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 ...

Iran's defiance over its nuclear programme means the country is missing out on a chance to start broad international dialogue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. "It is letting an opportunity to establish dialogue with the international community slip away," said Lavrov alongside US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The top diplomats addressed reporters following Clinton's ...

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. Mousavi, who remains steadfast in rejecting last June's re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said a "retreat would be treason to Islam, the nation and to the blood of ...

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed a "year of perseverance" in his fight against the government, in an Internet message on Friday marking the Persian new year. Mousavi, who remains steadfast in rejecting the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June last year, said a "retreat would be treason to Islam, the nation and to the blood of the ...