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REFILE TO ADD RESTRICTIONS Raed Jaser arrives to court in the back of a police car in Toronto, Ontario, April 23, 2013, in this still image taken from video courtesy of CTV News. REUTERS/CTV News/

Canada train plot suspect traveled to Iran: U.S. officials

Investigators believe one of two suspects charged in Canada with plotting to blow up a railroad track carrying passenger trains traveled to Iran within the past two years, U.S. law enforcement and national security officials said on Thursday.

Posted in International, News
Tagged blow up, canada, Iran, passenger trains, railroad, suspect, terror, terrorism, train plot
Damaged houses are seen in the earthquake stricken town of Bushehr in Iran, April 9, 2013, in this handout photo from ISNA. REUTERS/Mohammad Salehinia/ISNA

U.S. offers to help Iran after deadly quake

The White House, at odds with Iran over its nuclear program, offered on Wednesday to help Tehran grapple with a deadly earthquake in southern Iran.

Posted in International, News
Tagged deadly, earthquake, help, Iran, US
Iran's representatives take part in talks with top officials from the United States, Britain, France, EU, China, Germany and Russia on Iran's nuclear programme in the Kazakh city of Almaty
Credit: AFP/Getty Images

Nuclear stalemate continues between Iran and world powers

World powers and Iran failed again to ease their decade-old dispute over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program in talks that ended on Saturday, prolonging a stand-off that risks spiraling into a new Middle East war.

Posted in International, News
Tagged Iran, Nuclear Talks | Reply
U.S. President Barack Obama stands in between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and President Shimon Peres upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv.
Credit: Reuters

Obama arrives in Israel, vows undying support

Making his first official visit to Israel, President Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday unwavering commitment to the security of the Jewish State where concern over a nuclear-armed Iran has clouded bilateral relations.

Posted in National
Tagged barack obama, foreign policy, international relations, Iran, Israel, nuclear bomb, Obama, Palestine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | Reply
Credit: Getty Images/Fars

Iranian media Photoshops Michelle Obama’s Oscar dress

Fars, a news agency in Iran, Photoshopped pictures of Michelle Obama by adding sleeves and a higher neckline to her Oscars dress.

Posted in International, News, Television
Tagged Academy Awards, International, Iran, Michelle Obama, Oscars | Reply
Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani
Credit: Reuters

More Uranian Deposits Found in Iran, Days Before Nuclear Talks

Days before resuming talks over its disputed atomic program, Iran said on Saturday it had found significant new deposits of [...]

Posted in International, News
Tagged Iran, Nuclear Program, Uranium | Reply
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Iran airs footage it says is from downed U.S. drone

Iran released what it said was the decoded footage taken by a US reconnaissance drone plane that it captured more [...]

Posted in International
Tagged Iran, Video | Reply
A still image released on January 28, 2013 by Iran's state-run English language Press TV shows a monkey that was launched into space. Iran said on Monday it had launched the live monkey into space.
Credit: Reuters

Ahmadinejad says he is ready to be first Iranian in space

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he was ready to be the first human sent into orbit by Iran’s fledgling [...]

Posted in International
Tagged International, Iran, space | Reply
U.S. President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, former Senator Chuck Hagel.

Hagel to face grilling by Senate panel on Mideast, budget

Chuck Hagel will face tough questions on Pentagon spending cuts and U.S.
relations with Israel and Iran on Thursday as he faces a deeply
skeptical Senate panel considering his nomination to be President Barack
Obama’s next secretary of defense.

Posted in National
Tagged comments, interview, Iran, Israel, national
The United Nations logo is displayed on a door at U.N. headquarters in New York.

United Nations General Assembly kicks off in NYC

International heads of state will be descending upon New York City today for the start of the United Nations General Assembly.

Posted in National
Tagged Iran, national, New York
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