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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.

A fashion show in Tehran has upset Iranian authorities by using variations of the national flag and pictures of animals in its designs, it's reported.

Iran needs 190,000 separative work units for uranium enrichment, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying by state IRIB TV on Tuesday.

Iran needs 190.000 enrichment Separative Work Units to meet Bushehr nuclear power plant's annual fuel, said Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi.

The United States must focus as much on halting human rights abuses in Iran as on nuclear negotiations with the regime, the Chairman of the US House Foreign Relations Committee has demanded.

TEHRAN An official at the presidential office has rejected reports claiming that Iran may name the presidential chief of staff as the country's next ambassador to the United Nations.

A member of the Iranian negotiating team said there are still "wide differences" between Iran and the six major powers in their talks over Tehran's nuclear programme, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported.