US President Barack Obama has extended the national emergency against Iran by one more year, which has been in place since 1979.

"Because our relations with Iran have not yet returned to normal and

As confrontation appeared looming in the Persian Gulf over Iran's nuclear intentions, the country's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said Teheran ‘does not need an atomic bomb’ to take on the

Iran is on the threshold of nuclear capability by mastering the critical steps needed to build a weapon after receiving assistance from a foreign scientist.

The country has overcome key technical hu

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday he had 100 'undeniable documents' proving the United States has been behind 'terrorist acts' in the Islamic state and elsewhere in the Mi

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking cabinet support for a military strike on Iran, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Wednesday, after days of speculation about plans for an attack.

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US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday warned Iran that it should not meddle in Iraq when American forces leave the country at the end of this year.

The Pentagon chief said that even after th

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dismissed on Saturday US allegations of a Tehran-sponsored assassination plot as 'absurd,' in his first direct reaction to the claim.

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US authorities charged two Iranians in a 'plot directed by elements of the Iranian Government' to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States as part of a major terror attack.

Two US hikers accused Iran on Sunday of using them as ‘hostages’ in its power struggle with the West and described hearing the anguished cries of fellow inmates being beaten in Tehran's Evin prison.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Iran on a date to be decided mutually after consultations. Singh accepted in principle the invitation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad to visit Iran wh