TEHRAN, Iran — A member of Iran's constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, ef...

On June 14, Iranians will flock to the polls to elect a new president to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. While the field of candidates is large and varie...

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's former nuclear negotiator, now a candidate in Iran's presidential election, pledged Thursday to improve rocky relations with th...

By Babak Dehghanpisheh BEIRUT, March 6 (Reuters) - The presidential campaign season in Iran this year started with a warning. During a...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran's supreme leader is supposed to be many things in the eyes of his followers: Spiritual mentor, protector of the Is...

TEHRAN, Iran -- There was nothing essentially new in the message to Washington from Iran's president on Sunday: Repeating last week's statement by the...

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's supreme leader says that Iranians should not serve the country's enemies by questioning the fairness of upcoming presidential e...

DUBAI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Iran will hold presidential elections on June 14 next year, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, the first such vote sinc...

TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's support in Iran's parliament crumbled as final results released Saturday showed conservative riva...

Last Friday, Iran held its first elections since the controversial 2009 presidential contest, which led to the near-elimination of pro-reform political forces in the Islamic Republic. For this reason, the parliamentary vote should be viewed as an unrepresentative sham -- nothing more than a selection process amongst the ruling conservative elite.

A closer examination of Mr. Netanyahu's record and his philosophical approach to the problems of Middle East leads us to conclude that the talk of war is more than rhetoric and, indeed, indicative of his intent.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared on course Saturday to gain firm control of parliament after elections th...

TEHRAN, Iran — The younger sister of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday failed to win a parliamentary seat in Ahmadinejad's hometown as the ...

By Parisa Hafezi and Zahra Hosseinian TEHRAN, March 2 (Reuters) - Iranians voted on Friday in a parliamentary election expected to re...

TEHRAN, Iran -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's name will be nowhere on Friday's ballots. But the voting for parliament seats will be very much about ...

By silencing reformist candidates, Tehran's leadership is doing the country a disservice. The biggest threat to Iranian sovereignty isn't domestic dissent, but government repression.

Iran is mounting new clampdowns on Internet expression, including rules that will impose layers of surveillance in the country's popular Internet cafe...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's internal power struggles are shifting into election mode with hard-line political forces banding together t...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's embattled president fired back Wednesday after a wave of arrests against his allies, claiming it's part of a "politically ...

Dr. Hossein Ziai is the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar chair at UCLA where he is also a tenured full professor of Islamic and Iranian studies and the d...

A few years after the revolution, Monel fled the country after being beaten in a rally to protest the new regime's imposition of conservative clothing that forced women to don chadors.

TEHRAN, Iran — The trial in Iran opened Tuesday for 12 suspects accused of torturing to death three anti-government protesters tortured in priso...

Iran-watchers are struggling with the cognitive dissonance of it all: how can you still oppose war but support the dismantling of the Islamic theocracy?