As the situation inside and outside of Iran grows more worrisome, it is encouraging to see that those concerned about the threat that Tehran poses and about the humanitarian situation involving thousands of Iranian dissidents in Iraq, are coalescing around the need for actions by the world community that would further isolate Iran's rulers.

Ruthless Arab dictators have terrified the people around them to the point of total sycophancy, where praise and subservience to the "dear" leader are...

Staff of the BBC Persian service said that recently, several friends and relatives of employees living in Iran have been arrested, interrogated and detained in a "campaign of intimidation" leading up to the parliamentary elections and amid escalating political tensions between Iran and the United Kingdom.

Continuing bloodshed in Syria, violent protests in Egypt, and a ramping up of tensions between Israel and Iran.

The House of Lords showed it was out of touch with voters' concerns by trying to water down government efforts to slash billions from welfare payments...

This 'issue' is unmerited ethically, scientifically, and has no credible intelligence to support it. But sadly we live in a world where the population are reared on a staple diet of fantasy and BS, and they seem unlikely to stop feeding anytime soon.

Ashraf residents must believe that theirs is a story of betrayal. It was the US, after all, that, after liberating Iraq, promised to protect them if they agreed to disarm. The US is out of Iraq, but the residents are far from safe. A second betrayal is now in the making. For a body such as the United Nations, silence in the face of oppression is nothing short of scandalous.

Hundreds of anti-war protesters gathered in central London today at a demonstration against Western intervention in Iran and Syria. The rally, orga...

Ofcom has revoked the UK licence of the Iranian state controlled channel Press TV. Since 2007 Press TV has been the flagship of Iran's propaganda mission to the West, and now it is gone and that has to be good news for supporters of democracy and human rights everywhere. Enter Geoffrey Alderman.

The recent EU oil embargo against Iran follows the news that Britain, America and France are sending warships through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran had threatened to close in response to growing sanctions.

When Author Joseph Heller wrote Catch-22 half a century ago, little did he know that was adding a new phrase to the dictionary. In the real world, the plight of the 3,400 Iranian dissidents still besieged at Camp Ashraf in Iraq is a Catch-22.

Liam Fox has warned that the current standoff with Iran is "potentially very serious", but believes it's unlikely that Israel will launch an attack on...

William Hague told MPs there was "grave concern" about the actions of the Iranian government as a Conservative MP claimed the country was "the new Sov...