Iran Times

Iran has hanged three men who were convicted of killing several policemen in the eastern city of Birjand, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.

Iran’s visiting parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, has suggested Tehran may increase the amount of production of 20 percent enriched uranium to supply fuel for its medical research reactor if it does not receive the fuel from other countries.

A small group of reformist members of Iran’s parliament want the government to release imprisoned journalists and political activists before the Persian New Year on March 21, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.

Ali Saidi, representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader in the Revolutionary Guards spoke out against Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khomeini, for taking a stance against “the system and the Leader.”

Opposition leader, in strongest criticism yet, says dictatorial “cult” ruling Iran

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced on Saturday that its forces have disbanded and arrested a group of radical criminals with Wahhabi tendencies in the country’s northwestern province of West Azarbaijan.

The Bush administration introduced Ahmad Chalabi , the former U.S. ally and perennially controversial Iraqi politician, as a secular, pro-Western Mr. Fix-It who could slide right into Saddam Hussein’s old seat.

Russia will not support crippling sanctions against Iran, including any that may be slapped on the Islamic Republic’s banking or energy sectors, a senior Russian diplomat said on Wednesday.

Iran’s opposition protesters were reeling after a ferocious security clampdown foiled their attempt to hold mass demonstrations, describing how government militiamen seemed to be everywhere on Tehran’s streets, swooping in to break up their gatherings.

Israel may lack the military means for successful preemptive strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, former Chief of Staff Dan Halutz told Channel 2 news on Saturday.

Austria joins the US in stepping up efforts to punish Iran over Tehran’s decision to produce nuclear fuel for a research reactor, warning that sanctions could be in store for the Islamic Republic.

With tensions over Iran’s nuclear ambitions hitting new levels, the United States is mounting a diplomatic full-court press in the Middle East, sending four top diplomats, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, to confer with Arab and Israeli leaders.

Austria warned Iran on Friday that time was running out on a negotiated solution to its nuclear programme and that sanctions could be in store for the Islamic Republic.

One of Iran’s opposition Green Movement leaders Mehdi Karroubi discusses the chances of changing Iran’s politics.

Iran’s latest nuclear provocation is a bluff, experts argue, and the West should be wary of being drawn into talks with Tehran that might hand a victory to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s fragile regime.