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Twenty-two people are killed and 87 others injured after a train travelling between Mashhad and Yazd collides with an excavator near Tabas, South Khorasan province, Iran.
2022-06-8

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes Hormozgan Province, Iran, at a depth of 10 km and is felt in many southern Iranian cities. A man killed by a falling pole is the sole death reported.
2021-11-14

Iranian state media report a deal to release $7 billion of frozen Iranian funds has been reached between Iran, the United States, and the United Kingdom for the release of prisoners with Western-links, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, in which the British government has agreed to pay a £400 million debt for her release.
2021-05-2

At least seven ships are burnt following an unspecified incident in the Iranian port city of Bushehr.
2020-07-15

Israel charges former energy minister Gonen Segev with spying for Iran. Segev is in custody; he was extradited from Equatorial Guinea.
2018-06-18

The Iranian ministry of interior sets 14 June 2013 as the date of the next presidential election, for a successor of current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. For the first time, this election is to be held on the same date as the next municipal elections.
2012-09-7

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi wins three awards, including the Golden Bear, for his film "Nader and Simin, A Separation" as the 61st Berlin International Film Festival ends. There are other winners from Argentina, Albania, Germany and Hungary.
2011-02-19

The Gambia severs diplomatic and economic relations with Iran and orders Iranian government representatives to leave within 48 hours. The Gambia has given no reason for the move.
2010-11-23

Iran says it is ready to resume international talks over its nuclear program "in a place and on a date convenient to both sides", says a letter to the European Union.
2010-10-29

The United States is pleased after Russia suggests Iran could build a nuclear weapon in future, an unusual admission from Moscow.
2010-07-12