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TEHRAN, IRAN Associated PressIran accused three detained Americans of spying Monday, signaling Tehran intends to put them on trial.

Iran calls on regional states not to interfere in Yemeni affairs, amid reports that Saudi jets are bombing northern parts of the country with chemical weapons, Press TV reported.

Iran appointed Ramin Mehmanparast as the Iranian Foreign Ministry's new spokesman, ISNA reported. He was introduced to journalists today.

Iran will launch the Misbah artificial satellite into the Earth's orbit by mid-2011, Iranian Aerospace Industries Organization Chairman Mehdi Farahi was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.

Iran's embassy in Britain deplores a decision by Queen's College of Oxford University to offer a graduate scholarship in Philosophy to Iranian students in memory of Neda Agha-Soltan, Press TV reported.

Dueling visits to Brazil by the presidents of Israel and Iran are showing the South American powerhouse's growing role in Mideast diplomacy, AP reported.

An unsettled political situation in Iran may be complicating efforts to seal a nuclear fuel deal between Tehran and major world powers, President Barack Obama said on Monday.

The Defense Ministry has established a new (torpedo-boat) destroyer and in the coming days will give it to the ownership of the armed forces, said Iran's Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, the official website of the Iranian television Iribnews reported.

Three U.S. citizens arrested on Iran-Iraq border are accused of spying, said the prosecutor of Tehran city, Abbas Jafari Dovlatabadi, IRNA news agency reported.

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Iran is interested in expanding ties with neighboring and friendly Azerbaijan, the chairman of the commission on social affairs of the Iranian Parliament Agai Suleiman Jafarzadeh said during a meeting of the committee on social policy of the Parliament of Azerbaijan, the official website of the Parliament of Azerbaijan reported.

Capitalism is nearing its end and the system must change, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference's Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation in Istanbul today.

Tehran prosecutor said on Monday that three U.S. citizens detained by Iranian security forces on the Iran-Iraq border in late July are charged with espionage, the Xinhua reported according to official IRNA news agency.

The United States is willing to give Iran time to decide whether to accept a U.N. draft deal that is meant to defuse nuclear tensions with world powers but has drawn Iranian objections, a U.S. diplomat said on Monday, Reuters reported.

The visit aimed to determine prospects of relations between the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan and Iran in fields of economy, culture and tourism.

This photo taken Oct. 1, 2009 shows Iranian musician Shahram Nazeri, center, and his son Hafez, right, rehearsing for an upcoming Los Angeles concert in Beverly Hills, Calif.

By Iran GlobalPost Correspondent TEHRAN, Iran a ' Every year, thousands of Iranians flock to the seaside to enjoy the sand and water.

Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday slammed President Barack Obama's reconciliation efforts as insincere, as security forces and antigovernment protesters braced for a showdown Nov. 4 - the 30th anniversary of the US Embassy seizure by militant students.

"The new president of the US ...[sent] messages repeatedly - verbal, written - [saying] come, let us turn the page, come let us create a new situation," Ayatollah Khamenei told a group of students. "Now eight months have passed [and] what we saw was opposite to what they have expressed in words.... The American government is a really arrogant power and the Iranian nation will not be deceived with its apparent reconciliatory behavior."

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Azerbaijan and Iran are brotherly countries and their relations are developing rapidly, Islamic Consultative Assembly Social Affairs Commission Chairman Suleyman Jafarzadeh told journalists in Baku.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday called for adopting foreign exchange basket by the Islamic states, Iranian national news agency (Irna) reported.

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Iranian government's plan to reallocate subsidies may tend to give a short term boost to the economy, but in the long run it could be inflationary, said Paul Sullivan, professor of economics at the National Defense University (USA).