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DUBAI/VIENNA - Iran says it will resume expert talks with six world powers in Geneva on Thursday about how to implement a landmark nuclear agreement, a week after Tehran broke off the discussions in anger at a US sanctions move.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is host to the second largest refugee population in the world, hosting over 890,000 registered Afghan and Iraqi refugees.

Iran sent a monkey into orbit and returned him safely to earth. To be sure, it's easy to look and laugh, "You're 50 years behind us."

"Black swans" are the unlikely and unforeseen events that change the world. Mathematical probability cannot predict them and conventional wisdom is blind to them, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb, wrote six years ago when he coined the term.

A string of major regional developments over the past two years has left the Islamist Hamas government in Gaza in dire straits and opened up new opportunities for Israel and Palestinian moderates.

TEHRAN Iran Mercantile Exchange has joined the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges as a full member, the Mehr News Agency reported on Tuesday.

When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005 called for Israel to be wiped off the face of the earth, an uproar ensued.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that despite hitting a "snag" in nuclear negotiations last week, Iran is committed "100 percent" to reaching a comprehensive final agreement.

TEHRAN, Iran - A top adviser to Iran's supreme leader says Tehran is ready for a final nuclear deal with the world powers over its disputed atomic program.

In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, a worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran.

Prosecutors say a senior Navy criminal investigator downloaded more than 100 confidential files for an Asian defense contractor at the center of a multimillion-dollar fraud investigation.

Dawud Salahuddin, an American fugitive in Iran, says he and Robert Levinson were detained together during a meeting on Iranian island.

David Cohen's defense of the Joint Plan of Action with Iran is like those who praised the Munich Pact of 1938 because Hitler solemnly declared that after annexing the Sudetenland, Germany had no further territorial claims on Czechoslovakia.

The Department of Defense said in a statement the phone call was meant to continue the two ministers' close consultations on shared regional security challenges and the strong defense cooperation between the United States and Israel.

ANKARA: Iran is seeking a bigger share in Turkey's energy market as the two countries work toward preferential trade agreements, Iranian Ambassador to Turkey Ali Reza Bikdeli said in an interview in Ankara Monday.

"The talk about the impact of lifting the sanctions after the recent nuclear deal is very premature, because the pertinent laws need special decrees to be passed," Less than a month after Iran and the P5+1 countries reached a deal over the latter's nuclear program, the Iranian people and many international stakeholders are still waiting for ... (more)

Any hour of TV that features the public execution of one of its main characters is going to be pretty emotional.

Senator John McCain told CBS's Bob Schlieffer that he thinks the U.S. should impose more sanctions on Iran if a deal between the U.S. and Iran is not reached within six months.

A photograph of missing retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in 2007 on the Iranian island of Kish.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency will invest $2 million in three projects, which are aimed for reviving of the Anzali lagoon, head of the Gilan Province Environment Protection Organization, Amir Abdous said, IRNA news agency reported on Dec. 16. "The second phase of the Anzali lagoon ecological management project focuses on the three ... (more)