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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.

Evidence that Hamas is firing more sophisticated weapons at Israel - including longer-range rockets - than in past conflicts is focusing a new light on Iran 's role in arming the militant organization.

A Sydney father stabbed to death in the middle of a Parramatta shopping centre had just returned from a weekend away with a six-year-old son he ''adored''.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that $1.75 billion in Iranian funds be turned over to families of the victims of the 1983 bombings of a Marine barracks in Beirut.

Iran said on Wednesday it had offered ways to address foreign concerns over its underground Fordow uranium enrichment plant, hinting at flexibility on a serious obstacle to a nuclear deal with big powers as a self-imposed July 20 deadline nears.

Iran on Wednesday once again rejected media reports alleging that it has supplied Iraq with weapons and fighter jets, and expressed the hope that Iraqi groups agree to form a new government and strengthen unity against terrorist groups, Fars News Agency reported.

A widescale hunger strike is currently underway among Iranian political prisoners yet we are unaware of its details and are not doing anything about it.

The world's luckiest school custodian, who works at a girls' high school in Karaj, never thought in thousand years that one day he would be holding the lucky ticket in hand when he bought a juice.

TEHRAN The head of Iran's National Library says he believes that President Hassan Rouhani and former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani have similar "intellectual roots".

FIVE YEARS BEFORE THE 1979 Islamic Revolution transformed Iran, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a pilot who had earned his wings in 1946 flying a British Tiger Moth, arranged for Iran to purchase 80 Grumman F-14A Tomcats and 633 Hughes AIM-54 Phoenix missiles for $2 billion.

July 8, 2014-The United States should reinstate sanctions on Iran's state TV and radio broadcasting agency, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting , for the continuation of its widespread human rights violations, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.

The national park of Khar Turan , located southeast of the Iranian city of Shahrud, is believed to be the second largest biosphere reserve in the world.

Iranian filmmaker Mojtaba Raei plans to put the spotlight on the fraternity between the Persian poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi and his tutor Shams of Tabriz in his new film.