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Listener comments to RFE/RL's Radio Farda and other media coverage show Iranians are generally welcoming their country's interim nuclear deal, although some conservative voices remain skeptical.

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.

When Vancouver Sun columnist Shelley Fralic asked readers to share their favourite holiday films -- there was no shortage of responses.

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An American ex-FBI agent believed to have been held in Iran for the last seven years was working for the CIA on an unapproved mission, the Associated Press news agency reports.

A woman belonging to Iran's Baluch ethnic group has been chosen as the mayor of a provincial city, in a rare example of a minority politician being promoted in the Islamic republic.

Top American nuclear negotiator Wendy Sherman on Thursday sought to assure the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs that the interim deal reached in Geneva last month between P5+1 states and Iran was effective, and that sanctions relief through the deal will be minimal.

Armenia - President Serzh Sarkisian and other officials attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the , Armenian-Iranian border, 8Nov2012.

The wife of an American Christian jailed in Iran called on President Obama to demand her husband's release Thursday, the 444th day of his captivity, and to link the Iranian nuclear deal to his freedom.

Secretary of State John Kerry listens to opening statements as he waits to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The Iranian House of Cinema plans to establish an art house in Heris, one of the towns that was almost destroyed by an earthquake in East Azarbaijan Province in August 2012.

WAM VIENNA, 12th December, 2013 -- The price of OPEC's basket of twelve crudes stood at US$106.81 dollars a barrel on Wednesday, compared with $106.83 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.

Is the "Joint Plan of Action" accord to curb Iran's nuclear program a good agreement for the West and Middle East peace, or is the agreement, signed November 24 in Geneva, just the same treacherous Iranian wine in a fancy new bottle? In other words, have the P5 + 1 governments succeeded with an Iran weakened by economic sanctions, or is Tehran ... (more)

Peugeot is among Western firms that sent executives to an automotive conference in Iran as they gear up to do business again.

Americans show unprecedentedly unanimous support for an increased and steadfast sanctions regime against Iran, a poll revealed Wednesday as the Obama administration continued to campaign hard to avert new Senate sanctions legislation.

Iranian lawmaker Ali Motahari, leaves the podium after delivering a speech on proposed ministers of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the parliament, in Tehran, Iran.

Divers dressed as Santa Claus perform underwater at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo, and the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, The annual show at both acuariums attracts visitors until Christmas Day.

INSS arms expert Emily Landau: Iran's interpretations of nuclear agreement contradict claims put forward by the US: "Why has demand to inspect Parchin vanished?" Iranian interpretations of the Geneva interim nuclear agreement , which run contrary to the White House's presentation of the accord, are going unchecked by the Obama Administration, a ... (more)

The commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard force has criticised the government of President Hassan Rouhani as being under the influence of Western ideas, a sign of the growing tensions between the competing power centres.

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 .