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An Iranian woman set to be stoned to death for adultery is facing 99 lashes for a photograph allegedly of her without a headscarf, her son has said.

I was meant to speak on BBC Sunday Live's debate today on whether it was right to condemn the regime for Sakineh's stoning. In the live debate, they managed to interview Suhaib Hassan from the Islamic Sharia Council defending stoning and someone from Tehran saying she faces execution for murdering her husband but somehow there was no time in the debate for me. Even the presenter said stonings were...

The Vatican says it could appeal diplomatically to Iran to spare the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.

The Vatican says it could appeal diplomatically to Iran to spare the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery now faces being whipped for indecency, her son says.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery now faces being whipped for indecency, her son says.

Ankara: US President Barack Obama's top military adviser, Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, urged Turkey to help ensure Iran doesn't gain the capacity to make atomic weapons and to extend the period of its commands in Afghanistan. "The mutual goal of Iran not achieving a nuclear-weapons capability, that we completely agree on, we jUSt need to reinforce," Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...

In ancient Persia, which is now Iran, there lived at the beginning of the third century a prophet by the name of Mani. He developed an exhaustive cosmology which saw the world as caught up in a struggle between a good spiritual realm of light, and an evil material force of darkness. It's a world view whose influence has never quite been vanquished, as our former prime minister Tony Blair demonstrates....

The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.

The US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, urged Turkey on Saturday to help ensure Iran doesn't gain the capacity to make atomic weapons, reports say "The mutual goal of Iran not achieving a nuclear-weapons capability, that we completely agree on, we jUSt need to reinforce," said Mullen. Both countries need to "do all we can to make sure that doesn't happen."...

Ankara: US President Barack Obama's top military adviser, Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, urged Turkey to help ensure Iran doesn't gain the capacity to make atomic weapons and to extend the period of its commands in Afghanistan. "The mutual goal of Iran not achieving a nuclear-weapons capability, that we completely agree on, we jUSt need to reinforce," Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told...

The US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, urged Turkey on Saturday to help ensure Iran doesn't gain the capacity to make atomic weapons, reports say "The mutual goal of Iran not achieving a nuclear-weapons capability, that we completely agree on, we jUSt need to reinforce," said Mullen. Both countries need to "do all we can to make sure that doesn't happen." Turkey having one...

Iran on Monday test-fired its long-range Shahab-3 missile which it says could hit targets in arch-foe Israel, as the Revolutionary Guards staged missile war games for the second straight day. The exercise comes at a time of heightened tension with the West after the UN nuclear watchdog revealed on Friday that the Islamic republic was building a second uranium enrichment plant. The Guards on Sunday...