The mothers of three US citizens held in Iran for 10 months amid spy accusations have called for their release as a “humanitarian gesture” following a reunion with their children.
Iran detained Sarah Shourd, 31; Shane Bauer, 27; and Josh Fattal, 27 on July 31, accusing them of illegal border crossing, spying and having links to [...]
Iran has signed an agreement brokered by Brazil to ship low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel for its power plant, according to official media.
The deal agreed on Monday would oblige Iran to send Turkey 1.2 tonnes of uranium under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Turkey would give Iran 120kg [...]
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, is visiting Iran for a nuclear summit that may prove to be Tehran’s last chance to avoid new UN sanctions.
Lula said in Moscow before departing for Tehran that he was “optimistic” and hoped to be able to persuade Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, to reach an agreement [...]
A French woman who has been held on espionage charges in Iran since July has been released and is on the way home, the French president’s office says.
Sunday’s announcement comes a day after Clotilde Reiss’ lawyer said she would be acquitted.
“The president of the republic will receive her and her family at the Elysee Palace [...]
The Iranian president has criticised the United States for threatening to use nuclear weapons and dismissed claims that his country is trying to develop them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the opening session of a UN conference reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York on Monday that the US “has never respected any of its commitments” [...]
High-level representatives from the US and Iran are set to address a nuclear non-proliferation conference amid a deepening row over Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is the only head of state taking part in the UN nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, which will host delegations from 189 countries.
He will speak at [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is due to sign trade agreements with Zimbabwe during a visit to the country.
At a trade fair in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe, on Friday, Ahmadinejad said that the level of trade between the two nations was not at full capacity and should improve.
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, [...]
Iran’s president has called for the formation of a new international body to oversee nuclear disarmament as the country opened a two-day summit on civilian nuclear energy in the capital, Tehran.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the call on Saturday at a summit seen as a counterpoint to a major conference in Washington earlier this week, in which [...]
Iran has announced it has developed faster centrifuges for uranium enrichment, signalling a determination to press on with its nuclear work despite possible new sanctions sought by Barack Obama, the US president.
In a ceremony marking Iran’s National Day of Nuclear Technology on Friday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, unveiled one of the new machines to a [...]
The US president has called his Chinese counterpart to talk about Iran’s controversial nuclear programme after Beijing agreed to join discussions on possible new sanctions against the country.
Barack Obama and Hu Jintao spoke for about one hour on Thursday, with the US president highlighting “the importance of working together to ensure that Iran lives up [...]