We have started to collect the most important news related to Iran in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
A young woman whose execution was delayed while she was pregnant may be hanged in Iran within days, after she gave birth to a stillborn baby.
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A writer and human rights activist faces six years' imprisonment in Iran for penning an unpublished story about stoning.
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There is widespread controversy over a requirement for participants in next year's Women's World Chess Championship in Iran to wear a headscarf.
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Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post's former bureau chief in Tehran, sues Iran's government for "irreparable harm" during his 18-month imprisonment.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei advises former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to run for re-election next year, state media has reported.
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Retired Canadian-Iranian lecturer Homa Hoodfar has been released from prison on "humanitarian grounds", Iranian state media report.
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How Iranian women are defying a fatwa by cycling in public
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The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games are brought to a close inside a packed Maracana Stadium, with the IPC leading a tribute to Bahman Golbarnezhad.
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Iranian Para-cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad dies following a crash during the men's C4-5 road race at the Rio Paralympics.
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Iran's supreme leader accuses Saudi Arabia of "murdering" pilgrims caught up in a stampede at last year's Hajj and urges Muslims to "reconsider" Riyadh's custodianship of Islam's holiest sites.
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British Airways will resume direct flights to Tehran later - the first UK carrier to fly to Iran for four years.
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Iran says it has launched the first phase of "national internet" designed to replace the current system.
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The Iraqi government asks for the Saudi ambassador to Baghdad to be replaced over comments he made about Iran's involvement in Iraq.
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Iranian authorities say they arrested a man on suspicion of spying during the landmark nuclear deal negotiations with the West.
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The Pentagon says a US Navy vessel fired three warning shots when an Iranian military boat approached it head-on in the Gulf.
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A slick music video in which a US invasion force is destroyed by a patriotic tsunami has upset Iranian conservatives.
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Iran accuses Russia of "showing-off" over its use of an Iranian airbase to bomb Syria as both sides confirm raids from there have stopped for now.
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The State Department says a $400m cash payment to Iran was used as "leverage" in the release of five US prisoners.
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Security forces are called to the weightlifting arena as coaches react furiously after an invalid lift by Iran's Behdad Salimikordasiabi.
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Russia says it has used a base in Iran to carry out air strikes in Syria, the first time it has deployed bombers to a third country.
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An Iranian dual national has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the British intelligence services, Iran's state news agency reports.
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The husband of a British-Iranian woman facing trial in Iran has told the BBC that she is being used as a political pawn.
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A female Iranian activist who held a protest banner during a volleyball match at the Rio Olympics is asked to take it down by security and leave.
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Iran's government confirms it has executed nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, saying he leaked "vital information to the enemy".
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The BBC has learnt that an Iranian nuclear scientist accused of working with Western intelligence agencies has been executed.
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US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump backtracks on a claim that he saw video footage of a US cash payment to Iran.
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Authorities in Iran ban the Pokemon Go app because of unspecified "security concerns", joining other countries to have worries over the hit game.
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The BBC's James Cook analyses Donald Trump's claim that Iran's military filmed $400m in cash being taken by plane to Tehran by the US authorities.
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Iran hangs up to 20 Sunni Muslim prisoners it says were involved in armed attacks, but there are claims the men were subject to unfair trials.
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The White House dismisses claims that the US paid a ransom to Iran in exchange for the release of five American prisoners.
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Iranians are struggling to understand how a well-known British porn star was allowed into their country for cosmetic surgery.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani postpones the annual civil service entry exam because of concerns it discriminates against women.
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Iran has redesigned its much-derided uniform only to incur more ridicule online.
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Iran's so-called payslip-gate scandal has been a blow to President Hassan Rouhani's reputation, and could still be a problem come next year's elections, says the BBC's Amir Azimi.
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Iran and six world powers reached a landmark nuclear agreement one year ago today, and as a result the country has witnessed far-reaching changes.
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One year since the historic signing of the Iranian nuclear deal, key negotiators tell BBC Persian about what went on behind the scenes.
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Award-winning Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, a much-feted figure in world cinema, dies in Paris aged 76.
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A gigantic Iranian social media star has volunteered to join his countrymen fighting alongside the Assad regime in Syria.
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Weak leadership, poor judgment and a lack of "warfighting toughness" led to the capture of 10 US sailors by Iran in the Gulf in January, the US Navy says.
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The chief executives of four public banks in Iran have been sacked amid widespread criticism of their salaries, the state-run Irna news agency reports.
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US aircraft maker Boeing announces that it has reached a deal with Iran Air that could be worth up to $25bn (£17bn).
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A top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander warns of armed resistance in Bahrain after the kingdom strips a prominent Shia cleric of his citizenship.
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The authorities in Iran thwart a plot by Sunni militants to bomb targets in the capital. Tehran, the intelligence ministry says.
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A gas explosion in an underground construction site in Tehran has killed two workers.
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Taha is a gay mullah who fled Iran after being threatened for performing secret same-sex weddings.
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A BBC report revealing secret contact between the late founder of Iran's Islamic Republic and US presidents is "fake", Iran's Supreme Leader says.
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How Saudi and Iranian hackers are waging a virtual war.
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Iran and Saudi Arabia fail to solve a row over the Hajj pilgrimage and Iranian citizens will not travel to Mecca this year, Tehran says
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Iranian woman dons male disguise to watch the footie
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Hardline conservative Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati is elected chairman of the Assembly of Experts, which selects Iran's supreme leader.
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Another side to Indian-Iranian relations
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Eight people are arrested in Iran for working for online modelling agencies deemed to be "un-Islamic", the prosecutor of a cybercrimes court says.
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The US Navy demotes the commander of the 10 US sailors who in January entered Iranian territorial waters and were briefly detained.
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A British man has described the imprisonment of his wife by Iran's Revolutionary Guard as "outrageous and arbitrary".
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The president of Iran congratulates voters on electing a record number of women to parliament since before the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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Run-off elections give moderates and reformists a working majority in the Iranian parliament for the first time in more than a decade.
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A 23-year-old Iranian asylum seeker who set himself on fire at Australia's detention centre on the island of Nauru has died.
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A media advocacy group condemns the sentencing by a court in Iran of four reformist journalists to between five and 10 years in prison.
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The US is buying 32 tonnes of heavy water, which is used in some nuclear reactors, from Iran.
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Iran seeks to boost production while cutting greenhouse gases
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The US Supreme Court permits the families of victims of a 1983 bombing in Beirut and other terror attacks to collect nearly $2bn (£1.4bn) in frozen Iranian assets.
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Iran uses its Army Day to display parts of a long-awaited S-300 air defence system ordered from Russia after sanctions were lifted last year.
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Iran has held it's highest level talks with Europe for more than a decade, as the EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, spent the day in Tehran.
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EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says they have "turned a new page" with Iran, as she visits Tehran for highest-level talks in more than a decade.
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