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An ultraconservative judiciary chief appears to have the only real chance of winning after a council of powerful clerics disqualified virtually all the other viable candidates. TEHRAN -- Come presidential [...]

Potential rivals to Ebrahim Raisi, Ayatollah Khamenei's favored choice, were barred from the June 18 election, and the remaining candidates do not present a serious challenge. Candidates in Iran's presidential [...]

Enormous antigovernment demonstrations in Iraq and Lebanon, some tinged with hostility toward Iran, have suddenly put Iran's interests at risk. Iran's hierarchy often rails against the United States, Israel and [...]

The parliament of Iran has made a move to have President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad impeached, but this was prevented by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The legislators accuse Ahmadinejad and his government of violating the law on fourteen counts.

In the wake of increased protest against the Iranian government and its officials by student protesters and opposition supporters, the government is coming down hard on so-called 'star student'; those who are marked on a special list as dissenters and troublemakers. They have been taken from their classes, beaten, and forbidden to continue their education.

Supporters of the opposition in Iran hit the streets to mourn the death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, one of the most revered figures in Iran. Montazeri was an outspoken critic of the current government. The opposition was further galvanized by allegations by military prosecutors that prison guards tortured to at least three student protesters to death during the massive protests last July.

Ramin Pourandarjani, a young doctor in Iran, died suddenly and mysteriously after he refused to falsify death certificates at a prison for political prisoners. After he gave testimony at a committee of Iran's parliament that prisoners were being tortured and raped by their jailers, he became fearful for his life. His death has become a symbol for the political opposition in Iran, and his family says he was murdered for refusing to help in a coverup of abuse at the prison.

Five British yachtsmen who were taken into custody by Iranian authorities when their yacht strayed into Iranian waters were released. At the same time, the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announced that Iran would up its uranium enrichment program by 20%.

Iran plans to build 10 more nuclear facilities for uranium enrichment and also has threatened to withdrawn from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran also wants plans made to pull out of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United nations' nuclear oversight agency. These moves jeopardize the current compromise on uranium enrichment agreed upon with Europe and the United States.