Iran

Shahla Jahed has been executed this morning in Iran after being convicted of murdering a former football star’s wife.

The mistress of a football star in Iran could be executed on Wednesday morning. An International Human Rights group has told Channel 4 News there are doubts about whether she had a fair trial.

A former British ambassador tells Channel 4 News that the west would be better to accept a nuclear Iran than bomb it. Sir Richard Dalton says Tehran will seek to claim the moral high ground.

An Iranian scientist who was killed in a bomb explosion in Tehran today was on an Iranian UNESCO team, Channel 4 News has learned.

Wikileaks diplomatic cable disclosures suggest that Iran has been on a global mission to acquire weapons including Russian-made parts from a Chinese company, Channel 4 News can reveal.

A TV confession by Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who faces death by stoning in Iran, has been criticised by human rights groups. There is also concern that another one of her lawyers has been arrested.

Iran says four terrorists with links to Britain have been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a number of assassination plots. The UK government tells Channel 4 News the claims are “baseless”.

As a new film is released about a woman stoned to death in Iran, its director tells Channel 4 News why he hopes it becomes a call to action to help Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon is calculated to emphasise his country’s influence in the region – and much more – writes Lindsey Hilsum.

Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tour of southern Lebanon is as troubling for some Arab countries as it is for Israel, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.

Our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, says that – while the world is interested in worms burrowing into the computers controlling nuclear plants – the plight of the poor in the coming winter is top of the political agenda inside Iran.

Lindsey Hilsum writes on the why the Islamic Republic of Iran is so important not only to the Middle East but to the world.

As Iranian President Ahmadinejad dodges questions about the remaining US hikers held in Tehran, Lindsey Hilsum asks if he can deflect attention from the opposition movement within his own regime?

An American woman detained in Iran for more than a year after being arrested on the Iraq border accused of spying, is expected to fly home on $500,000 (£325,000) bail due to health problems.