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Young woman doctor who fell foul of Iran's 'love police' was strangled
December 2: GP dies in custody after arrest for sitting with her fiancé in the park - and the police say it is suicide

Nuclear ambitions

Iran tries to head off calls for tougher sanctions
December 1: Iran tried last night to weaken support for increased UN sanctions over its nuclear activities by calling for renewed cooperation with the international community after fresh negotiations made no progress on uranium enrichment

Iran faces further sanctions as nuclear talks stall
November 30: Iran faces further sanctions after the European Union's foreign policy chief expressed disappointment with the lack of progress made in the latest round of talks on Tehran's nuclear programme
16.11.07: Decision time for US over Iran threat
16.11.07, audio: Julian Borger on the UN nuclear report
15.11.07: UN reveals new fears over Iran's nuclear capability
15.11.07: Iran hands over nuclear papers - four years late
14.11.07 Iranian charged with passing secrets to UK embassy
03.11.07 Stopping nuclear ambitions

Britain and Iran

Court tells UK to remove Iran opposition from terror list
November 30: Iran's main opposition movement should be removed from the British government's list of banned terrorist organisations, a court has ruled
13.11.07: Brown: UK will lead tough Iran strategy
Audio: Julian Borger on Brown's stance (4min 24secs)
02.11.07: Brown considers plan to give Iran limited supply of uranium

Annapolis summit

Iran leader dubs summit a failure
November 29: Bush hopes for progress despite press scepticism
ˇ US to monitor parties' compliance to road map

Espionage claims

Official cleared of spying despite intervention by Iran's president
November 28: A former Iranian nuclear negotiator was cleared of spying for the west yesterday in a verdict that appeared to vindicate opponents of the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranian hardliners accuse former nuclear negotiator of leaking secrets to UK embassy
November 15: Claims come on eve of crucial report by IAEA
ˇ Clash between pragmatists and president intensifies

Iran's weaponry

Iran unveils long-range missile
November 27: Ashoura missile can reach Israel and US bases in the Middle East, defence minister says

Life in Iran

Leaving home for the homeland
November 24: An increasing number of Jewish Iranians are emigrating to Israel because of growing tensions at home. Rory McCarthy reports from Jerusalem
25.10.07: Iran clamps down on coffee shops

Comment and debate

Israel, unlike Iran, poses no threat to its neighbours
November 30: We're committed to making the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, but peace has to come first, says Ron Prosor

The Middle East has had a secretive nuclear power for years
November 20, George Monbiot: When will the US and the UK tell the truth about Israeli weapons? Iran isn't starting an atomic arms race, it's joining one
11.11.07, Martin Woollacott: Heed Iran's dissidents
04.11.07, Mary Riddell: Now is the time for clarity over Iran
01.11.07: Europe must finally make the hard choices
28.10.07: Bombing Iran will ensure world peace
31.10.07: Let Iran decide regime changes

US policy

Ahmadinejad offers to be an observer at US presidential election
November 27: He denounces it as the "Great Satan" and frequently dismisses its power, but the overtures of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the US seem to grow ever more extravagant
26.11.07: Iran leader's blog attracts critics
24.11.07: Pay boost for saffron pickers casts cloud over 3,000-year-old export industry
20.11.07: Ahmadinejad in dog house over security sweep
13.11.07: Ahmadinejad steps up rhetoric against critics at home with threat to expose 'traitors'

Iraqi fighters 'grilled for evidence on Iran'
November 11: Interrogator says US military seeks evidence incriminating Tehran
09.11.07: US frees nine Iranians held in Iraq
09.11.07: Washington tells EU firms: quit Iran now

Your letters

Iranian bomb could be 18 months away
November 22: The estimate by the head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, in October that Iran would need between another three and eight years to prepare a nuclear weapon (Letters, November 19) was reasonable. But he would not make that estimate now
19.11.07, letters: Imaginative approaches to Iran
15.11.07, letters: Brown's hard-headed internationalism
08.11.07, letters: Hands off Iran - remember Falluja
06.11.07, letters: Threats won't work in Tehran

United Nations

UN ready to impose new Iran sanctions
November 2: Permanent security council members and Germany agree to finalise text for third UN resolution

Dolphin deaths

Suicide or murder? Iran blames US after 152 dolphins die
November 2: Official says military ships behind mystery deaths

Art

The art no one sees
October 29: Picassos, Renoirs and Van Goghs among Ł2.5bn worth of western masterpieces locked in vaults of museum

Mohammad Khatami

Khatami hints at comeback
October 26: Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami has fuelled speculation of a possible comeback by bluntly accusing his successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of peddling false statistics to hide rising inflation and unemployment

Audio

'Thin end of a very important wedge'
May 29: After the first official diplomatic meetings between the US and Iran since 1980, Jonathan Steele explains what the discussions really achieved (3min 17s)
12.12.06: 'A freakshow of racists and anti-Semites'
20.10.06, audio: Ahmadinejad pokes fun at Zionist lobby

Interactive guides
A worker at Iran's Isfahan nuclear facility Telltale technology
Interactive: Civil nuclear technologies are similar to military ones. How do you tell them apart?
Iran's nuclear programme
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In pictures
Another day in the life of Bam. Photograph: Picture People Another day in Bam
February 24: Take two in the photo project enlisting the inhabitants of the quake-hit Iranian city
17.06.05: Presidential poll
26.11.04: A day in the life of Bam
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From the archive

Iranian toll climbs to 36,000
June 23 1990: Survivors struggled with bare hands alongside rescuers to reach thousands still buried beneath mud and rubble as the estimated death toll in Iran's earthquake reached 36,000 last night, with more than 100,000 injured
13.02.79: Bakhtiar quits after losing army backing
12.02.79, leader: Human rights - the best test for the West
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 Recent articles
02.12.07   Young woman doctor who fell foul of Iran's 'love police' was strangled
01.12.07   Iran tries to head off calls for tougher sanctions
30.11.07   Israel, unlike Iran, poses no threat to its neighbours
30.11.07   Court tells UK to remove Iran opposition from terror list
30.11.07   Iran faces further sanctions as nuclear talks stall
29.11.07   Iran leader dubs summit a failure
28.11.07   Official cleared of spying despite intervention by Iran's president
27.11.07   Ahmadinejad offers to be an observer at US presidential election
27.11.07   Iranian court clears former nuclear adviser of spying
27.11.07   Iran unveils long-range missile
26.11.07   Iran leader's blog attracts critics
24.11.07   Leaving home for the homeland
24.11.07   Pay boost for saffron pickers casts cloud over 3,000-year-old export industry
24.11.07   Arms dealer jailed for sale of Iranian guns to Kuwait
22.11.07   Iranian bomb could be 18 months away
 Comment
30.11.07  Israel, unlike Iran, poses no threat to its neighbours
20.11.07  The Middle East has had a secretive nuclear power in its midst for years
17.11.07  Heed Iran's dissidents
14.11.07  In the delicate geometry of Iran lies the big test of Brown's political agility
01.11.07  Facing disaster in Iran, Europe must finally make the hard choices
29.10.07  Iran's leaders need enemies like Bush, and at every turn he obliges them
05.10.07  The fallout from an attack on Iran would be devastating
25.09.07  Iran and the US must talk
20.09.07  We must weigh the moral cost of withdrawal from Basra and Baghdad
07.08.07  Prospects of Armageddon
18.07.07  This flurry of Middle East activity is the product of a very real threat: Iran
18.06.07  Sir Salman's long journey
15.05.07  Bush doesn't want detente. He wants to attack Iran
13.04.07  We cannot look from the sides as we are led towards crisis over Iran
10.04.07  It is lunacy to reopen this sensitive diplomatic wound


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