WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran still has a way out of the growing confrontation over its nuclear program, the White House said on Wednesday, but a spokesman would not confirm reports that President Barack Obama wrote to Iranian leaders expressing a readiness to talk. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Iran should engage major powers in discussions about its nuclear work, which the United States ...

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations said closing the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for about a fifth of the world’s oil trade, is an option if his country’s security is endangered.

Iran is facing an extensive and growing international campaign aimed at destabilizing its regime.

Iran's currency, the rial, hit a record low against the dollar on Wednesday, the ISNA news agency reported, based on rates in blackmarket trading that the government has tried to ban.

Iran is threatening to block a key oil tanker route — and brainy marine mammals may be the U.S. military's best hope of stopping Tehran

Iran is facing an extensive and growing international campaign aimed at destabilizing its regime.

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations said closing the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for about a fifth of the world’s oil trade, is an option if his country’s security is endangered.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister warned Arab neighbors on Thursday not to put themselves in a "dangerous position" by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating dispute over Tehran's nuclear activity. Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, used for a third of the world's seaborne oil trade, if pending Western moves to ban Iranian crude exports ...

(Reuters) - Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation said that the country would carry on with its nuclear program, despite the killing on January 11 of a nuclear scientist. The killing was the latest in a series of mysterious incidents involving Iran's nuclear industry and people working in it. Iran says its nuclear program is purely for civilian use but Western powers believe it has military goals. ...

A former Israeli military intelligence chief says Iran has all the components to build a nuclear bomb, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.