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Talk of the "Grand Bargain" is once again finding its way to theories on the relationship between the United States and Iran, in light of...

VIENNA  - The UN atomic watchdog said Friday that it found traces of higher-grade uranium at a site in Iran, but that Tehran had said it may be down to a technical error, a day after crunch talks in Baghdad. The agency's latest report, seen by AFP, also said that satellite imagery showed "extensive activity" at the Parchin military site, which it said could hamper efforts to probe claims of ...

The Globe's foreign correspondent talks to Affan Chowdhry about his first visit to Tehran since 1988 and how the Islamic nation is changing

Iran’s eagerness to shower money on Lebanon is the latest indication of just how worried Tehran is at the prospect that Syria’s leader could fall.

Speaking after 2 days of discussions between Iran, world powers, Senior US administration official says looming additional sanctions are likely to raise pressure on Tehran to seek an agreement ahead of future talks.

Iran has the “absolute right” to uranium enrichment, Tehran’s chief negotiator at talks in Baghdad with world powers, Saeed Jalili, said on Thursday.

Negotiations between global powers and Iran stretched into a second day, with Tehran demanding greater relief from economic sanctions in order to push forward with another round of diplomacy aimed at curbing its nuclear program.

A stalemate in the latest round of nuclear negotiations with Iran pushed talks into an additional day, with Tehran and six nations agreeing to meet again Thursday.

Tehran threatens to end negotiations in final hours of crunch talks after world powers fail to offer sanctions relief.

THE US and other world powers yesterday pressed Iran to accept a series of immediate restrictions on its nuclear programme, hoping that concessions by Tehran would help defuse western fears that it aims to build an atomic bomb.

Iran traded proposals with six world powers, including the United States, Wednesday in a new round of talks aimed at persuading Tehran to curb its nuclear program and ease concerns it wants to make atomic weapons

The world's leading powers sought to break the deadlock over Iran's nuclear ambitions on Wednesday by challenging Tehran to hand over part of its stockpile of enriched uranium in return for easing the pressure on the country's economy.

Six world powers meet Iran in Baghdad to discuss what steps it should take to build confidence it is not aiming to construct an atomic bomb

Leaders from the United States and five other countries resumed talks with Iran a day after Tehran signaled willingness to allow potentially intrusive inspections of military facilities.

BAGHDAD -- A senior Iranian official says nuclear talks between world powers and Tehran over Iran's atomic program have begun in the Iraqi capital.Negotiators from the U.S. and five other world powers sat down Wednesday with a team of Iranian diplomats to try to hammer out specific goals in the yearslong impasse over Tehran's nuclear program.Read More...More on Iran

British ministers say the deployment of the Royal Navy in the Middle East is just one of the options on their table should war break out between Iran and Israel later this year.

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog director said on Tuesday he expected to sign a deal with Iran soon to unblock an investigation into suspected work on atom bombs, potentially brightening prospects for big-power talks with Tehran to stop a drift toward conflict.

Six world powers to make 'confidence-building' proposal for Tehran to scale down its enrichment programmeWorld powers will test Iran's readiness under pressure of sanctions to scale back its nuclear programme at talks in Baghdad aimed at easing the decade-old standoff. The meeting between Iran and six nations – the US, Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain – is the second since diplomacy r...

The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said he reached a tentative agreement with Tehran that would allow international inspectors access to sites, but the Obama administration voiced skepticism towards the deal.

The United States gave a cool reception on Tuesday to a mooted deal between the IAEA and Iran, saying the agreement marked a "step forward" but stating that Tehran would be judged on its actions.

IRANIAN scientists have inserted a domestically made fuel rod into the core of a research nuclear reactor in Tehran, Iran's official news agency said

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Intent on weakening Iran economically, the Senate on Monday approved tough new penalties on the Tehran regime to thwart its nuclear ambitions....

VIENNA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief held rare talks in Tehran on Monday after voicing hope for a deal to investigate suspected atomic bomb research - a gesture Iran might make to try to get international sanctions relaxed and deflect threats of war.

Shahin Najafi, who has a bounty on his head over song ripping Tehran, is determined to reach out to his fansUN Nuke Chief Positive Ahead of Key Iran Talks

The battleship Iowa, a storied vessel that languished for years in the U.S. Navy's mothball fleet, was scheduled to begin its final journey Sunday, from San Francisco to its permanent home as a museum in the Port of Los Angeles. Four tugboats were set to guide the Iowa, among the biggest U.S. battleships ever built, under the Golden Gate Bridge and out of the San Francisco Bay. One of them, the...

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Friday he will travel to Iran over the weekend on a previously unscheduled visit to try to resolve an impasse over access to Iranian nuclear documents and scientists. Read full article >>

US plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is "fully available", the US ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which suspect it of seeking to develop nuclear arms.

scibri writes "Omid Kokabee, a laser physics graduate student from the University of Texas who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Sunday for allegedly conspiring with foreign countries against Iran. Kokabee was arrested in February 2011 while on a trip home, and charged with 'communicating with a hostile government' (i.e. Israel) and 'ille...

During a telephone conversation between Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, noting their mutual existing capacities, both sides stressed the need for full extension of bilateral relations and increased cooperation between Tehran - New Delhi in various fields.

Tehran has accused Israel and the United States of assassinating four Iranian scientists since 2010 in order to sabotage its nuclear programme.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speeches and interviews during her recent whirlwind, three-day visit to India offer quite a few lessons. Take, for example, her handling of the effort to get India to reduce — if not eliminate — its purchases of crude oil from Iran. The idea, of course, is to strengthen the sanctions against Iran in hopes of preventing Tehran from developing nuclear w...

Notwithstanding U.S. pressure to curtail trade with Iran, India gave a strong signal that it would rather scale up its commercial engagement with Tehran possibly through a bilateral preferential trade pact.

Hillary Clinton urges India to cut imports of Iranian oil as part of sanctions designed to force Tehran to curb development of its nuclear programme.

Actos, the brand name for pioglitazone, boosts the effects of antidepressants in patients whether they have diabetes or not according to a study from Tehran University.

Theoretical physicist Ali Naji from the IPM in Tehran and the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues have shown how small random patches of disordered, frozen electric charges can make a difference when they are scattered on surfaces that are overall neutral.

On February 29th, two days before parliamentary elections in Iran, I joined a few dozen foreign correspondents—along with official handlers—in the parking lot of the Laleh, a formerly five-star Tehran hotel with tatty rooms, an ornate lobby, and a surfeit of eyes. We had come . . . (Subscription required.)

Four months after capturing a crashed U.S. Air Force stealth drone near the Iran-Afghanistan border, Tehran claims it has hacked into the 'bot's classified mission-control system. If true, it could mean Iran is making good on its vow to reverse-engineer the stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone and produce homemade copies. But the claim "sounds like complete bullshit," according to one Pentagon dr...

TEHRAN - Senior Iranian and Pakistani economic officials, in a meeting in Washington on Sunday, explored avenues for the further expansion and development of the two countries’ economic ties and cooperation, reported Fars News Agency (FNA).In their meeting on the sidelines of the 2012 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in Washington, Iranian ...

TEHRAN - Senior Iranian and Pakistani economic officials, in a meeting in Washington on Sunday, explored avenues for the further expansion and development of the two countries’ economic ties and cooperation, reported Fars News Agency (FNA).In their meeting on the sidelines of the 2012 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in Washington, Iranian ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year, including information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed. Iran also said it was building a copy of the drone....

Iraq's prime minister is in Tehran for top level talks, underlining the close ties between governments of the two countries.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's oil minister on Thursday raised the prospect of more cutoffs in oil sales to the European Union if the bloc failed to show some flexibility toward Iran ahead of a second round of nuclear talks next month....

Iran's governing elite have been making noises for years now about the construction of a "Halal Internet," a kind of national intranet with its own email service, microblogging, search tools, etc. Now a leaked Persian-language "Request for Information" from the Research Institute for ICT in Tehran, which consults on technology for Iran's Ministry of ICT [...]

LONDON (Reuters) - Four Iranians gather for a cozy dinner party, cracking jokes in Persian over a traditional meal of saffron rice and stew. It's a tableau that could be straight out of Tehran. But instead it's a scene from a reality television show shot in Europe and broadcast by satellite from studios in southwest London. With light fare like "Befarmaeed Sham," ("Welcome to Dinner" in Persian...

Danny Ayalon is urging the international community to tighten sanctions on Tehran immediately, rather than wait until July as planned

In pursuing a nuclear deal with Tehran, Obama is betting against the future.

Headline Title:  Iran urged to quash prison sentence for ‘Mourning Mothers’ activist 13 April 2012 The Iranian authorities must quash a court ruling sentencing a Tehran woman to four and a half years in prison based on her peaceful human rights activities, Amnesty Internation...

Talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany resume again this weekend, with Tehran giving hints that it may take a more constructive attitude to negotiations than it did during the previous round in 2011. Iranian nuclear officials have suggested that Iran might curtail its 20 percent uranium enrichment program, which would meet almost halfway th...

THE NEGOTIATIONS with Iran due to begin this week in Istanbul may be the last chance for a peaceful settlement on its nuclear program, at least in a negative sense: If Tehran again refuses to make concessions, and continues to press ahead with uranium enrichment at a new underground facility, military action by Israel or the United States may become inevitable. Hardly anyone, however, thinks it...

Israeli official: an Iranian lawmaker's claim that Tehran has the capability to produce atomic weapons shows military threat.

The crew of a Chinese cargo ship seized by pirates off Iran are rescued, China's state media say, citing its embassy in Tehran.

Sources reveal a terrifying situation at the mobile operator company's headquarters in Tehran.

Israeli officials have long expressed deep skepticism about the impact of international sanctions alone in compelling Iran's leadership to abandon what it sees as its pursuit of nuclear weapons. Israel's U.N. ambassador, Ron Prosor, told a group of reporters on Friday at the Israeli mission to the United Nations, that he believes Tehran is as committed as ever to a nuclear weapon. Bu...

Iran is ramping up imports of wheat, including rare purchases from the U.S., in a sign Tehran is building a strategic stockpile of grain in anticipation of harsher sanctions or even military conflict.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Americans would support military action against Iran if there were evidence that Tehran is building nuclear weapons, even if such action led to higher gasoline prices, a Reuters/Ipsos polled showed on Tuesday.

International sanctions on Iran are starting to pinch, and Tehran is scrambling to hang on to buyers for its crude oil exports. In January, China, South Korea and Singapore sharply cut their oil purchases from Iran. Last month, Shipping Corp. of India canceled an Iranian shipment because its European insurers refused to provide coverage for the tanker, according to Lloyd’s List. And Japanese oi...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran hailed the country's first Oscar-winning film as a triumph over arch-foe Israel on Monday after an Academy Award race with its own subplots: Iranian officials giving a grudging nod to cinema and Israeli audiences flocking to see a made-in-Tehran drama....

Israeli newspapers warn daily of the Iranian nuclear threat, but for the past week and a half, Israelis filmgoers have packed movie theatres to watch a drama set in Tehran.

Israel is claiming that Iran is thisclose to developing a missile that can hit American soil. But missile and intelligence experts say Tehran has a long, technically complex road to travel before it can threaten Manhattan. More »

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians faced a second and more extensive disruption of Internet access Monday, just a week after email and social networking sites were blocked, raising concerns about state censorship ahead of parliamentary elections.

The move will have little effect on British firms, which get well under 1 per cent of their oil from Iran. Foreign Secretary William Hague insisted economic sanctions and negotiations had to be given 'a real chance' to convince Tehran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday.

In spite of sanctions by the US and the European Union and Israel linking Tehran to the attack on an Israeli embassy car, India is set to step up its energy and business ties with Iran, with a commerce ministry team set to visit Tehran soon.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The Simpsons are corroding the morals of Iranian youth, an official said on Monday, as dolls based on Bart, Homer and the rest of the American cartoon family joined the shapely Barbie among Western toys targeted by a new crackdown in Tehran.

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India has joined China in saying it will not cut back on oil imports from Iran, despite stiff new U.S. and European sanctions designed to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program.

Iran's President has said on state television that Tehran is ready for talks with world powers about its nuclear drive. 

Oil prices edged up 94 cents to $110.80 a barrel yesterday as the EU imposed its widely-expected embargo on crude exports from Iran, and Tehran reiterated its threat to close the Strait of Hormuz.

TEHRAN - Iran is being paid for oil sales to India through a Turkish bank, the managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company said Friday on Mehr news agency. “There is no problem with exports to India and money continues to be transferred through a Turkish bank,” said Mohsen Ghamsari. That bank, however, has warned Iranian authorities that it will not take on new clients ...

Sorry, Iranian Twilight fans! Sounds like those Breaking Dawn Barbies are gonna be off-limits! Yesterday, shopkeepers in Tehran, Iran announced that "morality police" have been amping up efforts against sales of Barbie dolls in the county. Here's what a toy shop owner in norther Tehran had to say about it: "About three weeks ago they (the morality police) [...]

No global consensus on how to deal with Tehran and its nuclear program, Prime Minister tells CBC in interview

European refiners have started to sever links with Iran, stopping spot purchases of crude ahead of a European Union meeting later this month that could impose a full oil embargo on Tehran.

Gevork Vartanian, a legendary Soviet spy who helped foil a Nazi plot to kill Allied leaders in Tehran in World War II, dies in Moscow aged 87.

Jlloyd Samuel has admitted it was his desire for 'a new challenge' that sparked his decision to join Iranian club Esteghlal in Tehran. He had trials with Leeds and West Ham.

Tehran has responded to Washington’s new pressure to halt its nuclear program by threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, a key gateway for the oil trade

THE SIGNALS coming out of Tehran are as mixed as ever – on the one hand sabre-rattling threats to seal off the Strait of Hormuz, through which a third of the world’s seaborne oil passes, and then, on Saturday, an offer of a new round of talks on its nuclear programme with six world powers.

In “A Separation,” Iran’s candidate for a foreign-language Oscar, a middle-class Tehran couple’s disagreement over where and how to live leads to growing chaos.

Shohreh, a 37-year-old Iranian nurse, sat down with her husband and parents one night in September to watch a documentary about Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, scheduled to be shown on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s BBC Persian channel.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain, which closed its embassy in Tehran last month after it was ransacked by protesters, said on Thursday that Iranian authorities had blocked its website aimed at Iran. The move creates further tension between the two countries that regularly clash over Iran’s nuclear programme. Britain’s Foreign Office said Iranian authorities had barred access to a Foreign Office websi...

Authorities ordered the destruction of a dome in the main square of Tehran because its decoration resembled the Jewish symbol, according to Fars.

Release Time:  For Immediate Release We condemn the Iranian government’s efforts to deny their people the freedom to access America’s recently launched Virtual Embassy Tehran.  Through this action, the Iranian government has once again demonstrated its commitment to build an electronic curtain of surveillance and censorship around...

The US says it is concerned at the the loss of a Sentinel unmanned drone near the border with Iran, which Tehran says it shot down.

Staff ordered to leave Britain after compounds in Tehran ransacked.

In Tehran, the game has been banned as propaganda, and attracted protests from young Iranians for 'stoking tensions' - due largely to a level set in a clearly recognisable area of the Iranian capital.

Prime Minister David Cameron has made a statement following today's storming of the British Embassy in Iran by protestors

The Iranian security forces’ November 21, 2011 raid on the offices of the official Iran newspaper and their attempt to arrest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s media adviser show the Iranian government’s extreme reaction to dissent. The authorities detained about 40 staff members of the Iran daily while attempting to arrest Ali-Akbar Javanf...

The Non-Aligned Movement Center for Human Rights and Cultural Diversity, together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other partners, is organizing a conference on the protection of civilians in contemporary armed conflicts. Government experts, academics, lawyers, Islamic scholars, researchers and representatives of humanitarian organizations will attend the event, whic...

Rebellion takes various forms for the characters in this Iran-set film.Young adults are caught between Old World tradition and personal fulfillment in "Dog Sweat," a multistrand feature set in Tehran and shot there surreptitiously. Whatever personal risks first-time director Hossein Keshavarz took to make the film, there's little sense of danger in the finished product, which offers snapshots o...