – June 1st 2006
• June 1st 2006 – April 21st 2006
• April 20th 2006 – March 7th 2006
• March 6th 2006 – January 31st 2006
• January 31st 2006 – December 21st 2005
• December 19th 2005 – November 11th 2005

Iran: news

Key pair barred from Iran election

Tuesday, May 21st 2013, 18:21

Two prominent figures in Iran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, are barred from standing in next month's presidential election.
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Saudi Arabia arrests 10 spy suspects

Tuesday, May 21st 2013, 14:54
related countries: Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 more suspects in what it says is a spy ring linked to Iran, state media report.
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VIDEO: Will Israel bomb Iran?

Monday, May 20th 2013, 23:28

Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen explores what might happen if Iran continues with its nuclear programme.
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Iran executes two men for spying

Sunday, May 19th 2013, 10:06
related countries: Israel, United States

Iranian officials say two men have been executed after they were convicted of spying for Israel and the US.
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VIDEO: Need to Know: Iran's leadership

Saturday, May 18th 2013, 0:28

BBC Persian's Rana Rahimpour explains how Iran's leadership structure works and what could happen in the upcoming presidential elections.
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Iran women barred from presidency

Thursday, May 16th 2013, 21:23

A constitutional body in Iran rules that women cannot run in presidential polls scheduled for 14 June, despite 30 women registering as candidates.
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VIDEO: US and Iranian wrestlers rumble in NYC

Wednesday, May 15th 2013, 10:13
related countries: Russia, United States
related places: New York

The United Nations have played host to a different group of power players when champion wrestlers from the US, Russian and Iran visited its headquarters in New York.
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Iran elections: Candidates and rivalries in the frame

Tuesday, May 14th 2013, 11:41
related places: Key

Key players enter the race to become Iran's next president
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Pledge to bolster Syrian opposition

Monday, May 13th 2013, 18:41
related countries: Syria, United Kingdom
related places: Washington

The US and the UK say they will work to strengthen Syria's moderate opposition and create a transitional body to replace President Bashar al-Assad.
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Iranian convicted over Nigeria arms

Monday, May 13th 2013, 15:38
related countries: Nigeria
related places: Lagos

An Iranian man and his Nigerian accomplice are found guilty of smuggling weapons into Lagos and sentenced to five years in prison by a Nigerian court.
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Afghan protest at Iran 'shooting'

Sunday, May 12th 2013, 18:13
related countries: Afghanistan

Afghanistan summons the Iranian ambassador in protest at an alleged fatal shooting of illegal migrants by Iranian border guards.
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VIDEO: Rafsanjani to stand in Iran election

Sunday, May 12th 2013, 10:23

Iranian ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has registered for June's presidential election, a few minutes before an official deadline.
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Rafsanjani to stand in Iran election

Saturday, May 11th 2013, 15:10

Iran ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani registers for the June elections, in what could be a challenge to the country's conservative leadership.
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Iran candidates start registering

Tuesday, May 7th 2013, 10:46

Iran begins registering candidates to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in its forthcoming presidential election.
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Iranians guilty of Kenya terror plot

Thursday, May 2nd 2013, 15:54
related countries: Kenya

A Kenyan court finds two Iranian nationals guilty of obtaining explosives with the aim to attack Western targets in the East African nation.
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Canada train plot: Iran's al-Qaeda problem

Tuesday, April 23rd 2013, 19:10
related places: Tehran

Osama Bin Laden legacy a liability for Tehran
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Iran denies Canada terror plot link

Tuesday, April 23rd 2013, 11:14
related countries: Canada
related places: Tehran

Tehran denies any links to al-Qaeda after Canada arrests two men it says were planning to derail a train with support from militant elements in Iran.
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VIDEO: 'Quake completely destroyed our home'

Thursday, April 18th 2013, 20:54
related countries: Pakistan

Many families are homeless in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit neighbouring Iran.
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Pakistan troops help quake rescue

Wednesday, April 17th 2013, 12:27
related countries: Pakistan

Pakistan sends troops to help its citizens affected by a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck just over the border in Iran.
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Iran struck by major earthquake

Wednesday, April 17th 2013, 3:08
related countries: United States

Iran is hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, the most powerful for more than 50 years, with tremors felt across Pakistan, India and the Middle East.
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Iran rocked by quake aftershocks

Wednesday, April 10th 2013, 6:59

More than 80 aftershocks hit south-west Iran following Tuesday's earthquake, which killed at least 37 people and injured 850.
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Deadly quake hits south-west Iran

Wednesday, April 10th 2013, 6:09
related countries: United States
related places: Bushehr

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits Iran's Bushehr province, killing at least 37 people but leaving a nearby nuclear power plant unaffected, officials say.
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Iran unveils new uranium activities

Tuesday, April 9th 2013, 10:47

Iran says it has begun operations at two uranium mines and a uranium ore processing plant, furthering its capacity to produce nuclear material.
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Iran travel ban on Saudi diplomat

Monday, April 8th 2013, 16:27
related countries: Saudi Arabia

A Saudi diplomat allegedly involved in a deadly drink-driving car accident is banned from leaving Iran, says a senior Iranian MP.
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The clock is ticking on Iran

Sunday, April 7th 2013, 16:41

Lyse Doucet on how the clock is ticking on Iran negotiations
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No agreement at Iran nuclear talks

Saturday, April 6th 2013, 20:59

Talks between world powers and Iran on its nuclear programme end without agreement, with the EU saying their positions "remain far apart".
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'Deadlock' at Iran nuclear talks

Friday, April 5th 2013, 16:30
related countries: Kazakhstan

Iran has failed to give "a concrete response" to proposals aimed at ending deadlock over its nuclear programme, a Western diplomat at talks in Almaty says.
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UK must keep Trident - Cameron

Thursday, April 4th 2013, 16:06
related countries: North Korea, United Kingdom

David Cameron says the UK would be "foolish" to abandon Trident in the face of the potential threat of nuclear attack from North Korea and Iran.
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Treaty on global arms trade blocked

Friday, March 29th 2013, 1:38
related countries: Syria

Iran, North Korea and Syria block what would have been the first treaty to regulate the $70bn (£46bn) global trade in conventional arms.
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Obama: US proud to be Israel ally

Wednesday, March 20th 2013, 17:04
related countries: Israel, Syria

Barack Obama says Israel has "no greater friend" than the US, as he makes his first visit to the country as president.
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Iran crisis: Would Israel launch an attack?

Wednesday, March 20th 2013, 1:16

Would Israel launch an attack on Iran's nuclear sites?
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Saudi Arabia arrests 18 for spying

Tuesday, March 19th 2013, 20:03
related countries: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia arrests an Iranian, a Lebanese and 16 Saudis accused of being part of a "spying cell for a state", officials say.
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Obama: Iran must 'reduce tensions'

Monday, March 18th 2013, 21:17

President Obama offers Iran a "practical solution" if it seeks peaceful nuclear capabilities rather than weapons, in a video marking Persian new year.
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VIDEO: Iran TV shows home-made destroyer

Sunday, March 17th 2013, 17:12

Iran has launched a domestically built destroyer in the Caspian Sea, according to state TV.
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VIDEO: Iran planning to sue over Argo

Friday, March 15th 2013, 15:20

Best Picture winner Argo has been criticised by the Iranian authorities over its portrayal of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
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Iran nuclear weapon 'over year away'

Thursday, March 14th 2013, 19:41
related countries: Israel, United States

US President Barack Obama tells an Israeli TV channel that it would take Iran "over a year or so" to develop a nuclear weapon.
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Pakistan-Iran gas link defies US

Monday, March 11th 2013, 17:19
related countries: Pakistan

The presidents of Pakistan and Iran are inaugurating the Pakistani phase of a gas pipeline linking the neighbours, despite US warnings of sanctions.
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VIDEO: Iran and Pakistan inaugurate pipeline

Monday, March 11th 2013, 16:34
related countries: Pakistan

President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have inaugurated a controversial gas pipeline linking the two neighbours.
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Ahmadinejad under fire for consoling Chavez's mother

Monday, March 11th 2013, 11:17
related countries: Venezuela
related places: Chavez

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is mired in a fresh controversy over both real and fake photos showing him consoling relations of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
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Bank sees profits rise despite fine

Tuesday, March 5th 2013, 8:57
related countries: United States

Standard Chartered bank increases profits despite being hit by a $667m (£440m) fine in the US for breaking sanctions on Iran.
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Nuclear watchdog demands Iran access

Monday, March 4th 2013, 11:32
related places: Parchin

The chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog calls for access to Iran's Parchin military site "without further delay".
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Pakistan-Iran pipeline 'to start'

Friday, March 1st 2013, 15:01
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Work on a gas pipeline between Iran and Pakistan is to begin on 11 March, Pakistani officials say, despite US warnings of possible sanctions.
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Argentina passes Iran Amia deal

Thursday, February 28th 2013, 10:18
related countries: Argentina
related places: Buenos Aires

Argentine legislators approve an agreement with Iran to set up an international truth commission into the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires.
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'Murder charge' for Iran ex-official

Wednesday, February 27th 2013, 12:17

Iranian prosecutors accuse an ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of being an accessory to the murder of anti-government protesters, a lawyer in the case says.
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Iran: Nuclear talks 'positive step'

Wednesday, February 27th 2013, 11:26

Iran says talks with world powers in Kazakhstan to try to resolve its nuclear crisis were a "positive step".
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Iran in 'useful' nuclear meeting

Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 16:23

World powers and Iran hold what a Western official describes as "useful" talks in the Kazakh city of Almaty over Tehran's nuclear programme.
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VIDEO: Iran nuclear talks 'long and difficult'

Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 10:09
related countries: Kazakhstan

A fresh round of talks about Iran's nuclear ambitions have started in Kazakhstan where Iranian officials have said they have a right to enrich uranium.
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Iran announces nuclear expansion

Saturday, February 23rd 2013, 15:47

Iran has found new uranium deposits and is planning more nuclear power plants, it says, just days before more talks on its nuclear programme.
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Iran 'installs advanced centrifuges'

Thursday, February 21st 2013, 19:40

The UN's nuclear watchdog says Iran has begun installing advanced centrifuges at one of its nuclear plants, drawing an angry US reaction.
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VIDEO: Cartoons on frontline of human rights

Thursday, February 21st 2013, 0:59

Iranian political cartoons talk about abuses
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Funeral for Iran Revolutionary Guard

Thursday, February 14th 2013, 22:53
related countries: Lebanon, Syria
related places: Tehran

A funeral is held in Tehran for Gen Hassan Shateri, a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard recently killed while travelling from Syria to Lebanon.
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