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BBC has been warned by Foreign Office that cuts could force pullout from several countries The BBC is locked in talks with the government over drastic cuts to the World Service budget which could force it to withdraw from Burma and several other countries. The Foreign Office, which funds the World Service through an annual £272m grant, has told executives to prepare for a possible budget cut of ...

The Iranian president raised eyebrows when he used a crude expression, but the Iranian leader has been known to use colorful language.

A satellite TV station broadcasting from Dubai is now so popular in Iran that it has the authorities seriously worried, even though its content is entertainment, not politics. Farsi1 , which has been on the airwaves for just over one year, is now much part of the social fabric that the shows it airs are popular all across Iran, even in the remotest villages. -Sahar Namazikhah, IWPR

I have asked that we should meet here early today, before our sun becomes too hot. This stairway, to which I never imagined I would return, retains indelible memories of the years when I began to have an awareness of our era and of our duty.

Since the victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 which toppled the U.S.-backed regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran has been facing with devastating and agonizing financial sanctions of the United States and its European allies who didn't favor the post-revolutionary Iran's doctrine of confrontation with the superpowers and its denial of Western liberal democratic values.

The arrest and trial of human rights activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari is part of an ongoing narrative.

Farsi1 television is pure entertainment, drawing millions of Iranian viewers, but officials are not amused.

TEHRAN— S ince the victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 which toppled the U.S.-backed regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran has been faced with devastating and agonizing financial sanctions of the United States and its European allies who didn't favor the post-revolutionary Iran's doctrine of confrontation with the superpowers and its denial of Western liberal democratic values.

La Demajagua Newspapers. (Stenographic versions - Council of State) My dear comrades: I asked that we meet early, before the heat of our sun becomes too intense.

Ebrahim Nabavi, one of the channel's organizers, said their aim is to break the state-controlled broadcasters' monopoly on the flow of information, fight against censorship in Iran, reflect the views of all Iranian people, and frankly discuss all issues related to Iran. -RFE