Iran is interfering less in Iraq's affairs and is less "agitative" than it was, Iraq's foreign minister has said, days after a Pentagon report said Iran was still a threat to Iraqi stability.
The United States has signed an agreement to cooperate in developing a civilian nuclear energy program in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). But critics are concerned that the agreement could lead to a nuclear-energy race in the Middle East amid growing concern over Iran’s nuclear activities.
Pejman Akbarzadeh, an Iranian pianist, writer, and journalist based in Amsterdam, has produced a documentary about the life and work of Hayedeh, one of Iran's most loved and iconic singers, who died in exile in 1990.
An Iranian oil official says Tehran wants to invest $1.7 billion to help develop the second phase of Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz natural-gas field, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
Iran has resumed deporting Afghan refugees despite pledging to stop doing so, a ministry spokesman says.
Iran's president has said U.S. President-elect Barack Obama must take a different approach in a row over the Islamic state's nuclear program.
At least five members of the Baha'i faith have been arrested in Iran, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, in a stinging rebuke to Arab leaders, has said some of them were standing back in silence and even supporting Israeli attacks on Gaza.
International rights groups say they have learned from "reliable sources" that Kamiar and Arash Alaei -- the Iranian brothers who are internationallly known for their HIV/AIDS prevention work -- are among the four Iranian citizens cited by the authorities on January 13 as having attempted to overthrow the government.
During yesterday's confirmation hearing for Hillary Clinton in Washington, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida said he believes a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran in 2007 is being held in a secret prison there.
Israeli warships have ordered an Iranian vessel carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza to leave the area, an Iranian aid official was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars News Agency.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's choice for secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, gave an articulate accounting of the incoming administration's foreign-policy goals in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which must decide whether to recommend that her appointment be confirmed by the full Senate.
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