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(CNN) -- The captors of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, two Americans currently being held in Iran on suspicion of espionage, allowed them to telephone home over the weekend, according a statement released Monday by members of their families. The Sunday calls, the third received by the families in...

(CNN) -- An Al Jazeera reporter who disappeared after landing in the Syrian capital of Damascus last month to cover anti-government protests has been released, the network said early Wednesday. The network said Dorothy Parvaz was safe and well in Doha, where her fiance had gone to greet her...

EHRAN, Iran – An Iranian spokesman says the country has received a new shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia for its only nuclear power plant. Hamid Khadem Qaemi, from Iran's nuclear agency, says Russia delivered a total of 33 tons (30 metric tons) by plane over the last week for the...

Iran called the deployment of foreign troops in Bahrain unacceptable on Tuesday and warned Saudi Arabia and its ally Washington of "dangerous consequences" for intervening in the island nation's political crisis. About 1,000 Saudi soldiers entered Bahrain on Monday as part of an effort by the...

Uprisings across the Arab world. Bearings askew. Sands shifting like nobody's business. And into this disorienting world of new uncertainties, the Islamic Republic of Iran sends a pair of warships toward the Suez Canal, bless its heart. It's the diplomatic equivalent of comfort food, like coming...

-- Middle Eastern leaders "can't be behind the curve" as their populations demand change, President Barack Obama said Tuesday after protesters forced out Egypt's longtime strongman and faced a government crackdown in Iran. Speaking at a White House news conference, Obama said Iran's clerical...

-- In a few breathtaking weeks, the winds of change whipped from Tunisia east to Egypt and Jordan, bringing down two regimes and putting the third on notice that it must make democratic changes. Now analysts, and a world suddenly focused on the region, are wondering whether those winds will...

-- Iran and Turkey signed a trade pact Sunday, one which Tehran said could be worth $30 billion over five years and signaled even stronger ties between the two nations. Both nation's leaders touted the agreement as something that could provide huge mutual economic benefit, according to their...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/06/candiotti.iran.us.hikers.trial.cnn -- The trial of three U.S. hikers charged with espionage in Iran is expected to continue in the next few weeks, according to the office of the lawyer representing them and a diplomatic official. The next date for...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/09/24/snow.sarah.shourd.speaks.cnn -- The trial of three U.S. hikers started Sunday in Iran, according to the office of the lawyer representing them. Iran accuses Americans Shane Bauer, 28, Josh Fattal, 28, and Sarah Shourd, 32, of spying and trespassing...

-- The United States is urging the Iranian government to halt executions after Tehran hanged a Dutch-Iranian woman, saying she was a drug smuggler. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has said the drug charges were only a pretext to execute Zahra Bahrami, and the Netherlands...

-- The Netherlands froze all ties with Iran Sunday after Tehran hanged a Dutch-Iranian woman a day earlier, calling the execution a "shocking act by a barbaric regime." And Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal will "discuss possible measures" against Iran by the European Union on Monday, the...

-- Iran executed two men Monday for their actions during post-election unrest in 2009, state media reported. Press TV described the men as terrorists and members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). Jafar Kazemi and Mohammad Ali Haj Aqaei were hanged on Monday "for distributing...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/05/sayah.iran.nuclear.cnn -- Negotiations over Iran's controversial nuclear program resumed Saturday morning after an opening session that lasted almost until midnight. During what appears to have at times been a contentious day of talks, Western...

-- Iran's acting foreign minister touted a tour by international dignitaries of its nuclear facilities as a sign of Tehran's goodwill and transparency, state-run media reported, although none of those visitors came from the U.N. Security Council and other countries that have taken issue with its...

-- Iran is planning to launch a new satellite into orbit by the end of March, according to the country's semi-official Fars News Agency. Wednesday's announcement for the planned launch of the Fajr -- or "Dawn" -- satellite follows a recent statement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on...

- The United States said Monday it is "dismayed" by the 11-year prison term reportedly handed down for an Iranian human rights lawyer and urged her immediate release. Nasrin Sotoudeh's sentence included five years for "acting against national security," another five years for not wearing a...

The reactor at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran. The Iranian atomic chief says Iran can build nuclear fuel plates. -- Iran can now make its own nuclear fuel plates and rods, spurred in part by the West's behavior, the country's atomic chief and acting foreign minister told the...

- A moderate earthquake shook southern Iran Wednesday morning, injuring at least 16 people and causing damage in a number of villages, state media reported. "A number of old houses in rural areas have been damaged and seven villages have been severely damaged," the semi-official Mehr News...

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast addresses a press conference in Tehran on December 28, 2010 - Iran has invited ambassadors from different countries to visit the country's nuclear facilities, state-run media reported. "The representatives from some European countries, NAM...