Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued on December 28 a religious decree to Muslims around the world, ordering them to defend Palestinians against Israel's attacks on Gaza, state television said.
Iran will send its first ship carrying aid to the Gaza Strip despite an Israeli naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory, state television reported.
The U.S. Justice Department is alleging that a 36-story skyscraper in Manhattan is secretly co-owned by an Iranian bank with ties to the government in Tehran. Prosecutors are seeking to seize the property and freeze millions of dollars in assets they say belong to the bank.
Iran is hosting its first fashion and costume-design festival to promote Islamic styles, both for adults and children.
The British government has condemned the airing of a televised Christmas address by Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
The world's troubles are rooted in a rejection of God and if Jesus Christ lived today he would stand up against bullying powers, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will tell Britons on Christmas Day.
TEHRAN (Reuters) -- Iran has hanged nine convicted murderers, including a woman, in a Tehran prison, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
The Iranian authorities are still milking the shoe-throwing incident for all it's worth. A shoe-throwing contest is due to be held at a university in Tehran on December 24.
Rights activists and watchdog groups are marking the six-month anniversary of Iran's detention of internationally known HIV/AIDS researchers and educators Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei.
Although U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has expressed a willingness to sit down and talk with Iran's leadership, doubts remain over whether the Iranian leadership has sufficient flexibility to reach a meaningful agreement.
Ministers from gas-exporting countries met in Moscow to finalize the rules of an emerging organization, the Gas Exporting Countries Forum. The organization groups Russia, the world's biggest gas producer, with more than a dozen other producing nations. Russian officials are downplaying Western concerns that the forum is an attempt to emulate the price-setting influence of OPEC.
In an interview with RFE/RL, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi vows to fight on, despite the closure of her human rights center by Iranian authorities. Ebadi believes she was targeted because of her influence at the UN, which last week issued a resolution critical of Iran's rights abuses.
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