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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.

US President Barack Obama addressed the Iranian nuclear and Palestinian issues in terms sympathetic to the Israeli case at the Saban annual forum in Washington Saturday, Dec. 7. On the final accord with Iran, he spoke of constraints for making sure Iran was prevented from attaining a nuclear weapon.

In a pair of columns, George Will tackles the issues surrounding the deal reaches between the United States, the other "P5+1" powers, and the Islamic Republic of Iran over that nations development of a nuclear program and the international efforts to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, or the capability of developing nuclear weapons.

Raised in Tehran, Goli Taraghi attended university in the U.S. and, during the Iranian Revolution, moved to Paris, where she lives today.

TEHRAN Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani held a meeting with Sultan Qaboos Bin Said of Oman at Bait Al Barakah near Muscat on Thursday, Oman News Agency reported.

Iranian President Hassan Rohani made an urgent call at his latest cabinet meeting for action plans to tackle the problem of air pollution across the country.

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, center, shakes hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in their meeting, as Iranian Vice President Eshagh Jahangiri looks on in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013.

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 7 By Temkin Jafarov, Saeed Isayev - Trend: Two IAEA inspectors have arrived in Iran to observe the work of country's Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor, ISNA news agency reported on Dec. 7. The IAEA officials have arrived in Iran within the framework of an earlier agreement between Iran and the IAEA.

The Iranian warships - destroyer Alborz, helicopter-carrying tanker Bandar Abbas and a Russian-origin Kilo-class submarine Younes - entered the Mumbai harbor on Thursday as part of the three-day visit, Times of India reported.

Motamednejad, a professor of social sciences at Tehran's Allameh Tabatabaei University, had suffered from Parkinson's disease for years, Persian media announced on Thursday evening.

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VIENNA/BRUSSELS: Iran and six world powers plan expert-level talks next week to work out details of implementing a breakthrough agreement for Tehran to curb its disputed nuclear programme in return for a limited easing of sanctions.

The US is entering the new nuclear pact with Iran "very clear eyed" and it remains to be seen whether Tehran is serious about keeping its nuclear development peaceful, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday while on a confidence-building trip in the Persian Gulf.

An earthquake measuring 3.7 points on the Richter scale hit the Iranian southern province of Fars, IRNA news agency reported on Dec 6. The earthquake occurred today at 11:13 local time, according to a report from the Seismological Centre of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University.

As the House of Representatives re-convened this week following its Thanksgiving break, it is clear that members of both parties are headed for a major showdown with the White House over the recent agreement between Iran and the leading world powers.

Men ride a motorbike as pedestrians walk past buildings damaged by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria December 4, 2013.

December 5, 2013 Number 12/13 #01 This Update deals with some new revelations about potential delays and other problems with implementing the Geneva interim agreement with Iran reached the Sunday before last - with a US spokesperson acknowledging last week that the agreement is not yet in effect for either party and will not be until further ... (more)

Iran's Morality Police have arrested popular rapper Amir Tataloo. Colonel Massoud Zahedian, Chief of the Morality Police, told ISNA that his unit is actively identifying and confronting Iranian underground musicians who produce their work inside Iran and distribute it on television satellite channels abroad.

A Republican congressman said on Wednesday that if the United States ends up using military force against Iran's nuclear program, it should do so with nuclear weapons.