We have started to collect the most important news related to Iran in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Australia voices concern over reports that an Iranian actress has been sentenced to jail and 90 lashes for starring in a film critical of Iran.
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Iran was hit by one of the worst heatwaves on record in 2011, causing some of the country's largest rivers to run dry.
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Iranian authorities have arrested six documentary makers whose films had been screened on the BBC's Persian television service.
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The lawyer for an Iranian Christian cleric sentenced to death for apostasy says he is optimistic that his client will be acquitted.
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Ahvaz in south Iran is one of the most polluted cities in the world, according to a World Health Organization air quality survey.
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Al-Qaeda accuses Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of spreading "conspiracy theories" about the 9/11 attacks in his recent speech to the UN.
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Iran's young revellers continue to risk arrest at parties where both men and women attend, despite a woman's recent death while fleeing a police raid.
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Two Americans released after spending more than two years in jail in Iran on spying charges have expressed their anger at the Iranian authorities.
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Two Americans return home after spending more than two years in an Iranian jail on spying charges for allegedly crossing the border from Iraq.
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Should the US lift its ban on Iranian MEK group?
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Iran's president says he does not believe the WTC towers could have been destroyed by aircraft alone, after lambasting Western nations at the UN.
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A pair of Americans convicted as spies and jailed in Iran for two years are released and emotionally reunited with their loved ones.
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Two US men given an eight-year jail term by Iran for spying have been released and emotionally reunited with their loved ones.
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Tehran taxi driver Ghasem Jafari has shot to localised fame as customers post footage online of him singing their favourite songs as he drives.
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Iran arrests film-makers it accuses of working for the BBC Persian service a day after it showed a film about Ayatollah Khamenei, but the BBC denies employing anyone inside Iran.
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Iran's judiciary denies a decision has been made about the release date of two US hikers jailed for spying, according to Press TV.
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Two Americans jailed for spying in Iran will be released in two days, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells US media.
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Two Americans jailed for spying in Iran will be released in two days, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said.
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Ex-PM Tony Blair blames Iran for prolonging conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and urges the international community to put pressure on Syria.
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Fresh evidence has emerged that stolen web security certificates were being used to spy on people in Iran.
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Iranian police arrest about 60 protesters calling for the government to save a shrinking saltwater lake in the north-west of the country.
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Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr has begun supplying energy to the country's national grid, state news reports.
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The UN nuclear watchdog says it is "increasingly concerned" that Iran is working on components for a nuclear weapons programme.
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The UN's nuclear watchdog says it is "increasingly concerned" that Iran is secretly working on components for a nuclear weapons programme.
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An Iranian man is sentenced to death for killing one of the country's nuclear scientists, according to state media.
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An Iranian man goes on trial, charged with killing one of the country's nuclear scientists and having links to Israel's Mossad spy agency.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is "deeply disappointed" by the eight-year sentences given to two US hikers for spying in Iran.
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Iran jails US hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal for eight years for illegally entering the country and spying, state TV reports.
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An Iranian woman left blinded by a man who threw acid at her has forgiven her attacker seven years on.
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Under the skin of Iran's little-understood supreme leader
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Iran's parliament confirms a Revolutionary Guards commander, who is under international sanctions, as the country's new oil minister.
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Iran and India resolve the payment dispute that threatened the Islamic state's crude exports to India.
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The trial has ended in Tehran of two American men accused of spying. It is exactly two years since the men, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, were arrested.
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An Iranian woman blinded and left seriously disfigured after having acid thrown in her face has pardoned the man responsible, state television has reported.
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An Iranian man ordered to be blinded for carrying out an acid attack on a woman is reprieved at the last minute by his victim, state television says.
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An Iranian scientist said to be linked to the country's nuclear programme is shot dead outside his home in Tehran, Iranian media sources say.
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Iran says it is installing new centrifuges aimed at speeding up nuclear enrichment, amid fears that Tehran is moving towards weapons-grade uranium.
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Iranian forces have inflicted a "heavy and historic defeat" on Kurdish rebels in Iraq, army officials say, but rebel leaders dismiss the claims.
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Argentina says Iran's reported offer to help investigations into the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people is "positive".
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Officials in Iran say they will help Argentina investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre, which Argentina has blamed on Iran.
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Spain widens its investigation into alleged attacks carried out by Iraqi forces on Camp Ashraf, housing a group of Iranian exiles, and summons three Iraqi officers.
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Isfahan river has been dry for the past three summers.
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Authorities in Iran have launched a new campaign against satellite dishes.
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Foreign Secretary William Hague says Iran has been testing missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
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An ally of President Ahmadinejad of Iran is reportedly arrested on corruption claims days after he was forced to quit as deputy foreign minister.
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The US imposes economic sanctions on Iran's national airline, saying Iran Air supported the Iranian military and the Revolutionary Guard.
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Two Iranian doctors imprisoned for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government win a global health prize for their role in treating and preventing HIV.
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Fear and fury in Iran over violent sex crimes
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Iranian dissident journalist and political activist Hoda Saber, imprisoned last year, dies of a heart attack while on hunger strike.
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American Sarah Shourd, who was released by Iran after being detained with two fellow US hikers in Tehran's Evin prison, talks to Sarah Montague about her ordeal.
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As Iran announces it is tripling its uranium research, President Ahmadinejad says the country will not stop.
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A new danger for foreign troops in Afghanistan - thanks to Iran
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Sami Ofer, a billionaire Israeli businessman at the centre of a scandal over business contacts with Iran, dies aged 89.
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Iranian opposition activist Haleh Sahabi dies after scuffles with security forces at her father Ezatollah's funeral.
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Bolivia apologises to Argentina after a visit by Iran's Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi who is wanted by Buenos Aires over a 1994 bombing.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's flight to India is delayed after Iran's government refuses it permission to fly over the country.
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Egypt deports Iranian diplomat, Qassem Hosseini, who was arrested on suspicion of spying, state news agency Mena says.
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Spanish police say they have prevented the illegal sale of military transport helicopters to Iran and have detained eight people, including three Iranians.
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The Venezuelan government says US sanctions on its state oil firm PDVSA for doing business with Iran are "imperialist aggression".
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The US imposes sanctions against seven foreign firms which trade with Iran, including companies based in Venezuela, Israel, Monaco and Jersey.
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At least one person is killed and 20 hurt in an explosion at an Iranian oil refinery coinciding with a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reports say.
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Iran's intelligence ministry announces the arrest of 30 people after breaking up what it says was a CIA-run espionage operation.
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China blocks the release of a UN report accusing North Korea of sharing ballistic missile technology with Iran in violation of sanctions.
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Iran's foreign ministry says detained al-Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvaz entered Syria 'on an expired passport'.
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