Russia on Friday warned Iran it was missing out on a chance to start a broad dialogue, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton again sought to win the Kremlin's assent for tougher stance on Tehran. Iran's defiance over its nuclear programme means the country is wasting a chance for talks to find a solution, Foreign Minister Sergei ...

Opposition leader and former premier Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed a "year of perseverance" in his fight against the government, in an Internet message on Friday to mark the Iranian New Year. European states also said Tehran should stop censoring the Internet and jamming satellite broadcasts to Iran. Mousavi, who remains steadfast in rejecting last June's re-election of President Mahmoud ...

EU nations are determined to take action to end Iran's "unacceptable" jamming of satellite broadcasts and Internet censorship, according to a text agreed by European ambassadors in Brussels. "The EU calls on the Iranian authorities to stop the jamming of satellite broadcasting and Internet censorship and to put an end to this electronic interference immediately," said the text prepared ...

A teenaged daughter of Osama bin Laden has been allowed to fly out of Tehran where she had taken refuge in Saudi Arabia's embassy, a Saudi-financed newspaper reported on Friday. Asharq Al-Awsat said Iman bin Laden arrived in Damascus on a commercial flight on Thursday together with her mother Najwa al-Ghanem, the fugitive Al-Qaeda chief's first wife. The ...