TEHRAN — Iran offered yesterday to resume nuclear talks with the United States and other world powers, though it set a possible deal-breaking ground rule by insisting that a key international demand be left off the table.

At the height of Iran’s bloody civil unrest this year, a young doctor named Ramin Pourandarjani defied his superiors. He refused to sign death certificates at a Tehran prison that he said were falsified to cover up murder. He testified to a...

When millions of Iranians took to the streets following June’s presidential elections, their main target was Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the hardline president they accused of stealing the vote. Convinced that Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the former prime...

The Iranian state broadcaster, Irib, has been accused of faking dramatic footage of an anti-government protester setting fire to a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s revered revolutionary leader. The images caused shock and incredulity when...

The Iranian regime has a problem, and it’s not a velvet revolution or Israel’s threat to bomb its nuclear facilities. No, what really keeps the mullahs up at night is the specter of ethnic and sectarian conflict — more attacks like the...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can in one instant appear the diplomatic equivalent of damaged goods and in the next a confident leader whose bellicose speeches leave the West wondering how to deal with him and his perplexing nation now that...

Tehran’s main squares and streets have been crowded until the wee hours over this past week, as supporters of the upcoming election’s two leading contestants roam the streets on foot and in cars, chanting, honking their horns, waving...

Israel is the root of all problems in the Middle East, and the source of all the wars in the region, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday. “The source of the conflict in the Middle East is the Palestinian issue,” he said during...