Hassan Rowhani

• Iran president pledges nuclear plan, sincerity

  President Hassan Rowhani said on Friday that Iran would present a plan next month to resolve concerns over its nuclear program and vowed never to deviate from promises to the West.

• Iran takes charm offensive to UN, agrees to nuclear talks

  Iran's new government took its diplomatic charm offensive to the United Nations on Monday and agreed to new talks on its nuclear program with top diplomats from six world powers, including US Secretary of State John Kerry.

• Chemical watchdog examines Syria weapons details

  The world's chemical weapons watchdog has begun on Saturday to examine details of Syria's chemical arsenal supplied by the regime, as rebels agreed a truce with jihadists in a key border town.

• To meet, or not to meet: Obama and Rowhani mull a gamble

  After a flurry of diplomatic smoke signals, Iran and the United States are sizing up the gamble of a presidential close encounter at the UN next week that could open a first crack in 30 years of enmity.

• Iran's President Hassan Rowhani talks tough on nuclear rights

  Iran's new President Hassan Rowhani said that Tehran will not give up "one iota" of its nuclear rights, echoing his hardline predecessor, after the UN atomic watchdog urged improved cooperation.

• Iran foreign minister to hold nuclear talks with world leaders

  Iranian President Hassan Rowhani has tasked the foreign ministry with handling the country's sensitive nuclear talks, his website said on Thursday, in a possible signal of a less confrontational approach with world powers.

• Iran to name its first ever female ambassador

  Iran plans to appoint a woman ambassador and a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry for the first time in the Islamic republic's history, Iranian media reports today.

• New Iran president demands slogan-free diplomacy

  Iran's new President Hassan Rowhani called Saturday for a foreign policy free of damaging sloganeering as Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took office.

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gets post-presidency seat in top Iran council

  Iran's supreme leader today appointed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Expediency Council, the country's top political arbitration body headed by an avid critic of the outgoing president.

• Iran President Hassan Rowhani takes oath of office: TV

  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took the oath of office before parliament in Tehran on Sunday and was expected later in the day to name a cabinet he said would be chosen from figures across the political spectrum.

• Saudi blocked Iran-bound Bashir from airspace: Sudan

  Saudi Arabia denied permission for a plane carrying Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to travel through its airpace on Sunday for the swearing-in of the new Iranian president, Khartoum said.

• Iran's new president Hassan Rowhani takes oath on vowing to rescue economy

  Iran's new President Hassan Rowhani was set to take the oath before parliament on Sunday a day after taking office with a promise to work to ease crippling Western sanctions.

• Hassan Rowhani officially takes office as Iran president

  Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani assumed the presidency on Saturday after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei officially endorsed him, hailing his services to the Islamic establishment.

• Iran's Hassan Rowhani set to become country's seventh president

  Mid-ranking cleric Hassan Rowhani meets Iran's supreme leader today to be endorsed as the country's seventh president a day after making controversial comments about the Islamic republic's arch-foe Israel.

• Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warns Israel will be 'uprooted'

  Iran's outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned arch-foe Israel today in one of his last public speeches that a regional storm was brewing that would "uproot" the Jewish state.