Iran

Iran has hanged a convicted rapist and three drug traffickers, the hardline Kayhan newspaper reported on Saturday.

An earthquake in northeastern Iran injured 274 people on Friday, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported, and a slightly stronger tremor struck central Iran on Saturday.

Iran said on Friday it was ready for immediate talks with the United States, Russia and France over an exchange of nuclear fuel and added that it was also against stockpiling higher enriched uranium.

Iran said on Friday it was ready for immediate talks with the United States, Russia and France over an exchange of nuclear fuel and added that it was also against stockpiling higher enriched uranium.

Iran’s atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Friday that Tehran was ready to hold talks with the United States, Russia and France “in the next few days” on a nuclear fuel swap.

The bomb-Iran agitation in Washington combined with President Obama keeping a military option ‘on the table’ may be designed to sweat Tehran into backing down, but it could also limit his options

The bomb-Iran agitation in Washington combined with President Obama keeping a military option ‘on the table’ may be designed to sweat Tehran into backing down, but it could also limit his options

Iran pledged to halt enriching uranium if world powers agree to a nuclear fuel swap deal it signed with Turkey and Brazil, a newspaper on Thursday quoted Turkey’s foreign minister as saying.

Iran and the United States sent positive signals on Wednesday about the possibility of fresh talks on the Iranian nuclear program, which Washington suspects aims to develop atomic weapons.

Iran and the United States sent positive signals on Wednesday about the possibility of fresh talks on the Iranian nuclear program, which Washington suspects aims to develop atomic weapons.