Iran censorship 'getting worse'
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Iran's Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi says that censorship by the authorities in her country is getting stricter.
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Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic Revolution but are now letting up slightly
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Iran steps up protests over award of knighthood to British author.
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Text of report by Iranian newspaper Keyhan on 15 August "We seriously try to filter undesirable internet content.
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Iran's leaders apparently believe that the benefits of obtaining a nuclear bomb now outweigh the drawbacks.
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TEHRAN -- Iran accused Britain yesterday of insulting Islamic values by knighting Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant against him.
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The US expresses grave concern over what it calls the worsening human rights situation in Iran.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube.com, and a press rights group warned on Tuesday that Internet censorship in the Islamic state is on the rise.
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A look at Iran's recent crackdown on perceived internal threats:
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Twenty-five years after its revolution of 1979, Iran has yet again become too big of a problem for Washington to play politics with.
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The UN's nuclear watchdog warns "new crazies" against bombing Iran to stop its nuclear programme.
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The Bush administration announced sweeping new sanctions against Iran Thursday  -  the harshest since the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in 1979
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Business & money: Mounting US crackdown on foreign companies doing business with Iran provoke opposition in Europe.
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Military action against Iran with the goal of shutting down its nuclear programme would be &quot;highly dangerous&quot; and &quot;counter-productive,&quot; according to an independent British report.
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Iran on Saturday accused British leaders of &quot;Islamophobia&quot; for knighting Indian-born author Salman Rushdie, who was issued with a death fatwa by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago.
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U.S. News & World Report - The Bush administration's $75 million effort to promote democracy in Iran over the long run is likely to backfire, stiffening the resolve of the Islamic regime to hold on to power and landing democratic-minded activists in jail, a senior European diplomat tells U.S. News.
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Pragmatists in Iran&#39;s clerical regime were under pressure from hardliners on Tuesday who lined up to condemn an agreement to suspend sensitive nuclear activities in line with international demands.