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In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 file photo, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran.

The National Iranian Petrochemical Organization has made a proposal to Turkey and Egypt to form an international petrochemical association similar to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries with Iran at a D8 meeting in Tehran.

TEHRAN Iran launched the production line for a new domestically manufactured air defense system named the Ninth Herz in a ceremony held in Tehran on Monday ahead of the 31st anniversary of the liberation of Khorramshahr.

Iran executed two men they had convicted of spying for the Unites States and Israel, according to Iran State Radio.

President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr.

TEHRAN Iran supports any action that Turkey takes to protect its unity and solidarity, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said at a press conference in the Iranian consulate in Istanbul on Friday.

When the Economist Intelligence Unit released its most recent Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, the spotlight, as ever, fell on the world's most expensive cities.

When the Economist Intelligence Unit released its most recent Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, the spotlight, as ever, fell on the world's most expensive cities.

Iranians walk in the old bazaar, in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, May 12, 2013. On Saturday former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's made a last minute surprise decision to enter Iran's presidential election process, which now includes more than 680 hopefuls and will culminate June 14 with just a handful of names on the ballot to succeed Mahmoud ... (more)

Etrat Kazemi registers her candidacy for the upcoming presidential election in Tehran, Iran, last week.

TEHRAN Iran expects progress will be made in talks this week with the United Nations' atomic agency, Tehran's nuclear envoy told Reuters on Monday.

TEHRAN Iran has allocated 5.5 trillion rials to oil and gas exploration projects in the current Iranian calendar year, which started on March 21, Hormoz Qalavand the head of exploration at the National Iranian Oil Company announced on Tuesday.

TEHRAN Iran will leave the U.S. behind by the end of the current year to become the world's third largest cement exporter, the Global Cement magazine wrote in its latest edition.

Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, a Canadian citizen and Beach resident of Iranian descent, has been in prison in Tehran, Iran, since 2008.

Iran on Tuesday defended its election as the rotating chair of the world's sole multilateral disarmament forum after the United States announced that its ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament would boycott any meeting led by Tehran.

Angelina Jolie has just revealed that she underwent a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer.

Mohammad Rahro, 91, left, laughs with childhood pal Ali Ameri, 96, at Loving Care Adult Day Care in Gaithersburg on May 8. The pair knew each other growing up in Tehran, Iran, only to reconnect at the center.

In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 photo, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, while his daughter Fatemeh, smiles at second right, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran.

Iran's constitutional watchdog said Sunday it will seek possible charges against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly violating rules by accompanying his chief adviser to the election registry office the previous day.

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