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Foreign Ministry spokeswoman reacting to broadcasted news on landing of an American plane in TehranESs Mehrabad Airport said on Friday that the US plane was chartered by Ghana Presidential Office and was carrying a high ranking Ghanaian delegation, IRNA reported.

April 17, 2014 - Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States entered into a settlement agreement with the holders of terrorism-related judgments against the government of Iran concerning properties found to have been forfeited by the entities that served as fronts for the ... (more)

This Feb. 6, 2014 photo, provided by the office of the Iranian President, shows Hamid Aboutalebi, an Iranian diplomat, who was recently named as Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, speaking in his office in Tehran, Iran.

Hamid Aboutalebi, an Iranian diplomat, who was recently named as Iran's ambassador at the United Nations, speaks at his office in Tehran, Iran.

Arash Mohammadi and Ayat Mehralibeglo two Iranian political prisoners, have been on hunger strike in Tabriz Central Prison since Tuesday April 15 to protest the mistreatment of prisoners' families by prison authorities.

The crisis in Ukraine has not thus far diverted international diplomatic efforts toward a lasting deal on Tehran's controversial nuclear program, says Iran expert Barbara Slavin .

Hundreds of people are executed every year in Iran. Balal, thanks to the actions of his victim's mother, will not be one of them.

Iranian president touts Tehran's military might but tells crowd at an annual parade that the country supports dialogue, not war.

A corporate jet with a small American flag decal on the tail, which arrived despite complex trade rules against doing business with Iran, at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2014.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran's state TV said a magnitude 5.3 earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated district in the south of the country.

International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and Iranian technicians disconnect the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium production at nuclear power plant of Natanz, some 300 kilometres south of Tehran A monthly update by the IAEA says that Iran has cut its most sensitive stockpile of nuclear material by 75 percent, ... (more)

H.E. Ambassador Farhad Sepahbody, a distinguished career diplomat during the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, died in exile at his home in Sedona, Arizona, on Sunday, 6 April 2014.

The father and mother of Abdolah Hosseinzadeh, who was murdered in a knife fight in 2007, remove the noose from his killer's neck.

WAM TEHRAN, 17th April, 2014 -- An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale struck an area near the town of Shanbeh in Bushehr province, Southern Iran, early Thursday morning.

The Tabriz University of Medical Sciences prepared a program presenting benefits to Azerbaijanis arriving for treatment in Iran, and a special suite in one of the hospitals of the country.

Iran's state TV says a magnitude 5.3 earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated district in the south of the country.

Iran will sway West to allow it to have permanent near nuclear break-out capability, if it exchanges reduced plutonium production capacity, dilution of medium-level enriched uranium for permanent enrichment capabilities of low-level uranium.

Earlier this week, Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Reza Taghipour denied his department's involvement in jamming satellite signals, and said the ministry was "seriously" pursuing the case.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will travel to Russia next week for a meeting of the countries that border the Caspian Sea, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Disciplinary Affairs Ali Abdollahi said here Tuesday that expansion of ties with the Persian Gulf Arab neighbours is Iran's fundamental policy, Iran's IRAN reported.