Sources: Al Jazeera Arab News
Gunfire breaks out amid a fire at the Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, resulting in the death of eight inmates and the wounding of 61 more. 2022-10-15
A double bombing injures three police officers in Tehran, Iran. 2019-01-29
Israel foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman warns that the country will hit Tehran if Iran attacks Tel Aviv. 2018-04-26
Search continues for missing firefighters in Tehran's Plasco Building site after the building's deadly fire and collapsing last day. 2017-01-20
The 53 Americans taken hostage in Tehran, Iran, in 1979, or their families, will receive compensation of $4.4 million each from the United States government as a result of a provision in the spending deal signed into law last week. 2015-12-24
The film "Facing Mirrors" hits cinemas in Tehran. Though transsexualism has been legal in Iran since a fatwā was issued in 1987 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Iran permits more sex-change operations than any country except Thailand, this is the first time the subject has been treated on the big screen. 2012-11-2
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Yukiya Amano heads for Tehran to convince the Iranian government to co-operate with the agency. 2012-05-20
Thousands of opposition supporters from Iran's Green Movement march silently through the capital Tehran calling for the release of political prisoners. 2012-02-14
President Ahmadinejad says that Iran will itself produce the 20% enriched uranium to power the Tehran research reactor. 2010-06-12
Iran invites 60 countries to a two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran on April 17–18, entitled "Nuclear energy for everyone, nuclear arms for no one". China says it will attend the conference which invites "the world to disarm and prevent proliferation". 2010-04-4