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Political troubles hammered Standard Chartered’s shares in London. The sell-off came after it was accused of banking transactions with Iran that

At the 65th Cannes Festival, Iranian film director Asghar Farhadi was, once again, the centre of attention, this time for his next film project. The

Tariq al-Hashimi, Sunni Vice-President of Iraq, is fighting for political survival after being accused of having links to terrorism, an allegation he

Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic, is one of the poorest countries in Central Asia. On Norouz, the first day of the Persian New Year, Emomali

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A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader has told euronews that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency has effectively come to an end with more than a

The 9th elections of Iran’s post-revolution parliament are steeped in controversy, reflecting the deep political divisions within the country. The

Iran’s nuclear saga has taken another turn, as the Deputy Director General of the IAEA declared on his return from Iran on Wednesday, that “Iran is

The nuclear programme in Iran has proven to be an internationally divisive issue. Do the countries who themselves have nuclear power and perhaps also

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is facing political isolation amid a brutal struggle for power in Iran. The country is also being crippled by

Euronews’ exclusive interview with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came on the day that the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, went on

The Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, has been speaking to euronews about the uprisings in some Arabic countries and said that

Dr Abolhassan Banisadr was one of the leading lights of the Islamic revolution in Iran and was close to the Ayatollah Khomeini. In 1980, a year after

Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and Nobel peace prize winner. She recently accepted, on behalf of Abdulreza Tajik, an

After a 14-month rupture of negotiations between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany – known as the 5+1 – and Iran

Is Iran a ‘torture state’? How does Tehran treat political opponents? After the controversial presidential election last year, many opposition

“Being a nuclear power does not mean that we are going to make a bomb” Iran’s nuclear programme has worried the international community for some