A Tehran court has jailed a number of people accused of involvement in a U.S.-sponsored plot to overthrow Iran's Islamic system of government, a semi-official news agency has said.
The ongoing dispute between Russia and Ukraine over natural-gas shipments to Europe has left the European Union eager to re-examine its options for fuel supplies. One alternative is the Nabucco pipeline, which would ship Central Asian gas directly to Europe and circumvent Russia altogether. Reinhard Mitschek is the managing director of the Nabucco pipeline. He spoke with RFE/RL about the future of Nabucco.
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.
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