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US officials said Thurday that the US would investigate allegations that Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was among the revolutionary students responsible for taking American embassy staff in Tehran hostage in 1979 and holding them for 444 days...

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , the relatively-moderate cleric and former president of Iran who lost Friday's run-off election to hardline conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , contended Saturday that there had been...

An official with Iran's Guardian Council said early Saturday local time that hardline Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had a commanding lead over former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the...

Iran state television announced Friday that the Iranian Interior Ministry would extend the polling hours of the country's second presidential runoff election for the fifth time. The voting started at 9 AM local time and was scheduled to end...

Iran's official news agency reported on Thursday that at least 26 people, including a military figure, have been arrested for suspected election violations commited during last week's first round of presidential voting. The close voting required a partial recount...

A partial recount of votes in last Friday's Iran presidential election was ordered by Iranian electoral authorities Monday after reformist candidates accused military organizations of rigging the first round of voting . The close first election resulted in...

Two reformist newspapers in Iran have been banned after publishing a letter from defeated opposition candidate Mehdi Karoubi claiming the first round of presidential elections was rigged . The Aftab Daily and the Eghbal...

The Iranian Judiciary detained a number of people on suspicion of election violations Saturday, a day after Iran's presidential election and six days before the top two candidates face each other in a runoff vote. President Bush...

New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch said Sunday that the presidential election in Iran set for Friday cannot be free and fair because the country's unelected religious authority has approved a narrow list of candidates. A...

Upon reconsidering its former ban on reformist candidates, Iran's Guardian Council has now officially reinstated former higher education minister Mostafa Moin and incumbent Vice President Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh as candidates in the...