Tehran (AFP) - An Iranian newspaper was told Monday it faces a court hearing over an article which is allegedly offensive to Saudi Arabia's ailing King Abdullah. The king, who is breathing with the help of a tube due to pneumonia, is in hospital in Riyadh, prompting frenzied debate about the future of the oil-rich Gulf state. Iranian newspapers are ...

[caption id="attachment_109458" align="alignright" width="209"] Commander of Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari[/caption] Irans regime has publicly split over the nuclear talks with the 5+1 Powers, three days after the failure to reach a comprehensive agreement. The Revolutionary Guards and hardline factions ...

Irans media were deeply split Tuesday on the merit of extending nuclear talks with the West, with conservative newspapers slamming the move as reformist outlets said progress had been made. Vatan-e-Emrooz, a hardline broadsheet title, headlined its front page Nothing -- and beneath the fold had only empty white space. A year has passed since the ...