Iranian state media say the country has successfully test-fired a newly upgraded missile system near the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic passageway in the Persian Gulf.
Iranian officials say a small American commercial plane made an emergency landing earlier this month in southwestern Iran after facing technical problems.
In what appears to be a significant softening of tone, a hard-line Iranian cleric, Mashhad Friday Prayer leader Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, has said that it is wrong to consider opposition leaders Mir Hossein Musavi and Mehdi Karrubi as "seditionists."
Since the Iranian supreme leader made his debut on Facebook, many have taken a liking to the idea that the authorities unblock access to the popular social-networking site.
Iranian state-run media report that Iran’s navy has begun drills in the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf waterway on Iran's southern coast that is used to transport around one-third of the world's seaborne oil exports.
Iranian state television reports that President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has sacked Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi.
Iran is denying complaints that Tehran pays a special fee to the Bushehr nuclear power plant's Russian female technicians in order to adhere to the country's Islamic dress code.
The commander of Iran's navy says that it will begin six days of naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz at the end of this week.
An Iranian lawmaker is complaining that Russian women technicians at the Bushehr nuclear power plant are being paid to adhere to a strict Islamic dress code, but are routinely violating that code.
Iranian officials say they have brought under control an Internet virus that attacked computers at industrial sites in southern Iran.
Iran's official news agency says the president's press adviser has returned to prison after being on a four-day medical leave granted by judicial authorities.
A young Iranian artist has found an unusual way to highlight the plight of Iranians who say sanctions are making it hard for them to get the medicines they need. She's filled empty pill capsules with tiny strips of paper telling their stories.
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