Iran: special report

The Syrian National Coalition confirms it will attend peace talks in Geneva on Wednesday, after the UN withdraws its controversial last-minute invitation for Iran to attend.

Iran hangs 16 “rebels” in revenge for an attack by an unspecified armed group on the country’s border with Pakistan that left 14 border guards dead.

Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani has claimed an outright victory in Iran’s presidential election, the country’s interior minister announces.

The US Navy denies it has lost any drones in the Middle East, following claims by Iran that a small unmanned aircraft was shot down over the Gulf.

Relations with Iran may sometimes determine the direction of Israel’s foreign policy, but the Gaza conflict is unlikely to be a dry run for an Israeli attack on its Middle Eastern rival.

Iran tried to shoot down an unmanned US surveillance drone in international airspace over the Gulf, the US claims, as tensions rise further between Tehran and Washington.

Documentary maker David Patrikarakos, one of the producers of tonight’s Dispatches on #NuclearWarGames, considers the foreign policy question becoming more urgent by the day.

Ben Affleck’s latest film is based on the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, but in an interview with Cathy Newman the actor and director says there are few Americans with an appetite for war with Iran.

Riot police clash with demonstrators and foreign exchange dealers in Tehran over the collapse of the Iranian currency, which has lost 40 per cent of its value against the dollar in a week.

As Iran’s President Ahmadinejad gives a belligerent speech to the UN, David Cameron tells members their hands are stained with blood because they have failed to stop the atrocities in Syria.

Channel 4 News takes a closer look at the hurdles between Israel and an attack on Iran.

The mounting tension over Iran’s nuclear ambitions could escalate into “a new Cold War”, William Hague has warned.

Amid continued sabre-rattling from Tehran and the west over an EU oil embargo and the free movement of oil ships through the Straits of Hormuz, Channel 4 News looks at the increasing tension.

An Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran, the fourth such attack on nuclear experts in the country in two years. Lindsey Hilsum reports.

Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses where conflicts are most likely to erupt over the next 12 months.