BY SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI
Associated Press Writer

BEIRUT (AP) — As they gear up for a major anti-government protest Monday, Iranian students are besieged by a clampdown in the universities, with a wave of arrests and expulsions. At the same time, authorities are…

LONDON (AP) — A group of yachtsmen held briefly by Iran after their boat crossed into Iranian waters returned to Britain on Friday.

Smiling and looking relaxed, Oliver Smith, Oliver Young, Sam Usher and Luke Porter arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport…

By WILLIAM J. BROAD
New York Times

Iran said Friday that it would keep plans for 10 new enrichment plants secret until six months before they were ready to concentrate uranium into nuclear fuel, a policy sure to heighten tensions with…

BY NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press Witer

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran warned on Tuesday that it will prosecute five British sailors if it is proven they had “bad intentions” when their 60-foot racing yacht entered its waters, in what Britain says was…

BY NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press Writer

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Tehran is reviewing the option of decreasing cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog after it issued a resolution critical of Iran last week.

Speaking in a…

BY RAPHAEL G. SATTER
Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) — Iran is holding five British sailors after stopping their racing yacht in the Persian Gulf, the British government said Monday. The move could heighten tensions between Iran and major world powers, including…

BY DAVID E. SANGER AND WILLIAM J. BROAD
New York Times

The director of the U.N. nuclear watchdog declared in unusually blunt language on Thursday that Iran has stonewalled investigators about evidence that the country had worked on nuclear weapons design,…

BY NAZILA FATHI
New York Times News Service

TORONTO — An Iranian-American scholar, Kian Tajbakhsh, already serving a 15-year prison sentence for spying, is facing a new charge of spying, a family member said Wednesday.

Tajbakhsh told his wife during a visit at…

By NASSER KARIMI and IAN MacDOUGALL
Associated Press Writers

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, her lawyer and Norway’s government said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps they are taking…

BY GEORGE JAHN
Associated Press Writer

VIENNA (AP) — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency urged Iran on Wednesday to endorse a plan that would strip it of most of its enriched uranium, saying Tehran could not defuse fears about…