A Saudi-owned newspaper based in London reported on Wednesday that six of Osama bin Laden s children have been under house arrest in Iran since they escaped Afghanistan in late 2001. According to an article posted on the English-language Web site of Asharq Al-Awsat, the Saudi newspaper, Mr. Bin Laden s 17-year-old daughter Iman has sought refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Iran after succeeding in escaping Iranian guards watching over her. The newspaper added: Iman disclosed in a telephone call to her brother Abdullah who lives in Syria that she and five of her brothers and sisters have been detained by the Iranian authorities since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan at the end of 2001.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, his grandson said Sunday. He was 87. Nasser Montazeri said his grandfather, who was seen as the spiritual father of Iran's reform movement, died in his sleep overnight

For many months now, American and European intelligence agencies have been trading theories about a spare, two-page document written in Persian that, if genuine, would strongly suggest that scientists in Iran were planning some of the final experiments needed to perfect an atom bomb.

BEIRUT, Lebanon A high-ranking Iranian official said that even if the country agreed to a United Nations-sponsored plan to ship its enriched uranium abroad for further processing, it would not send it all at once, Iranian news media reported Tuesday.

A moderate politician who is considered the strongest challenger to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran accused him on live television on Wednesday of undermining the nation s interest by constantly questioning the Holocaust and by engaging in an adventurist foreign policy. The sharp attacks by the candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, came during a fierce 90-minute debate with Mr. Ahmadinejad that was broadcast throughout Iran. The two candidates clashed repeatedly during the one-on-one debate, with each accusing the other of radicalism and undercutting the country s interest.