Iran

Iran

Iran unveils new nuclear facilities

Iran has unveiled the country's newest advanced nuclear centrifuge in a ceremony to mark the National Nuclear Technology Day.

10/04/2021

Experiences

A holiday turned into being chased around Iran by the secret police

Lisa Jackson gives us her first-hand experience of encounters with secret services in Tehran.

07/04/2021

Iran

France urges Iran to avoid nuclear escalation ahead of talks

Washington and Tehran said they would take part in indirect talks in Vienna next week, nearly three years after President Trump pulled the US out of the 2015 nuclear deal.

03/04/2021

Iran

Iran and other world powers ready to welcome back US to nuclear deal

Former US President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the landmark nuclear deal in 2018 but Joe Biden has indicated that the U.S. would be willing to rejoin.

02/04/2021

Iran

Iran charges French tourist with spying and ‘spreading propaganda’

It’s the latest in a series of cases against foreigners at a time of heightened tensions between Iran and the West.

15/03/2021

Iran

Iran begins restricting international inspections of nuclear plants

State TV reported the country had officially begun restrictions on nuclear inspections, in what is seen as a bid to pressure the west into lifting sanctions and restore the 2015 nuclear deal.

23/02/2021

Iran

Iran agrees to maintain nuclear surveillance temporarily

Iran’s parliament in December approved a bill that would suspend part of UN inspections of its nuclear facilities if European signatories do not provide relief from oil and banking sanctions by Tuesday, February 23.

21/02/2021

Iran

EU has role in salvaging Iran deal, says Tehran UN envoy

"There are specific roles in that the EU can play and should play," says Tehran's United Nations Ambassador, Majid Takht-Ravanchi.

17/02/2021

Iran

Iran says it has started enriching uranium up to 20%

It comes amid escalating tensions with the US and marks the Middle Eastern country's largest breach of the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with several other countries.

04/01/2021

Iran

Iran-US tensions high a year after killing of military chief Soleimani

There are fears of a renewed US-Iran clash a year after the US drone killing of the Revolutionary Guard chief, in the dying days of Donald Trump's presidency.

03/01/2021

Iran

Iran tells UN inspectors it plans to enrich uranium to 20%

This would push the country's programme a technical step away from weapons-grade levels as it increases pressure on the West over its tattered atomic deal.

02/01/2021

Iran

Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 protests

Iran executed a once-exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.

12/12/2020

Iran

France, Germany and UK brand Iran’s nuclear plans ‘deeply worrying’

Iranian plans to build three advanced centrifuges, in contravention of the Iran Nuclear Deal, are “deeply worrying” according to the governments of France, Germany and the UK.

07/12/2020

Iran

Iran's president opposes bill that would boost uranium enrichment

The bill would suspend U.N. inspections and require the government to resume enriching uranium to 20% if European nations fail to provide relief from crippling U.S. sanctions on the country's oil and banking sectors.

03/12/2020

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Iran lays to rest nuclear scientist and vows to carry his forward work

Ali Shamkhani, a top Iranian security official, used the funeral to accuse Israel of using “electronic devices” to kill the nuclear scientist.

30/11/2020

Iran

Iran vows to retaliate over top nuclear scientist's killing

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif says there are 'serious indications of [an] Israeli role' in the death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was shot dead on Friday

27/11/2020

Iran

British-Australian academic released after years jailed in Iran

Kylie Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison on disputed espionage charges, but was released early in exchange for three Iranians held abroad.

26/11/2020

Iran

Iran: UN arms embargo ends after ten years amid U.S. anger

Iran welcomed the expiration of the deal, but said it was not planning to go on a 'shopping spree'.

19/10/2020

Iran

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's trial postponed in Iran

The British-Iranian national, who has served four a half years of her a five-year sentence, faces new charges.

13/09/2020

Iran

Iran executes young wrestler Navid Afkari despite global appeals

"The execution of Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari is very sad news," the International Olympic Committee said.

12/09/2020

Iran

Iran announces new charge against detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Zaghari-Ratcliffe appeared Tuesday morning before a branch of the country’s Revolutionary Court in Tehran, where she was first sentenced to prison on murky espionage charges in 2017.

09/09/2020

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Mourning and masks: Shiites in Iran mark Ashoura amid COVID-19

Ashoura Day falls on the 10th of the Islamic month of Muharram and is preceded by days of commemoration and remembrance.

30/08/2020

Iran

Black boxes show pilots alive after missile hit Ukraine jet in Iran

The Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet, crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran's main airport on January 8, killing all 176 people on board.

23/08/2020

Iran

UN atomic watchdog chief to head to Iran as global tensions simmer

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi's visit to Iran comes as tensions mount between the United States and Europe over nuclear-related economic sanctions.

22/08/2020

Iran

US revises UN resolution on Iran to extend arms embargo indefinitely

The draft revision could be put to a vote as early as Friday.

12/08/2020

Iran

Iranian passenger plane 'harassed' over Syria by US fighter jet

One F-15 fighter plane did briefly surveil the Iranian passenger jet from a safe distance but disengaged after it established it was a civilian aircraft, the US confirmed.

24/07/2020