In his first public address since being elected president of Iran on Friday, Hassan Rowhani says he wants his country to be friends with the U.S. again, but not if that means giving in to what the U.S. actually wants from them.
Saturday marks the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and with a new wave of anti-government protests expected to mark the occasion, the government there has reportedly gotten nervous enough to turn off the Internet, or at least restrict it considerably.
U.S. officials are confirming what Iran (and lots of other observers) had always suspected: Israel is supporting those terrorists who have been taking out nuclear scientists in Iran.
The latest in posturing from Iran involves reminding the world (and the U.S. in particular) that it has long-range missile that could hit the U.S. anywhere -- which is hardly surprising, since Israel was making that claim last week.
Reuters is out with a report that China is buying up oil from Saudi Arabia and other sources to reduce the amount it depends on Iran as it negotiates prices with Tehran
The Simpsons have now joined Barbie as targets of an Iranian crackdown, putting one of the iconic blonde doll's biggest critics on the same blacklist as her.
A new executive order the president just signed puts a hold on all Iranian assets in the United States, including those of the country's central bank, that blocks them from export, transfer, or anything else, as part of a new round of sanctions by the government.
Today, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged to support any group that confronts the "cancer" Israel, in an address broadcast on state TV.
In some of the more disturbing news you'll hear about the Middle East, U.S.Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is predicting an Israeli attack on Iran could come as soon as April and right now top Israeli security officials aren't doing much to convince us otherwise.
If what an Israeli minister said Thursday is true, Iran came close to developing a missile that could hit the United States before the facility developing it got destroyed in an explosion last November.
Iran's president said Thursday that his country is ready to talk nukes (er, we mean "nuclear power") with the West, but not without a fair share of postering to start.
If you had any doubts that Iran's nuclear program was of the peaceful variety, the European Union's immediate oil embargo on Iran shows that you're not the only one who needs convincing.
Amid its saber rattling over the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has opened a new front in its confrontation with the West: A renewed crackdown on Barbie dolls and the stores that sell them.
An Army officer speaking on behalf of special forces confirmed on Thursday that a team of "highly trained personnel that excel in uncertain environments" are operating near Iran.
Reliable exercise partners rarely postpone. And if they do, it's in poor taste to point fingers behind each other's back. But this week longtime exercise couple Israel and the U.S. are breaking all the rules.
Iranians won't return the advanced RQ-170 Sentinel drone downed in their country late last year but they will give the White House a toy replica.
Iran has apparently made arrests in last week's bomb assassination of a nuclear scientist there, but while it's said Israel was to blame for the attack, it hasn't said whether the people it's now questioning are actually from Israel or connected to it.
News outlets in Israel report that a planned military exercise was called off because U.S. officials didn't want to further antagonize countries in the Middle East, especially Iran.
If Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy has a backup plan to save one-fifth of the world's daily oil trade: send in the dolphins.
The Obama administration has reportedly opened a "secret" line of communication between Washington and Tehran in order to warn leaders there that closing the Strait of Hormuz would provoke an American response.
When 32-year-old Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was assassinated in a car bomb attack Wednesday, Iran immediately accused Israel of carrying out the attack. At this point, it's increasingly difficult to argue to the contrary.
After first saying it wouldn't respond, the United States has now denied it had anything to do with the Wednesday bombing death of an Iranian nuclear scientist.
It's the most dangerous career track you could choose, if you believe Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency.
An Iranian scientist was killed in a bomb blast on Wednesday, suggesting that Western forces may be dismantling the country's nuclear program from within.
Earlier on Tuesday the the U.S. Coast Guard cuttter Monomoy saved the crew of another Iranian vessel, this time in the northern Persian Gulf, who maydayed for help after it started flooding.
The U.S. State Department has labeled Venezuela's consul general in Miami persona non grata and ordered her out of the country by Tuesday after some Mexican students said she'd expressed interest in their offer to hack U.S. government websites and nuclear plants.
Amir Hekmati, an American citizen who was accused by Iran of being a spy for the CIA, has been sentenced to death by that country's Revolutionary Court.
A news agency within the country says it has a new, bomb-proof location from which to improve nuclear fuel.
An American Navy destroyed helped rescue Iranian fishermen who had been captured by pirates off Somalia. It was either a humanitarian gesture or a PR stunt, depending which Iranian official was speaking.
Iran's been careful to dangle it's massive oil supply in the West's face as it threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz, but no matter what the country ends up doing, we've got a backup plan.
Bucking the trend of the currently-escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, the American Navy has rescued a 13-member crew of an Iranian fishing boat who had been held hostage by Somalian pirates for 40 days.
Iran promises more military action in the Strait of Hormuz, western nations try turn up the economic and regular Iranians prepare for the real possibility of war.
As Iran makes noise about possibly closing the Hormuz strait, Israel is planning its own missile defense drill with American help, and while the U.S. ally says the drill has nothing to do with Iran's recent muscle-flexing, Iranian press outlet described it as Israel trying to start a war.
Despite growing calls for President Obama to call Iran's bluff in the Strait of Hormuz, the Islamic republic could credibly close off the waterway, according to military experts speaking to Reuters and The New York Times.
Today in books: Independent bookstores are taking a page out of Amazon's and wading into the world of publishing, a look at Iran's literary prizes, and a very thorough guide to the best books coming out over the next year.
Iran's vague threat against a U.S. aircraft carrier seems pretty empty, coming as it does after the ship already left the Persian Gulf, but it's the most aggressive language yet from the increasingly isolated republic.
Forget about peace and tranquility to start the new year: Iran said it successfully-test-fired two long-range missiles over the Strait of Hormuz Monday, one day after it announced the successful testing of its first domestically-produced nuclear fuel rod.
There are three ways to look at the Obama administration's historic arms deal with Saudia Arabia announced earlier today: Through the lens of geopolitics, domestic politics, or both.
The high stakes standoff between Iran and the U.S. over the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-fifth of the world's oil, was inflamed Thursday when Iran's navy claimed to have recorded video of a U.S. aircraft carrier entering the Port of Oman.
Remember that guy who appeared on Iranian television last week and admitted to being a spy? Well, now he's on trial, and the prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
As the U.S. preps further sanctions against the Iran, the rogue nation wants us to know, by the way, that it controls the Strait of Hormuz, through which, just so you know, a huge chuck of the world's oil supply flows.
An Iranian woman sentenced to death for committing adultery will likely have her sentence changed from stoning to hanging, but this is not a gesture of mercy, nor do Iranian officials want to portray it as a concession to Western critics.
A man described by Iran's state-run Press TV as a U.S. spy with a decade of training made a very public "confession" on Sunday, describing in a live broadcast how he planned to feed information to authorities there in order to win confidence.
An anonymous Iranian engineer says Iran hacked the GPS system of the U.S. drone plane that landed in their territory this month, and guided it into their territory before letting it land.
Iran didn't close the Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, but rumors that it did were enough to send oil prices skyrocketing on Tuesday.
Iran has vowed to "mass produce" the high-tech U.S. drone it recovered two weeks ago but defense experts are laughing the claim out of the room.
The sharpest minds in unmanned aerial aircrafts are being hauled out to scrutinize the high-resolution photographs taken by Iranian officials of the fallen U.S. drone captured in Iran last Thursday.
The wife and son of Robert "Bob" Levinson, an ex-FBI agent kidnapped in Iran in 2007, sent out a heart-breaking plea today begging for his captors to allow Levinson to return home.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson makes light of Iran's newly-acquired drone.
The Iranian government is airing images of the captured U.S drone plane on its state-run, English-language TV station this evening, reports CNN, and it looks like it's in pretty good shape considering that Iran claimed to have shot it down.
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