This week marks the 60thanniversary of the killing of three students by Iranian security forces during a peaceful demonstration in Tehran on December 7, 1953. Today thousands of student activists in Iran will gather for Students' Day, as they have every year since this tragic event, to peacefully demonstrate for change in their country. Student activists ...

President Obama and President Hassan Rouhani of Iran both spent time last weekend trying to sell the Iran nuclear deal to skeptics among their constituents.In Mr. Obamas case, that meant addressing pro-Israel supporters at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, a Washington think tank. Mr. Rouhanis speech to a university audience in Tehran was televised ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told university students Saturday that tolerance could resolve the issue of political prisoners, as some of them chanted for opposition leaders under house arrest to be freed. "My government is committed to the promises it has made to the people, but we need to create internal consensus to achieve the objectives," ...

�Iranian president Rouhani and his ministers went to Shahid Beheshti University to commemorate 16 azar, Student Day in Iran.     By Fars News Agency

Speaking on National Student Day on Saturday, President Rouhani has linked Irans economic future to success with the US and other powers in nuclear talks. Addressing students at Tehrans Shahid Beheshti University, Rouhani spoke of a historical day dating to Irans Constitutional Revolution in the early 20th century. He then commented on the present:...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's president has defended an interim nuclear deal reached with world powers last month that eases some sanctions in return for a halt to parts of the Islamic Republic's uranium enrichment program, saying improving the economy is as important as maintaining a peaceful nuclear program. Hassan Rouhani told students in Tehran ...

TEHRAN Irans president, Hassan Rouhani, reiterated his commitment in a key speech Saturday to the unique goals he set for himself when he took office of maintaining the Islamic republics nuclear activities while helping his country emerge from years of international isolation. Nuclear energy is our absolute right, yes, but the right to progress, ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the world powers have come to realize that the regional problems cannot be settled without Tehrans assistance. We have had an influential role in preventing a new war in the region and against Syria, and Iran along with Russia and many other regional states including Lebanon and Iraq, played ...