IRAN’S most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who emerged as the spiritual father of its reform movement, died yesterday.

HERE are some views on foreign policy issues expressed by Clinton, wife of former President Bill Clinton.

IRAN said yesterday an international conference in Baghdad, where it held direct talks with the US for the first time in four years, was a constructive “first step” toward restoring stability to the neighbouring country.

IRAN’S supreme leader and its president said yesterday that Tehran would not abandon its nuclear programme and rejected its referral to the UN Security Council as unjust.