LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- An Iranian national has been sentenced to 23 months in federal prison and an American who worked as an airline pilot received a 46-month sentence for their roles in a plot to ...

In a decree on Sunday Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi appointed Hamid Reza Asefi as deputy minister for parliamentary and consular affairs with retaining his current post as the foreign ...

Mohammed Yusef Asefi uses a big yellow sponge to rub vigorously at a painting of a mountain ravine in Kabul's National Gallery of Art, and an extraordinary change takes place. As the sponge passes ...

TEHRAN (IRNA) -- Iran on Sunday said that the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz would be the best route for the transfer of goods and energy. Addressing domestic and foreign reporters at his ...

TEHRAN (IRNA) -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi here on Tuesday called on the five UN permanent members not to make hasty decisions and to adopt wise measures on the Iranian nuclear issue ...