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VIENNA: Iran will set a date for a U.N. nuclear inspection of a uranium mine, an Iranian envoy said before talks on Wednesday between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency .

Iran will launch Kavoshgar-7 carrier, carrying a living creature into space from Imam Khomeini Space Centre near Semnan city in the north of the country next week, head of Iran's aerospace industries, Mehdi Farahi said, ISNA news agency reported on Dec. 10. Iran sent its first bio-capsule containing living creatures into the space in February 2010, ... (more)

A draft of an agreement between India, Iran and Afghanistan to develop Iran's Chabahar port - aimed at giving India access to landlocked Afghanistan - is ready and could be signed soon, Afghan ambassador Shaida Abdali said.

The Obama administration and Congress clashed Tuesday over the historic nuclear deal with Iran, exposing deep rifts over a U.S. pledge to refrain from any new sanctions over the next six months in exchange for concessions on enriching uranium.

TEHRAN Iran is scheduled to send a new rocket into space next week as a precursor to human spaceflight in the future, an Iranian aerospace official said on Tuesday.

That the Middle East's two Islamic "superpowers" are competitors for the religious leadership of the Muslim world is well recognized.

Dick Cheney appeared on Fox and Friends Monday bellyaching about the deal the U.S. and five other nations have made with Iran over its nuclear program.

TEHRAN Iran is scheduled to send a delegation to South Africa to attend the memorial service for liberation struggle icon Nelson Mandela on Tuesday.

The Alabama state Supreme Court has upheld a jury's decision to award an Iranian-born businessman $7.5 million in a 2011 defamation lawsuit.

IRAN: UN inspectors on Sunday visited the Arak heavy water production plant, a controversial part of Iran's nuclear program.

The interim deal reached in Geneva last month between Iran and six world powers has drastically reduced the likelihood of military intervention to thwart the rogue Iranian nuclear program, Israel's former national security adviser said Monday.

Defense Minister says Iranians have built a terror infrastructure in South America, designed to target Jews, Israelis; warns that Tehran's ambitions for hegemony in the world make it doubly important to prevent a nuclear Iran.

The Arab Spring's promise of democracy has succumbed to frostbite, says former Iranian Ambassador to the U.N. Mansour Farhang.

President Shimon Peres expressed willingness to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Sunday, at the opening session of the Globes 2013 Israel Business Conference.

TEHRAN, Iran Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that last month's nuclear deal with world powers has already boosted the country's economy, as he continues a push to convince skeptics of the benefits brought by the pact's partial sanctions relief.

Iranian and Afghan presidents are to sign a comprehensive pact of friendship and cooperation between Tehran and Kabul in order to bolster mutual ties, IRNA reported.

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After President Barack Obama said he would accept a peaceful nuclear program from Iran, including modest uranium enrichment, U.S. congressmen on the Homeland Security and Intelligence committees agreed Sunday that the concession complicates further negotiations.

When Mohammad Hamedi Rad arrived in the United States last year, he carried his Iranian passport, a hard-won student visa and a backpack containing $14,000 in hundred dollar bills, because there was no simpler way of getting money into the country.

Atomic experts from the United Nations nuclear watchdog were at Iran's Arak heavy water plant on Sunday to inspect it for the first time in more than two years, Iranian media reported.