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Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namadar says the assets of jailed tycoon Babak Zanjani will only cover 40 percent of his debts to the ministry.

TEHRAN The European Court of Justice has annulled sanctions imposed by the European Union against Iran's Moallem Insurance Company, the company's managing director Mohammad-Hossein Tahsiri, said on Saturday.

Two of the men were sentenced to 74 lashes and three years in prison for stealing from houses and shops.

NCR I - The Saudi police is holding an Iranian cleric in city of Medina for making provoking remarks.

The grandchild of Bibi Haazer Omidvari says that gallery goers were impressed by the exhibition which was held by his 88-year-old doll maker grandmother at the Iranian Artists Forum .

South Korea plans to launch production plants in Iran to manufacture various products, including cars and home appliances, South Korean Ambassador to Tehran Sung Wung Yeub said on Thursday.

July 20 is drop-dead day for negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. On Jan. 20, diplomats gave themselves six months to reach an agreement to bring Iran into compliance with the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty .

Members of Hamas' armed wing, attend a funeral in the town of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on June 30. In a reminder of the Middle East's intertwined nature, the latest violence between Israel and Hamas has U.S. and Israeli officials lamenting the role of a key actor hundreds of miles east of Gaza: Iran.

An Azar Yazdi Award is on display after the unveiling ceremony in Tehran on July 9, 2014.

An explosion in a red granite mine in Northeastern Ardakan has killed two miners and injured three others.

Is Obama's State Department crazy, or just plain stupid? Last Sunday, US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski met with senior members of the Al-Wefaq group, Bahrain's leading opposition movement to the constitutional monarchy of King Al-Khalifa.

Persepolis Or Persepolis in the northeast of Shiraz is the name of one of the ancient cities of Iran which continued through the years, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire of Time magnificent ceremonial monarchy in Iran 's.

An Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv on July 9, 2014.

Uranium enrichment is the stickiest sticking point in the nuclear negotiations with Iran now underway in Vienna .

It's been a good week for evil. It started with a phrase in a New York Times story this past Sunday that has stuck in my head.

TEHRAN The London-based Iranian publisher Candle and Fog invited three Iranian authors to promote English versions of their books at the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair, which will be held in Germany from October 8 to 12. "Democracy or DemoCrazy" by Seyyed Mehdi Shojaei, "The Big Clay Jar" by Hushang Moradi Kermani and "Redfish" by actress-turned-author ... (more)

Significant differences remain between the six world powers and the Iranian regime in negotiations over Tehran's nuclear programme, British Foreign Minister William Hague told an Austrian newspaper.

TEHRAN The secretary of the High Council for Cultural Revolution has said that reference to papers written by Iranian scientists has quadrupled and this shows the scientific capability of the country, IRNA reported on Wednesday.

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German lender Commerzbank AG is expected to pay between $600 million and $800 million to resolve investigations into its dealings with Iran and other countries under U.S. sanctions, sources familiar with the matter said.