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Some 30 women are among the nearly 700 Iranians who registered to run in the election to succeed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the Islamic republic's ruling clerics wiped out their candidacies with one broad stroke.Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a member of the regime's Guardian Council told the semiofficial Mehr news agency the participation of women in an election would go against the country's constitution. He went on to say that not only does the law bar a female from the presidency, it prohibits a woman from appearing on the ballot.The 30 women who registered for the June 14 election are among some 686 individuals who signed up to run. Word that none are eligible angered citizens who were already mistrustful of the nation's electoral process following the hotly disputed 2009 vote in which Ahmadinejad's re-election was protested in every major city in the country."This regime has made the role and only function of women as objects that serve for the enjoyment of men," said Sara, a ...
Iran, in continuing to support the Syrian government's crackdown against protesters, publicly stated that it is sending military personnel from its elite Iranian Rev...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will address the United Nations General Assembly next month in order to condemn Iran.In a statement from his office...
Signs on currency exchange shops in Tehran explained why the doors where temporarily shut: Waiting to see if former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani would seek to ...
When many struggling families in this eastern Iranian city take stock of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's legacy, it's not about the oratory full of bluster ...
Al-Qaida is in decline around the world but is still a leading threat to the United States, the top U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday in an annual report to Co...
Iranians, fed up with the high cost of living, are expressing their anger by refusing to pay their electricity bills, even as summer temperatures in the country reac...
President Obama entered the White House determined to renew diplomacy with Iran . During his campaign, he said he would meet the leaders of Iran "without preconditio...
Israel's military chief said in an interview published Wednesday that Iran will ultimately decide against building a nuclear weapon — putting him at odds with Israel...
Israel's military chief said in an interview published Wednesday that Iran will ultimately decide against building a nuclear weapon -- putting him at odds with Israe...
An emboldened Iran is "now more willing" to launch an attack inside the United States , America's top intelligence official told Congress Tuesday, adding that the gl...
Could Iran 's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be facing the ultimate pink slip? Could his job as president be threatened by a severe rift within the Iranian leadership...
Despite the brutal crackdown by the Assad government, the ongoing protests in Syria have the Iranian leadership worried. The survival of the Syrian dictator, Bashar ...
The loudest voice railing against the Iranian regime from North America is Canada's.The conservative administration of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken a hard...
The man who wants to be the next president of Iran sits in a hotel lobby, steps from his office and thousands of miles away from the country he wants to lead, a dist...
Will strategy work with rogue nation?
A member of Iran's constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, effectively killing the largely symbol...
Hard-line Iranian lawmakers petitioned authorities Tuesday to bar two prominent presidential contenders — a moderate former president and a protege of current Presid...
An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program could trigger a bloody monthlong war on multiple fronts, killing hundreds of Israelis or more, the Israeli Cabinet's civi...
An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program could trigger a bloody monthlong war on multiple fronts, killing hundreds of Israelis or more, the Israeli Cabinet's civi...
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