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We have started to collect the most important news related to Iran in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
An Iranian state television documentary about the country's elite forces - tasked with safeguarding the regime - sparks online debate.
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United StatesPresident Barack Obama says the US has requested that Tehran return the surveillance drone captured by Iran's military earlier this month.
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An explosion at a steel factory in Iran has killed seven people including foreign nationals, Iranian state media say.
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The family of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iran in 2007, releases a proof-of-life video that shows him pleading for help.
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United StatesIranian TV has shown the video footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that Tehran says it downed late last week.
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Afghanistan, United StatesIranian TV shows the first video footage of an advanced unmanned US drone aircraft that Tehran says it downed near the Afghan border.
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United StatesThe US state department opens a "virtual embassy" for Iran, in a bid to reach out to Iranians interested in visas and other information.
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United StatesThe US says it is concerned at the the loss of a Sentinel unmanned drone near the border with Iran, which Tehran says it shot down.
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Improvements in the global economy and tensions in Iran, the world's fourth-largest oil producer, push up the price of oil.
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United StatesIran's military claims to have shot down a US drone, as Nato-led forces say it may be a craft that was lost over western Afghanistan last week.
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United KingdomFrance brings a number of diplomats and their families home from Iran, following Tuesday's attack on the British embassy in Tehran.
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United KingdomA group of Iranian diplomats who were expelled from Britain after the UK's Tehran embassy was ransacked, have arrived home, Iranian media say.
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United KingdomThe Iranian diplomats who were expelled from Britain earlier this week have arrived back in Iran
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United KingdomTuesday's attack on Britain's embassy in Tehran had the "acquiescence and the support of the state", says the UK's former ambassador to Iran.
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United KingdomDiplomats at the Iranian embassy in London must leave by Friday afternoon, after being expelled following an attack on the British embassy in Tehran.
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United StatesThe US Senate unanimously approves tougher economic sanctions targeting Iran's central bank, but some fear the measures could backfire.
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The EU agrees new sanctions on Iranian officials and businesses over Tehran's nuclear programme and says future measures may target oil exports.
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United KingdomDiscussion of new moves against Iran is expected to dominate a meeting of EU foreign ministers, in the wake of the UK's expulsion of Iranian diplomats.
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Belgium, United KingdomEU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels in the shadow of the crisis between Britain and Iran that has put further strain on relations with the Islamic state.
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United KingdomThe UK is to expel all Iranian diplomats following the storming of its embassy in Tehran by protesters, Foreign Secretary William Hague announces.
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United KingdomUK is to expel all Iranian diplomats following the storming of its embassy in Tehran by protesters, Foreign Secretary William Hague announces.
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A satellite image captures apparently extensive damage from an explosion at a military base near Tehran earlier this month.
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United KingdomBritain withdraws some diplomatic staff from Iran after protesters ransack its embassy, amid worsening relations over Iran's nuclear programme.
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United KingdomBritons staying in Iran are being warned to stay indoors and to keep a low profile after hundreds of protesters stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran.
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United KingdomUK Prime Minister David Cameron warns Iran of "serious consequences" after protesters stormed the British embassy and a UK compound in Tehran.
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United KingdomIran expresses "regret" after protesters force their way into the UK embassy compound in Tehran, smashing windows and burning the British flag.
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United KingdomProtesters in the Iranian capital have broken into the British embassy compound during a demonstration against sanctions imposed by the UK.
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United KingdomIran's parliament votes to downgrade diplomatic relations with Britain after the UK imposed fresh sanctions over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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United StatesIran says it has arrested 12 agents of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who were targeting its military and nuclear programme.
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Iran dismisses new Western sanctions imposed against it because of growing concerns about its nuclear programme, saying they are "in vain".
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United Kingdom, United StatesThe US, Canada and UK announce fresh sanctions against Iran amid growing concern over Tehran's nuclear programme.
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United KingdomThe UK imposes new financial sanctions against Iran which it says are needed because Iranian banks may be linked to the country's alleged nuclear weapons programme.
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Iranian gamers sign a petition against a new video game, Battlefield 3, which includes a search for nuclear bombs in a future Iran.
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The UN's nuclear watchdog has passed a resolution expressing its "deep and increasing concern" over Iran's nuclear programme.
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The UN's nuclear watchdog expresses "deep and increasing concern" over Iran's nuclear plans, but stops short of referring Tehran to the Security Council.
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A movie about the break up of an Iranian married couple is named the winner of this year's BBC Four World Cinema Awards.
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GermanyThe five permanent members of the UN Security Council, and Germany, have expressed their "increasing concern" over Iran's nuclear programme.
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World powers agree a draft resolution expressing their "increasing concern" that Iran may be seeking to build nuclear weapons.
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Iraq, United StatesIran influenced Baghdad's decision to refuse to allow the US to keep troops in Iraq beyond the end of this year, a senior adviser to Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki tells the BBC.
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Iran says it is using software to control trojan attacks as researchers elsewhere find a TV show reference in the malware's code.
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United StatesUS Republican presidential hopefuls debate foreign policy, agreeing on blocking Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions, but differing on methods.
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Seventeen soldiers are killed in a huge explosion at a Revolutionary Guards military base near Iran's capital Tehran, officials say.
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United StatesEver since the recent economic sanctions imposed by the US on Iran, travelling to foreign destinations on Iranian carriers has become a daring adventure.
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IraqEvery day, hundreds of young Kurds living in northern Iraq cross the border into Iran.
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United StatesUS Defence Secretary Leon Panetta seeks to quash speculation of a military strike against Iran, saying it could have "unintended consequences".
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RussiaRussia rules out supporting fresh sanctions against Iran, despite a UN report that says Tehran may be trying to develop nuclear weapons.
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RussiaRussia says it would not support new sanctions against Iran, even after a report from the UN's atomic energy agency accused Tehran of trying to build a nuclear weapon.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran "will not budge" from its nuclear programme, despite a new UN report suggesting it may have a military aim.
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In its toughest report yet on Iran, the UN's nuclear watchdog says Tehran is conducting research that can only be aimed at developing nuclear arms.
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UN report on Iran 'to detail secret atomic programme'
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Iran's president says his country "does not need atomic bombs", amid continuing controversy over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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