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.

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Iran: news

Afghan gunmen 'kidnap Iranians'

Monday, April 18th 2011, 14:30
related countries: Afghanistan

At least nine Iranian engineers have been kidnapped in a remote area of western Afghanistan, officials say.
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Iraq exile camp raid 'killed 34'

Thursday, April 14th 2011, 18:22
related countries: Iraq

The United Nations says 34 people were killed during a raid last Friday by Iraqi forces on an Iranian exile group at Camp Ashraf.
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Iranian exiles 'must leave Iraq'

Tuesday, April 12th 2011, 0:17
related countries: Iraq

Iraq's government says members of an Iranian exile group must leave the country by the end of the year, after deadly clashes with security forces.
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Information as weapon

Sunday, April 10th 2011, 0:33

Journalist Maziar Bahari on why Iran's rulers fear the internet and a free press
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Iraq forces attack Iranian exiles

Friday, April 8th 2011, 13:32
related countries: Iraq
related places: Baghdad

Iraqi forces attack a camp housing an Iranian exile group north of Baghdad, officials said, amid reports of fatalities.
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Iranian asylum man burns to death

Thursday, April 7th 2011, 13:43

An Iranian asylum seeker dies after setting himself alight in a central Amsterdam square, police say.
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Dutch marines kill Somali pirates

Monday, April 4th 2011, 16:23
related countries: Netherlands, Somalia

Dutch marines kill two suspected Somali pirates and captured 16 others during an operation to free a hijacked Iranian fishing boat, officials say.
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Israel fury over Argentina report

Monday, March 28th 2011, 0:01
related countries: Argentina, Israel

Israel demands an explanation from Argentina over reports it proposed to Iran that it would stop investigating two 1990s bombings of Jewish targets in exchange for improved trade ties.
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Foreign plot foiled, says Bahrain

Monday, March 21st 2011, 10:12
related countries: Bahrain

Bahrain's King Hamad says a foreign-backed plot against his country has been foiled following a month of anti-government protests, in what correspondents say is a swipe at Iran.
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Bahrain and Iran expel diplomats

Monday, March 21st 2011, 0:09
related countries: Bahrain

Iran expels a Bahraini diplomat in a retaliatory move, amid an ongoing dispute linked to anti-government protests in Bahrain.
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Turks order Iranian plane to land

Wednesday, March 16th 2011, 15:13
related countries: Syria, Turkey

An Iranian cargo plane flying to Syria was ordered to land in Turkey but allowed to leave after a lengthy search.
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Iran 'to compete at London 2012' despite logo anger

Saturday, March 12th 2011, 22:23
related countries: United Kingdom

An Iranian official indicates the country will put aside a complaint about the London 2012 Olympics logo and attend the games.
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UK anger as 'Iranian arms' seized

Wednesday, March 9th 2011, 19:56
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Tehran

The foreign secretary condemns Tehran's actions after British Special Forces seize a suspected shipment of Iranian arms intended for the Taliban.
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VIDEO: Key Iranian official steps down

Tuesday, March 8th 2011, 23:15

Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani loses his position as the head of one of the country's most influential bodies.
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Rafsanjani leaves key Iran post

Tuesday, March 8th 2011, 13:38

Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has lost his position as head of a powerful clerical body, reports say.
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Holocaust film to be seen in Iran

Monday, March 7th 2011, 16:14

A landmark film about the Holocaust, Shoah, is to be shown for the first time on a satellite TV channel which broadcasts into Iran.
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US and Israel blamed for Stuxnet

Friday, March 4th 2011, 16:55
related countries: Israel, United States

Israel and the US created the Stuxnet worm to sabotage Iran's nuclear programme, a leading security expert has claimed.
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Missing ex-FBI agent 'is alive'

Thursday, March 3rd 2011, 23:48
related countries: United States

Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in Iran four years ago, is alive, according to the US state department.
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Iran: 200 protesters 'arrested'

Wednesday, March 2nd 2011, 18:09
related places: Tehran

Iranian opposition groups say more than 200 people were arrested on Tuesday while trying to protest in Tehran over the reported imprisonment of two opposition leaders.
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IOC dismisses 'racist' logo claim

Tuesday, March 1st 2011, 19:08
related countries: United Kingdom

IOC president Jacques Rogge dismisses Iran's suggestion that the London 2012 logo is 'racist'.
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Tehran police break up protests

Tuesday, March 1st 2011, 16:58
related places: Tehran

Iran security forces fire tear gas to break up demonstrations by opposition supporters in the capital Tehran.
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Iran 'arrests opposition leaders'

Monday, February 28th 2011, 21:43

Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are removed from their houses and taken to an undisclosed location, reports say.
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Iran opposes 'racist' 2012 logo

Monday, February 28th 2011, 18:46
related countries: United Kingdom

Iran could boycott the London Olympics after claiming the Games' 2012 logo is racist because it resembles the word "Zion" - a biblical term for the city of Jerusalem.
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Iran unloads Bushehr nuclear fuel

Saturday, February 26th 2011, 17:50
related places: Bushehr

Iran confirms it is having to remove nuclear fuel from the Bushehr reactor, in what is seen as a setback for its nuclear ambitions.
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'New data' on Iran's nuclear plan

Friday, February 25th 2011, 18:35

The UN's nuclear watchdog says it has new information on "possible military dimensions" to Iran's nuclear development programme.
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Iran's warships sail through Suez

Tuesday, February 22nd 2011, 18:55

Two Iranian warships have sailed through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea, triggering angry Israeli reaction.
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Rafsanjani daughter held in Iran

Sunday, February 20th 2011, 16:53

The daughter of Iran's former reformist President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is arrested for taking part in a banned protest, official media reports say.
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Iranian drama scoops Golden Bear

Sunday, February 20th 2011, 14:40
related countries: Germany
related places: Simin

The Iranian drama Nader and Simin: A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi, wins the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Germans freed by Iran arrive home

Sunday, February 20th 2011, 14:27
related countries: Germany

Two German reporters who were jailed in Iran after interviewing the son of a woman sentenced to death by stoning arrive home after being freed.
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VIDEO: Iran 'frees German reporters'

Sunday, February 20th 2011, 1:41
related countries: Germany

Iran frees two German reporters held after meeting the son of a woman condemned to death by stoning.
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Iran warships 'to use Suez Canal'

Friday, February 18th 2011, 17:52
related countries: Egypt, Israel
related places: Suez

The Egyptian authorities have agreed to allow two Iranian warships to transit through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea, state media report.
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Israel anger at Iran warship move

Wednesday, February 16th 2011, 18:58
related countries: Israel

Israel condemns a move by Iran's navy to sail two of its ships through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Clashes at Iran protester funeral

Wednesday, February 16th 2011, 13:35
related places: Tehran

Fresh clashes erupt in Tehran during the funeral of a student killed in anti-government protests on Monday, Iranian state television says.
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Iran president dismisses protests

Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 22:54

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says recent opposition protests in Iranian cities are "going nowhere" and vows to punish their organisers.
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Iran MPs outraged by protests

Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 20:30

Iranian MPs call for opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi to be executed after deadly anti-government protests on Monday.
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VIDEO: Iran's parliament condemns protests

Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 16:45

More than 200 members of Iran's parliament have issued a statement condemning the anti-government demonstrations held on Monday by supporters of the opposition Green Movement.
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'Nuclear virus' targets uncovered

Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 13:51

A powerful internet worm repeatedly targeted five industrial facilities in Iran, analysis by security researchers shows.
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VIDEO: Thousands make voices heard in Iran

Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 9:03
related countries: Egypt, Tunisia

Thousands of demonstrators in Iran are making their voices heard inspired by the recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
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Clinton praises Iran protesters

Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 7:59
related countries: United States
related places: Tehran, Monday

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expresses her firm support for Iranian opposition supporters who protested in Tehran on Monday.
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Protesters in Tehran tear-gassed

Monday, February 14th 2011, 20:52

Iranian police fire tear gas at thousands of opposition protesters attending a banned rally in central Tehran, and detain dozens.
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VIDEO: Egypt jubilation felt in Iran and Iraq

Saturday, February 12th 2011, 15:26
related countries: Iraq

People across the Middle East have been reacting to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak
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Iran 'holds opposition activists'

Friday, February 11th 2011, 15:47

Reports from Iran say several opposition activists have been arrested and international news channels are being jammed.
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Iran 'house arrest' for Karroubi

Thursday, February 10th 2011, 14:08
related countries: Egypt, Tunisia

Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has been put under house arrest, his website says, after he called for a rally in support of Egypt and Tunisia's popular uprisings.
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Dutch recall envoy in Iranian row

Monday, February 7th 2011, 13:11
related countries: Netherlands
related places: Tehran

The Netherlands recalls its Tehran ambassador and formally protests over the "sudden burial" of executed Dutch-Iranian Sahra Bahrami.
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US hiker called to Iran spy trial

Monday, January 31st 2011, 16:51
related countries: United States
related places: Tehran

An American woman who spent 14 months in an Iranian jail has been summoned to Tehran to stand trial for spying, an Iranian government official says.
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Dutch cut Iran links over hanging

Saturday, January 29th 2011, 21:44
related countries: Netherlands

The Dutch government freezes all contacts with Iran in protest over the hanging of a Dutch-Iranian woman for drug smuggling.
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Iran executes Iranian-Dutch woman

Saturday, January 29th 2011, 10:11
related countries: Netherlands

A Dutch-Iranian woman, arrested after taking part in anti-government protests in Iran in 2009, has been hanged for drug smuggling, Iranian officials have said.
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Iran's press retouch Ashton photo

Wednesday, January 26th 2011, 14:18

Iranian newspapers retouch a photograph of EU foreign policy chief Baroness Ashton to make her outfit less revealing.
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Iran opposition activists hanged

Monday, January 24th 2011, 20:21

Iranian authorities hang two opposition activists convicted of taking part in anti-government protests which followed the disputed presidential election in 2009.
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Sign language

Sunday, January 23rd 2011, 7:36

The unspoken messages behind Iran nuclear talks impasse
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Iraqi cleric Sadr 'back in Iran'

Saturday, January 22nd 2011, 21:22
related countries: Iraq
related places: Sadr

The radical Iraqi Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, has left the country for Iran, an aide tells the BBC.
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'Disappointment' over Iran talks

Saturday, January 22nd 2011, 14:32

Foreign powers negotiating with Tehran on its nuclear programme say they are "disappointed" after talks end without progress, and no further dates arranged.
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Iran nuclear talks 'are positive'

Friday, January 21st 2011, 14:59
related countries: Turkey
related places: Tehran

Fresh talks on Tehran's nuclear programme begin in a "positive atmosphere", Iran says, as Western diplomats hope to revive a fuel-swap plan.
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Iran's nuclear plan under scrutiny

Friday, January 21st 2011, 7:23

Round table talks over Iran's nuclear programme take place in Istanbul.
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US considers more Iran sanctions

Wednesday, January 19th 2011, 18:32
related countries: United States

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US is considering imposing additional unilateral sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme.
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