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Iran's supreme leader issued a tough warning Monday to the opposition to back down after a pro-reform former president called ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday his next government "would bring down the global arrogance," signaling a tougher approach toward the West after June's disputed election.

The crash of an Iranian plane that killed 168 was probably caused by technical problems, an official says.

Investigators have recovered two of the three black boxes belonging to a Russian-made jetliner that crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran, Iran's state radio reported Thursday.

Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency believes Iran is capable of producing and testing an atomic bomb within six months, much sooner than most analysts estimate, according to a report in German weekly Stern.

A Caspian Airlines passenger aircraft linking Tehran and Armenia crashed in Iran on Wednesday, and at least 150 people on board are feared killed, state media reported.

Rumored facility in Nicaragua suggests expansion into the West may be less substantive than feared.

Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital Thursday, chanting "death to the dictator" and defying security forces who fired tear gas and charged with batons, witnesses said. Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other ...

Iranian police fired in the air to disperse pro-reform demonstrators in central Tehran on Thursday, nearly four weeks after a disputed election triggered mass protests in the capital, a witness said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought to put the turmoil over the disputed presidential elections behind him and declared on national television that the contests were clean, fair and were the start of a new era.