From banking to foxhunting, the former prime minister gives his views on his choices when in powerOn the banks crisis
‘The biggest danger was a view that people would want the state to come back into fashion – I didn’t think that’On the third way
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Iran’s Kurdish insurgency brings troop mobilisation along borders with Iraq and Turkey
After driving for two hours along the rocky road that winds up into Mount Qandil in northern Iraq, our vehicle stopped. Five Kurds in combat gear with rifles emerged…
Cartoonist Phil Disley looks at Iran’s nuclear activities
Iranian and Russian engineers and officials attend a ceremony to celebrate the loading of fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant
The Iranian news agency Fars has released footage of mass graves it says have been dug for US soldiers by the country’s Revolutionary Guard in case of a war
Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says media sensation and front-cover star Paul the octopus – as if he needs an introduction – spreads “western propaganda and superstition”, according to the Daily Mail. He said that Paul represents decadence and …
British PM makes speech in Ankara attacking EU partners for expecting Turkey to guard Europe’s borders as a Nato member while closing the door to EU membership
David Cameron today challenged France and Germany over their opposition to Turkish membersh…
Shon Meckfessel discusses how three of his friends – all US citizens – were taken prisoner by Iranian officials while hiking in Iraq near the border of IranIan Black
Shahram Amiri returns to Tehran from the US where he claims he was interrogated by CIA agents after being kidnapped in Saudi Arabia
Iranian family say adultery conviction was bogus and that woman has already been subjected to 99 lashes
A 43-year-old Iranian woman is facing death by stoning unless an international campaign launched by her children forces the authorities to quash wha…
• A report said that waste containing radioactive elements unearthed at east London’s Olympic Games site had – with the Environment Agency’s agreement, and after being tempered by being mixed with lower-level waste – been re-buried “under, or c…
President tells crowd that Tehran would consider discussions only after west was punished for voting for UN sanctions
Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hinted today that he may be ready to resume nuclear talks – but only after the west had been …
کشف تحقیق استغرق لاکثر من شهرین قام به قسم الجاردیان
للافلام الوثائقیة ومکتب الصحافة الاستقصائیة ان المئات من
اعضاء الحرس الثوری الایرا…
A two-month investigation by Guardian Films and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals how hundreds of members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are defecting – in protest at what they see as a ‘betrayal’ by the Iranian governmentMaggie O’KaneMona …
