Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu on Saturday paid a surprise visit to Iran and met with his colleague Mohammad Javad Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani. The main topics were the war in Syria and the fight against Islamic State.
The number of dead has risen as a result of the train crash Friday in Iran to 45. More than a hundred people were injured.
A train accident, according to state media certainly claimed five lives in the north of Iran. Another twenty people were injured.
Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday warned the US not to extend by ten years the current sanctions. Khamenei states on its website that the continuation of the measures are in violation of the nuclear deal and reports that Tehran will take retaliatory measures.
An Iranian man who threw seven years ago when a four-year girl acid in the face, making it permanently became blind Tuesday as punishment blinded.
An Iranian court on Wednesday sentenced fifteen people storming the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran. Three men were sentenced to six months in prison and seventy lashes.
Iranian Justice Minister Mustafa Purmohammedi wants there to be fewer pronounced the death penalty in his country and sentenced to be executed.
Iran claims that it has forged a US drone. It is an unmanned plane that can fly a long distance in the country and four precision bombs can carry as weapons.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not return as president of Iran. Tuesday he announced that he did not participate in the presidential elections next year.
A Canadian professor of Iranian descent who was arrested in Tehran in June, is released. This was announced by a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday. The 65-year-old woman, Homa Hoodfar, the land has been abandoned, the spokesman said, according to the news channel PressTV.
The supreme leader of Iran sees no value in a new term for former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, crosses or no wand for a new roll of Ahmadinejad to the presidency, but discourages him who, Iranian media report. That, however, experts say almost the same thing.
"Iran has responded positively to the planned ceasefire in Syria. Tehran always stressed to have been in favor of a cease-fire, to allow as humanitarian aid to the population."
The spiritual leader of Shiite Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday fiercely lashed out at Sunni family that Saudi Arabia and there reigns situated holy places. Khamenei said the Saudis disbelievers with a very sensitive nature. The Islamic world would be better off in his administration of the holy places in Mecca and Medina to true Muslims to trust.
Iran is going to help Russia build a second nuclear power plant. The boss of the Iranian nuclear authority, Ali Akbar Salehi, announced that the construction starts next Saturday.
In the Syrian city of Aleppo is an Iranian general, Ahmad Gholami, in the fight against the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State killed. This Wednesday reported the Iranian news agency ISNA.
Russia is to attack rebels in Syria no longer use an air base in Iran. Commissioned by the Iranian Foreign Ministry Monday know.
The United States has acknowledged that a payment of $ 400 million to Iran withheld were released five American prisoners. It is not about ransom, stressed the US State Department.
Iran claims it has arrested a spy for the British Secret Service. Iran's public prosecutor had announced on Tuesday that it is a person who has a western country both Iranian nationality and the nationality.
Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who was held captive since 2010 in his own country, was executed according to his family. His mother said Saturday the BBC that the body of Amiri has been transferred.
Iran has executed this week twenty men for terrorism. According to Iranian media, they were members of a Sunni terrorist movement in the northwest of the country.
The Iranian judiciary has three Western nationals who have Iranian nationality, accused of espionage and cooperation with Western intelligence agencies.
A tree of an Iranian on social media named the national hero after the bodybuilder has announced its intention to fight against the Islamic State.
For the first time in about ten years, Foreign Minister of Iran brings back an official visit to the Netherlands. Mohammad Javad Zarif talks Thursday among others with Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Minister Bert Koenders of Foreign Affairs.
A critical report on a prison in the capital Tehran, the reformist newspaper Ghanoon dearly. The government has imposed a publication ban sheet indefinitely.
Iran is prepared to settle the disputes with its archrival Saudi Arabia. The region has no more tension, but need peace and stability, said Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi Friday according to ISNA news agency. The Saudi decision to sever relations with Iran had claimed Aragchi therefore not sensible.
The German government has expressed unusually harsh exhibit with cartoons about the Holocaust in the Iranian capital Tehran. 'The murder of six million men, women and children, for which we as Germans are to blame and responsibility must not be the subject of ridicule,' said a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry.
Iranian police have arrested several people in connection with online published fashion photographs of women without headscarves. Certainly eight models, including seven young women without the obligatory headscarf and numerous photographers and makeup artists were arrested by agents, Iranian media reported Monday.
Thomas Erdbrink (40) presents this year VPRO Zomergasten. The journalist and Iran correspondent follows Wilfried de Jong on which the full-length TV shows presented three summer long.
The reformers around President Hassan Rouhani Friday also won the second round of the parliamentary elections in Iran. The reported several media in the country Saturday.
The revolutionary court in Tehran has sentenced four Iranian journalists to prison terms ranging from five to ten years. Confirming their lawyer. Against the sentence is appealed.
