Iran's parliament began questioning President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today over a long list of accusations, including mismanaging the nation's economy and challenging the country's supreme leader.

Iran's supreme leader has urged Iranians to vote in large numbers as the country holds parliamentary elections today, saying a high turnout would send a strong message to the enemies of the nation.

A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander killed in an explosion at an ammunition depot last week was testing an intercontinental missile when the blast happened, his brother was quoted by a government newspaper as saying today.

Iran will file a formal complaint with the UN against the US after President Barack Obama excluded Iran from a pledge not to use nuclear weapons against countries that do not have them, the foreign ministry said today.

In a fresh appeal directly to the Iranian people, US President Barack Obama said in an online video that the US wants more educational and cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the internet to give them a more hopeful future.

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed a new cabinet purged of critics and packed with loyalists and little-known figures today.

State radio says Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has told politicians to be careful in their stances on the country’s post-election unrest, saying that disturbing security is “the biggest vice.”

Iran’s opposition leader received another stern warning today not to encourage his supporters to take to the streets.

Iran’s supreme leader today said Iran’s disputed presidential vote had not been rigged, sternly warning protesters to halt massive demonstrations demanding a new election or be held responsible for creating chaos.

Tens of thousands of black-clad protesters filled the streets of Tehran again today, joining opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed in clashes over Iran’s disputed election.

Supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi are protesting in the capital Tehran for the fourth straight day over the disputed Iran presidential election.

More than 100,000 opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defied an Iranian Interior Ministry ban today and streamed into central Tehran to cheer their pro-reform leader in his first public appearance since elections that he alleges were marred by fraud.

Iran’s state television says the supreme leader has ordered an investigation into claims of fraud in last week’s presidential election.

Iranians began voting today on whether to keep hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power for four more years or replace him with a reformist more open to loosening the country’s Islamic restrictions and improving ties with the US.

Oil prices were back near $60 US a barrel today – fuelling worries that motorists could see a reversal of recent falls in forecourt costs.

A LEADING Iranian newspaper is to hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust in what it calls a test of whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

Iran’s presidential elections seemed almost certain to require a second round as the favourite contender, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, appeared unlikely today to garner the 50% of votes required to avoid a run-off round.

IRAN’S reformist government threatened to resign yesterday as other reformers accused hardliners of treason for disqualifying candidates in next month’s parliamentary elections.