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Sepehr Rajaei and Ata Leysi fell in love and wanted to build a life together. But they're Iranian and homosexual acts are punishable by death in Islamic Republic of Iran.

Misperceptions often rule international politics. Nation-states foster narratives about themselves and their rivals, and those narratives gain a life of their own.

A visit to explore the potential for a new relationship between Iran and Europe has also ended up highlighting the enduring sensitivity of the old.

A new report by the World Justice Project indicates Iran's ranking at 82 among 99 countries measured for what citizens think of their justice system.

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, right, welcomes European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton for their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 9, 2014.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, left, poses with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov for photographers during a news conference after their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014.

Hamas announced renewed diplomatic relations with Iran on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after Israel broadcasted the list of contents of the Islamic Republic's weapons shipment to Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed some understandable frustration yesterday about the international press' lack of interest in last week's capture of the Iranian arms ship Klos-C.

A miscellaneous assortment of films is scheduled to premiere at Iranian theaters for the Iranian New Year celebration, Noruz, which will begin this year on March 21. "The Ascendants", war drama directed by Masud Dehnamaki, and "Che", Ebrahaim Hatamikia's drama on Iranian war hero Mostafa Chamran are among the films.

TEHRAN Iran is ready to transit natural gas from Turkmenistan to the Persian Gulf Arab states, the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company announced on Tuesday.

A man claiming to be the friend of two Iranians who used fake passports to board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight told ABC News that the men stayed at his home the night before the flight vanished.

Iran's deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces Brig.-Gen. Massoud Jazayeri dismissed media reports on Sunday that Israel seized an Iranian ship smuggling weapons.

Word from Tehran is that veteran Iranian diplomat Hamid Aboutalebi, formerly that country's emissary to Italy, to Australia and now to the United Nations, can't seem to get his U.S. visa.

Shoulder to shoulder, cheek to cheek, young women and men sit next to each other while a thick film of cigarette smoke fills the dimly lit cafe in central Tehran.

Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, December 22, 1988.

The two men travelling on stolen passports on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that mysteriously disappeared on Saturday have been identified as Iranian nationals.

Although there has been a considerable amount of reports, media coverage and scholarly debates about the marginalization, discrimination and persecution of minorities such as the Baha'i community in the Islamic Republic of Iran, one of the less discussed minority groups that has received scant attention is the Arab ethnic group living in the ... (more)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the world not to be deceived by Iran's "phony smiles" as the military displayed dozens of rockets and mortars it says were seized from a ship the Iranians dispatched to Gaza Strip militants.

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press The chaos at the University of Massachusetts over the weekend during a pre-St.

Prospective B.C. Lions Felions auditioned Sunday at Scotiabank Dance Centre in Vancouver.