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S. Korean president arrives in Iran for talks on ties

South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrived in Iran's capital Tehran on Sunday for talks on bilateral ties and economic cooperation.

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Iran's business tycoon sentenced to death over corruption scandal: judiciary

Iran's billionaire tycoon, Babak Zanjani, was sentenced to death over financial corruption scandal, Iran's Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei announced on Sunday.

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Who covered nude statues in Rome during Iranians' visit?

The cover-up of nude statues at Rome' s Capitoline Museums during a two-day visit by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has turned into a mysterious blame game in Italy.

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Saadi's poems attest to China-Iran ties

​Beijing's Niujie Mosque has many treasures: a five-century-old Koran, a gilded wooden plate engraved with an emperor' s order and foreign sheik tombs from hundreds of years ago.

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Iranian president hails lift of U.S., EU sanctions

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday hailed the lift of nuclear-related sanctions on the Islamic Republic by the United States and European Union after the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed Tehran's commitments to the July deal.

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"Navigational error" leads to U.S. sailors' intrusion into Iranian waters: Pentagon chief

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter confirmed Thursday that "a navigational error" had led to the incident in which 10 U.S. sailors were detained briefly by Iran in the Gulf.

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Iran navy detains 2 U.S. boats with 10 crew in Gulf

Iran's Revolutionary Guards detained two U.S. boats with 10 crew aboard after the boats entered Iranian territorial waters in the Gulf "illegally," the country's semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.

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EU adopts legislative framework for lifting sanctions against Iran

​The European Union (EU) here on Sunday adopted the legislative framework for lifting all of its nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions against Iran.

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Putin, Obama praise Iranian nuclear deal over phone: Kremlin

​Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama praised the recently clinched Iranian nuclear deal in a phone conversation, the Kremlin press service said Wednesday.

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Iran nuclear agreement formally announced, Kerry says a good deal

​Iran and six world major countries have adopted an agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue, European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini formally announced here on Tuesday.

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Ceremony being arranged for Monday following Iranian nuclear negotiation: source

​A ceremony would be held in Vienna after the ongoing Iranian nuclear negotiation on Monday, a diplomatic source said on Sunday.

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Iran says "excessive demands" push nuclear talks into deadlock

​The United States pushed the nuclear talks into deadlock with excessive demands, local Fars news agency quoted an Iranian diplomat in Vienna as saying on Thursday.

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Iranian chief negotiator for nuclear talks to leave for Tehran: official

​Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to leave Vienna for Tehran on Sunday night, an Iranian official told Iranian media.

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Iran's high legislative body endorses Majlis bill on nuke rights

​Iran's Guardian Council of Constitution, the high legislative body of the country, endorsed on Wednesday the recent bill of the Iranian Majlis (parliament) obliging the government to safeguard rights in a potential nuclear deal with the world powers.

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U.S. says Iranian troops board cargo ship after warning shots

Iranian forces boarded a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship moving into waters in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Defense Department (DoD) said Tuesday.

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Iran charges U.S. reporter with four crimes: report

Iranian authorities are charging The Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief with four serious crimes including espionage, the newspaper reported on Monday.

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Iran nuclear talks move towards historic point

​As the March 31 deadline approaches, delegates from the P5+1 countries and Iran on Sunday continued their intensive negotiations to reach an understanding which could pave way for the final resolution of the long disputed Iranian nuclear issue.