Iran's foreign ministry said on Thursday that ‘several world leaders’ had mediated the release of two US hikers, freshly freed by Teheran after more than two years in jail on charges of spying and ill

Two US hikers jailed for spying and illegal entry left Teheran for the Gulf sultanate of Oman on Wednesday on their way home to the United States after Iran released them on bail, the official IRNA ne

The lawyer for two Americans convicted of spying in Iran said on Sunday he would appeal their eight-year sentence, which shocked their families who had hoped to see them freed after more than two year

Iran has sentenced two American hikers to eight years in prison for illegally entering the country and spying for a US intelligence agency, state television said on Saturday.

"According to an informe

The top diplomats of Russia and Iran sought a breakthrough on Wednesday on a deal that could revive the stalled nuclear talks between the Islamic state and western powers suspicious of its weapons drive.

Iran urged Britain on Tuesday to show ‘restraint’ in dealing with rioters, the state television website reported.

Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast asked ‘the British government to preven

Iranian police arrested 17 boys and girls over a water fight at a seaside park in the Islamic republic's south, a senior judicial official said on Sunday.

"Seventeen young boys and girls who were squ

An Iranian man convicted of throwing acid in the face of a female student who was to have been blinded himself on Sunday in retribution was pardoned by his victim, the state-run television website sai

India has a back-up plan to cope with a halt to crude supplies from Iran, its oil minister said, as Teheran upped the ante in an oil payments row and Indian refiners rushed to secure alternative suppl

Iran's president wants to shed the nation's secrecy and forge ahead openly with developing nuclear weapons but is opposed by the clerical leadership, which is worried about international reaction to s