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Iranian authorities are doing their utmost to ensure that there is no repeat of the daily unrest that followed the 2009 presidential election.

Iran ian director Mohammad Rasoulof poses during a photocall for the film "Dast-Neveshtehaa Nemisoosand" presented in the Un Certain Regard section at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes.

TEHRAN Iran began gearing up for its 11th presidential election after the Interior Ministry published the final list of approved candidates for the June 14 election.

TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.

After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery - for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is.

TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.

According to figures released by officials or official agencies of the Islamic republic, at least 58 people, including two women, were hanged in Iran in the past month.

Two days after being disqualified from running in Iran's upcoming presidential election , former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani broke his silence Thursday, saying that difficult days loom for the country.

Once again the Islamic regime's desire for absolute control of political life in Iran surprised many when it announced their selection of only eight shortlisted presidential candidates out of more than 600 hopefuls who registered .

An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Kaki in Bushehr province, Southern Iran, on Thursday, IRNA reported.

At the same time, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Republican-led House of Representatives unanimously approved new sanctions legislation that, if passed into law, would blacklist foreign countries or companies that fail to reduce their oil imports from Iran to virtually nil within 180 days.

Iran has announced the list of eight qualified candidates who have been approved to campaign for president, including two men who are suspects in a notorious 1994 terrorist attack.

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani sharply criticized the country's leadership, opposition website Kaleme said on Thursday, two days after he was disqualified from running in next month's presidential election.

Head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Wednesday that presence of aliens is the root cause of instability in Afghanistan as well as the entire region, IRNA reported.

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Every four years, the Islamic Republic of Iran engages in a closely choreographed farce of elections, aimed at maintaining the illusion that the Iranian people have a say in how their country is governed.

Metals swap deals with Iran by Switzerland-based commodities giants Glencore Xstrata and Trafigura could have been a way of skirting international sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program, according to a confidential U.N. Panel of Experts report seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

By now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is well-accustomed to enduring blows from Iran's ruling clerics as his reputation fell from favored son to political outcast.

The Iranian government caught two "spies" who worked for the CIA and Mossad recently.

Saudi Arabia's interior minister Major General Mansour Al Turki released a statement of Tuesday announcing that 10 members of an alleged Iranian spy ring had been detained by the Kingdom's security forces .