Iran has hanged a man who was sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of a nuclear physicist, state TV reported Tuesday.

A $100,000 bounty has been placed on the head of an Iranian rapper after a Shiite website offered a reward for anyone who kills him over a song that satirizes the Islamic Republic, Reuters reports.

U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday he was plowing ahead with potential sanctions against countries that keep buying oil from Iran, including allies of the United States, in a deepening campaign to starve Iran of money for its disputed nuclear program.

US President Barack Obama issued stern warnings to Iran and North Korea on Monday as he vowed to pursue further strategic nuclear arms reductions with Russia.

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ANKARA, Turkey - An earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Wednesday night, killing at least three people and leaving dozens trapped in the rubble of toppled buildings damaged in a previous temblor, which had killed 600 people.

AMMAN (Reuters) - Western powers would cause an "earthquake" in the Middle East if they intervened in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Sunday, after protesters demanded outside protection from a crackdown that has killed 3,000 people.

The Arab League has sent an "urgent message" to the Syrian government, denouncing "the continued killings of civilians" taking part in protests.

Washington (CNN) -- U.S. agents disrupted an Iranian assassination-for-hire scheme targeting Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, U.S. officials said Tuesday.  

The US says it has broken up a plot by agents linked to Iran to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington using explosives.

NEW YORK — As hundreds of people protested the appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday,

ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan -- Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan are considering creating a buffer zone along their porous border to stop Kurdish rebels from attacking the Islamic Republic, Nazim Dabbagh, the Kurdistan Region’s representative in Tehran, told Rudaw.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's prediction that pair could be freed in days is not authoritative, suggest court officials

Two Americans jailed for spying in Iran will be released in two days, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told US media.

Tony Blair says: 'Regime change in Tehran would immediately make me significantly more optimistic about the whole of the region'