Tehran Province

Iraq Working For Release Of Americans Held In Iran

Iraqi Official: Baghdad Working To Ensure Release Of 3 Americans Detained In Iran (AP) BAGHDAD (AP) - An Iraqi official says Baghdad has contacted Tehran in a bid to secure the release of three Americans detained in Iran, but...

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Newsweek Reporter's Ordeal in Iran

On June 21, reporter Maziar Bahari was rousted out of bed and taken to Tehran's notorious Evin prison—accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, Mossad…and NEWSWEEK. This is the story of his captivity—and of an Iran whose rampant...

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Iran rejects threats, urges more talks

MOSCOW, November 21 (RIA Novosti) - Tehran rejects threats as part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare against it and calls for more talks on the nuclear issue, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. In a televised...

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Iran to hold war games

ALI AKBAR DAREINI November 22, 2009 - 7:29AM AP Iran will begin large-scale air defence war games on Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack, a senior military commander said on Saturday,...

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Iran and Kuwait discuss ties

The Kuwaiti prime minister arrived in Tehran on Saturday at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation. He is accompanied by the ministers of foreign affairs, oil, energy, commerce and information as well as...

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Tehran to host mime festival in winter

Tehran's Eshraq Cultural Center will host the first edition of a mime festival from February 6 to 9. The festival was planned to be held in summer 2009 but was postponed due to financial problems, the festival's organizer...

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The Big Picture: Tehran

By NASA Posted: November 20, 2009 Tehran, Iran’s capital, ranks among the world’s fast-growing cities. In the early 1940s, Tehran’s population was about 700,000. By 1966, it had risen to 3 million, and by 1986—during the...

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Iran To Launch Satellite On Its Own By Late 2011

Iran Says It Will Launch Another Communications Satellite Without Outside Help In 2 Years (AP) TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said...

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Iran irked still over Jundallah attacks

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The government of Pakistan is expected to hand the alleged perpetrators of an October bombing in southern Iran over to Tehran, Iranian leaders said. Pakistani ties with Iran soured in the...

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U.N. panel condemns Iran for post-election crackdown (Reuters)

Reuters - The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran on Friday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged.

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