Jon Snow
Dr Hassan Rouhani looking set to win the Iranian presidential election
It is hard to be sure, but Dr Hassan Rouhani looks set to win the Iranian presidential election.
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Iran election: Rouhani hails victory against ‘extremism’
Iran’s newly elected president, the moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani, has hailed his win was a victory of moderation against extremism.
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Jon Snow
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Rouhani claims victory in Iranian presidential election
Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani has claimed an outright victory in Iran’s presidential election, the country’s interior minister announces.
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Jon Snow
Eyes of the world on Iran as polls open
As Iranians head to the polls to choose their next president, Jon Snow – the only British journalist Tehran -asks if this could be a moment for radical change.
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Iran archive: Ahmadinejad’s 2005 election
After a first round of voting, the 2005 battle for the Iranian presidency came down to two contenders: former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran’s hard-line mayor.
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Will Iran’s election simply be a two horse race?
As Iran goes to the polls on Friday, the country’s tightly controlled campaign seems to centre on a race between a conservative and a claimed “reformer” – but will the winner really make a difference?
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Is Syria’s civil war an all-out religious battle?
With Syria’s civil war seen by many as a Sunni-Shia conflict, Jon Snow travels to the holy city of Qom in Iran to find out what part religious rivalry plays in Syria’s ever-worsening conflict.
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Iran support for Syria is more politics than religion -video
Iran’s support of Syria in its civil war is not about the common Shia religious belief, but more about politics – with Iranians blaming the west for backing the rebel “terrorists” fighting Assad.
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Jon Snow
Trying to understand the stand-off with Iran
With few foreign journalists now based in Iran, the lack of information coming out has helped the western powers to demonise the government and the country itself.
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Jon Snow
Return to a sombre, less vibrant Iran
On the surface, Tehran thrives. But the atmosphere in the run-up to the presidential elections is more sombre as Iran remains in a stalemate with the west over its nuclear programme.
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Iran elections: should we expect another Ahmadinejad?
With controversial Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad forced to step down after eight years of power, will his successor take Iran in a new direction, or can the country expect more of the same?
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Iran elections: Conservative Haddad-Adel drops out
Gholam-Ali HaddadAdel, a relative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, drops out of the presidential race and asks his followers to vote for his hardline conservative colleagues.
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Will Iran’s elections bring democracy?
Jon Snow reports from Tehran, where Friday’s presidential elections will bring a new leader, but little hope of the radical reform campaigners want.
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Syria: Israel airstrikes a ‘violation of international law’
Concerns are raised that the stage is being set for foreign military intervention in Syria following a second Israeli airstrike in Syria in two days.
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Alex Thomson
The Boston and Canadian plots: the questions that need answering
Why was the Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev not picked up by the FBI and FSB during his trip to and from Dagestan, despite being firmly on their radar?
