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He said the two of them decided to head home after being caught in a clash with club-wielding forces in central Tehran.

But in late May they were taken to a Tehran hotel and allowed to meet their mothers who had traveled from the United States.

He promised that Tehran could take its 'rightful place' in the world if it renounced terror and embraced peace.

"First, they made us addicted, and now, they are trying to get money out of us, " said the doorman of a building in West Tehran.

The Iranian capital Tehran is at the best of times - one of the most polluted cities on earth.

Reza said he quickly became disillusioned when he saw people being tortured and murdered and women raped in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.

The other possibility, he said, is that Tehran is trying to increase its leverage heading into any eventual negotiations with Washington.

It was an emotional reunion in a Tehran hotel - between three mothers and their adult children imprisoned since July on spying charges.

Tehran's representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency said the meeting was postponed because of "a procedural matter. "

He said Tehran might be ready to return to negotiations.

As one of the many millions of civilian people in Tehran, I hope that this city continues making enough noise to be heard everywhere.

And you know Tehran is like this. It's like a bowl. It's surrounded by mountains, so there's no draught here.

But in recent weeks, authorities say Tehran seems to have slowed the flow of weapons across the border.

Tehran rejected the proposal from its ally, saying that Lula was "emotional" and did not know all the facts of the case.

Interestingly enough I also discovered what appeared to be uncensored internet available at a certain library in Tehran.

He said Tehran was not going to take "any unreasonable" action, but was "ready to counter any threat" .

Worse, they are sold in Tehran, which many would like to call the heart of the Islamic world.

Bauer's mother, Cindy Hickey, said in July that she had seen "positive comment" coming out of Tehran, and hoped they would be freed shortly.

Thankfully, he seems to have learned the lesson that he isn't going to be able to transform Tehran just because he isn't George W. Bush.

"Nothing you can do, " she said, trying not to chortle at the thought of my flying to Tehran to enforce my intellectual property rights.

For the next two or three months, he said he expected harsh rhetoric from Tehran.

He said the IAEA's board of governors should condemn Tehran and that the Security Council should take up the matter.

When I told him my destination was Tehran, he thought I was out of my mind to go there.

Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment, prompting Russia and France to call on Tehran to halt its work.

Western nations accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian energy program - a charge Tehran denies.

But by this point, the first hints of internal political trouble had already appeared on the horizon in Tehran.

He said Washington and Tehran share strategic interests in combating Afghanistan's spiraling opium trade and the resurgence of the Taliban.

Iran ultimately rejected that deal. Western countries suspect Iran is trying to build atomic weapons - a charge Tehran denies.

He also says Tehran is ready to assume major responsibility for the reconstruction of Iraq.

The United States is represented in Iran by Switzerland, but has no interests section in Tehran.

At Tehran the British were dealt out some three hundred years of Western European leadership in history ended.

The company had planned to launch on July 1st but given the recent events in Tehran, it has decided to launch early.

The Iranian oil boom had brought many thousands of peasants out of the villages into the cash economy in population centers like Tehran.

Yesterday's deal reflects Tehran's attempt to drive a wedge between the US and its allies by attracting non-western companies.

Several other people appeared to have been seriously wounded in Tehran's Azadi Square.

Yesterday, Tehran test-fired nine missiles and warned that it would provide massive retaliation to any military strike.

Election Day brought a huge turnout, and I decided to vote in southern Tehran in the very religious neighborhood of Shah Abdul Azim.

President Barrack Obama came out in strong support of anti-government protesters in Tehran.

"Tehran's air pollution is indeed serious, is forced to leave the initiative. " Iranians do business in China Xiede He said so.

I think this announcement is as convincing an answer to the efforts undertaken in Tehran over the last few days as any we could provide.

We would gather early in the morning at his house, load up in three or four cars, and take off for the foothills outside of Tehran.

Any deal will no doubt raise eyebrows in the US which wants sanctions against Iran due to Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

She said that the regime had frozen her bank accounts and pension, as well as those of her husband, who is still in Tehran.

In a departure from his predecessor, President Barack Obama has said his administration intends to directly engage Tehran.

She says the fact that Iran sought to hide the construction of a second uranium enrichment plant calls Tehran's claims into question.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.

AS PUBLIC protest in Tehran seems to dwindle, at any rate on the streets, many Arab leaders are quietly exhaling a sigh of relief.

Jasmin Tabatabai was born and lived in Tehran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, at which point she migrated with her mother to Germany.

The Europeans say they accept that it may be necessary to ratchet up sanctions against the regime in Tehran.

The West claims Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons; Tehran says the program is for civilian purposes.

But so far, the signs from Tehran are still that that's unlikely to be achieved by a colour-coded revolution.

But eventually MEK fell afoul of the regime and began to fight the power holders in Tehran.

Iran's government blamed the United States and Israel for the killing, but those countries have no embassies in Tehran.

It indicates that relations between Washington and Tehran need not be poisoned permanently by a sense of hostility.

Such a proposal has been made and is being reviewed by experts, ' Ahmadinejad told Fars, following a conference in Tehran today.

Renewed chances of talks came during a week when Tehran also proclaimed new advances in nuclear technology.

He made the comments in an address to Iranian expatriates in Tehran.

The IAEA admonished Tehran and insisted on snap inspections and a halt to its uranium enrichment program.

The European Union is to stop importing Iranian oil in July, to put pressure on Tehran to stop enriching uranium.

Iran has released on bail the last of the British embassy employees arrested in Tehran in connection with last month's election protests.

Another group of protesters broke into a second British compound at Qolhak in north Tehran, the IRNA state news agency said.

He denounced last week's launch of an Iranian satellite and said Russian support was needed to force a change in Tehran.

His flight was diverted as it flew over Turkmenistan on Monday, forcing him to return to Tehran, his transit point for Beijing.

On Wednesday, Tehran confirmed it had installed new equipment to step up uranium enrichment work.

Turning out a dismal economic performance at home, Tehran props itself up by challenging enemies abroad: Sunni Arabs, Israel, and the West.

It has closed her Centre for the Defence of Human Rights in Tehran and locked up three of her colleagues.

The test comes at a time when military strikes against Iran in a bid to halt Tehran's nuclear programme are being hotly debated.

Much of the president's news conference was devoted to questions about the U. S. response to Tehran's crackdown.

The Swiss Embassy in Tehran says Swiss diplomats are trying to meet with the three hikers.

It's all these gases. And you know Tehran is like this.

As the cries of "Allahu Akbar! " rang out across the rooftops of Tehran, she'd rock herself back and forth, eyes fixed on the screen.

Amano did say Tehran had been more open about some of its activities during a recent IAEA visit of its facilities.

Analysts say if Tehran makes such a decision, it will be capable of producing a weapon later this year.

He said European countries could do more to place economic and political pressure on Tehran.

And he warned Tehran it faces ever increasing sanctions if it refuses to suspend nuclear enrichment.

January's launch of BBC Persian TV infuriated the Iranians, whose harassment forced the closure of the British Council offices in Tehran.

Speaking in a televised address Wednesday, he also said world powers must be disciplined for the latest sanctions against Tehran.

He said Iran's Tehran research reactor was discussed, adding, "We'll continue to explore this as we go forward. "

On the table, a plan is to send much of Iran's enriched uranium to France and Russia to be refined for use in a research reactor in Tehran.

The newspaper said the men were whipped in a north Tehran square on Friday, each receiving 70-80 lashes for their offences .

But the Pentagon termed the Iranian actions "careless, reckless and potentially hostile" and said Tehran should provide an explanation.

A shoe was thrown at him during a students' demonstration at Tehran's Amir Kabir university in December 2006.

Almost two years after the Iranian government suppressed a popular rebellion, protesters returned to the streets of Tehran.

"So let me get this right, " Mr McCain said to Mr Obama, criticising the Democratic nominee's policy on Tehran's nuclear programme.

Several analysts say the China-Iran relationship is shifting somewhat, in ways that could erode Beijing's sense of obligation to Tehran.

The five permanent members of the U. N. Security Council and Germany are meeting in Berlin to discuss further sanctions against Tehran .

Police helicopters were seen flying over central Tehran as clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky, reports said.

This week, Iraq's defense minister, Hazem Sha'alan, blamed Tehran for the majority of terrorist attacks that have been carried out in Iraq.

Seventeen soldiers have been killed in an explosion at a military base near Iran's capital Tehran, officials say.

Then it would be further processed and sent back as fuel for a Tehran research reactor.

But for reasons that remain unclear, his plane was diverted as it was flying over Turkmenistan on Monday and forced to return to Tehran.

He said what is needed now is a resumption of dialogue with Tehran over its sensitive nuclear activities.

in Tehran, Iran, North, ALBORZ close to the mountains of the hill areas, to cover up a huge Platanus dozens of elegant villa.

Caption : Supporters of Mr. Ahmadinejad reacted as he spoke at a rally in Vali Asr square in Tehran Sunday.

Sanctions against Iran must be toughened unless Tehran negotiates seriously over its controversial nuclear programme, France has warned.

He said that Tehran and Pyongyang in the fight against "arrogant nation" terms in the same camp.

In Tehran petrol is heavily subsidised, so taxis are cheap, and the new metro is still far from complete.

Iranian riot police are reported to have arrested a number of pro-reform protesters in Tehran after demonstrations turned violent.

One of the world's most densely populated metropolitan areas, Tehran also introduced congestion charging and expanded its bus rapid transit.

WITH its shutters down and shops closed, Tehran's usually bustling Grand Bazaar has been quiet of late.

The small but symbolic reversal signaled the administration was gradually continuing to pull back from its policy of engagement with Tehran.

Just south, above Valiasr Square, one of Tehran's major commercial hubs, lines of protesters blocked traffic on the city's most-used street.

In 1967, Iran in Tehran, the United States help build nuclear reactors, highly enriched uranium provided by the United States as a fuel.

The United States broke off diplomatic ties in 1979 following the seizure of the U. S. embassy in Tehran.

The denial of refined gasoline to Iran and the blocking of Tehran's banking relations are out of the question.

A Tehran city councillor recently claimed for his capital nothing less than a "new world record" in air pollution.

She said sometimes she imagines an earthquake in Tehran.

U. S. has always accused Iran of "fishing in the troubled water" in Iraq, but Tehran denied such a charge.

Sabz21 writes [fa] that Tehran has been transformed into a military base and that there are security forces are everywhere.

They want Tehran to be fully open about its nuclear program - including uranium enrichment and possible weapons development.

President Bush says a nuclear-armed Iran would be a dangerous place, stressing Tehran has a decision to make.

The closer Tehran is believed to having a nuclear weapon, Pentagon officials say, the more necessary such a Euroshield becomes.

Among them was one charged with getting the message to the outside world that Libya 2011 was not Tehran 1979.

Tehran is revelling in analogies between Egypt and Tunisia, and its own revolutionary inception.

And last January, and again in November, two scientists who were believed to be central to the nuclear program were killed in Tehran.

His administration is reviewing its Iran policy and hoping to open a dialogue intended to convince Tehran to halt its nuclear programme.

I would never have guessed that before long Tehran University would be closed and my dreams would fade away.

In an irreversible step, Iran and Russia began putting nuclear fuel into the reactor of Tehran's first atomic power station.

Yet as we share their hopes, but we also must remember that those hopes could be snuffed out as they were in Tehran in 1979.

The big powers have previously struggled to reach agreement at the United Nations on measures against Tehran's nuclear programme.

Depending on how the authorities in Damascus and Tehran treat them, the same may be true of Syrian and Iranian Kurds.

It would do nothing to help regime change in Tehran.

Swiss embassy officials who represent U. S. interests in Tehran have not been allowed to visit the three since April.

The British embassy is in a sprawling compound behind 10ft walls on Ferdowsi Avenue in central Tehran.

Since it is not clear who will end up in charge in Tehran, he is biding his time.

Iran accused the United States of being behind the Feb. 4 kidnapping of the diplomat, Jalal Sharafi, who returned to Tehran on Tuesday. U.

The U. S. and its allies had given Tehran until last Dec. 31 to respond to diplomatic overtures.

"The movement is going nowhere, " says a former campaigner who teaches at one of Tehran's universities, where informers abound.

Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful production of electricity, but Western nations suspect Iran wants to make a nuclear weapon.

Moscow has also signalled that it would supply Tehran with new surface-to-air missiles in defiance of US opposition.

Iran Monday rejected US President-elect Obama's latest call for a "carrot and stick" policy in dealing with Tehran's nuclear issue.

The IranAir Boeing 727 was flying from Tehran when it came down and broke into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh.

In 2001, a woman convicted of "corruption on earth" was stoned to death in a Tehran prison for acting in a porn film.

With Saddam dead and a friendly Shia government in Baghdad, the mullahs in Tehran are showing a new self-confidence.

Witnesses and video footage meanwhile showed a long column of pro-Mousavi supporters filing through a part of north Tehran.

Pressure is mounting on Iran over its nuclear programme and the United States has stepped up its push to isolate Tehran economically.

Iranian demonstrators, 29, rushed into the city center in Tehran British Embassy in Iran, Embassy broken glass and burned the British flag.

All other mosques in Tehran have also been forbidden from staging services in her memory.

I fled Tehran on my bicycle he says, after hearing that his friend had been taken into custody by authorities.

China last week signed on to the broad outlines of a new sanctions package against Tehran .

Tehran is not about to give up its nuclear ambitions nor Moscow its expansionism.

TRAVELLERS flying into Tehran were recently denied their usual view of the sprawling metropolis and its majestic mountain backdrop.

Nine Iranian employees at the British embassy in Tehran were then arrested, on charges of inciting protests.

One driver for the switch has been the need to replace aging, highly inefficient cars that have led to high levels of pollution in Tehran.

We did not go to Tehran but visited Tabriz, a city of two million people and Iran's fourth largest city.

Still, Beijing has way too much invested in its multibillion-dollar energy relationship with Tehran to risk it easily.

But a top Iranian religious leader told a prayer service at Tehran University that execution was needless.

The Bush administration spurned direct contacts with Iran without a prior commitment by Tehran to halt enrichment.

Many analysts say that a victory by reformist-minded Mir Hossein Mousavi would have made rapprochement between Washington and Tehran easier.

Do not tell me that the people in the streets of Bangkok and Bishkek and Tehran dream in vain of freedom and democracy.

Iranian television had live coverage of the Ashura ceremonies, including those in Tehran attended by President Ahmadinejad.

The United States and many other nations are highly skeptical of Tehran's claim of peaceful nuclear intentions.

Dozens of opposition supporters have been arrested and electricity and mobile phone services have been cut off in central Tehran.

In the summer of 2007, authorities raided neighbourhoods all over Tehran to confiscate illegal satellite dishes.

Geological Center of Tehran University Web site, the epicenter from the Fars province, very near the town of Al-Dakan.

Last month security forces attacked dozens of female football fans who had bought tickets for a match at the Azadi stadium in Tehran.

Clinton also deplored Iran's detention of several Iranian staff members of the British embassy in Tehran.

Dozens of Chinese companies, meanwhile, are also involved in infrastructure projects in investment-hungry Iran, including the Tehran metro.

Tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating on the streets of Tehran protesting against the result.

THE old American embassy in Tehran is known as the "nest of spies" .

That's why Tehran thinks it is "winning" relative to the United States as the Arab Awakening unfolds.

After 30 years of being partly cut off from the world, Tehran feels more isolated than it ever has in the eight years I've been coming here.

Dr Ebadi's lawyer in Tehran, Nasrin Sotoudeh, said that the medal was seized on the order of a judge at the Tehran Revolutionary Court.

"Tehran was a good joke, " she says, through a choked throat.

He said this nuclear capability could embolden the government in Tehran.

Iran has agreed a UN-backed deal on its nuclear programme after mediation talks with Turkish and Brazilian leaders, reports from Tehran say.

At present there is but one facility, Bushehr I, but Tehran is gearing up to build an entire network of nuclear plants.

Mr Ahmadinejad certainly has millions of enthusiasts, particularly in areas beyond the scrutiny of Tehran's chattering classes.

Iranian state television said Tuesday 7 people were killed Monday near the site of a rally in Tehran.

Moscow did however back a fourth round of sanctions against Tehran, which called for Iran to stop uranium enrichment.

The war of words between Washington and Iran about Tehran's nuclear programme is boosting oil prices.

They realize that it is of great value to record and tehran them to the younger generation.

The White House says it hopes to engage Tehran on its nuclear program.

There's confusion over the status of an Iranian man killed by gunmen on motorbikes in Tehran.

Senior officials of the six major powers conducting nuclear diplomacy with Tehran held a telephone conference call Friday.

Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in Iran and charged with spying, authorities in Tehran said yesterday, .

In May, Brazil helped broker a deal with Iran that would provide Tehran with enriched uranium for medical research.

He also signalled that the US Democratic presidential candidate would push Europe to agree tougher sanctions against Tehran.

Ms. Merkel said Thursday that other steps will be necessary if Tehran does not respond to the international proposal.

A similar deal was first proposed last October, when Tehran had a much smaller stockpile of enriched uranium.

Tehran's police chief vowed to crack down and warned that similar water-war events were planned in other cities.

Tehran does appear to be taking the offer more seriously than diplomats anticipated.

Authorities also cut mobile phone service in the Iranian capital, Tehran, where anti-government demonstrations were the worst.

Washington and its European allies see China's role as critical in the effort to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program.

Tehran first tested the weapon in May, claiming it marked a significant milestone in its missile-technology efforts.

Things looked and sounded different in Shahrak Gharb, an opulent north Tehran suburb in the shadow of the snow-capped Elborz mountains.

Currently, they have been smuggling refined oil to Iran undermining international sanctions against Tehran.

Washington accuses Iran of using its nuclear program as a cover for developing an atomic bomb - a charge Tehran denies.

Still, regime change will inevitably produce governments that are less compliant to Washington, and less hostile to Tehran.

Iranians fleeing the Tehran government's crackdown on its opponents are increasingly seeking refuge in Turkey.

The blogger adds that three of the teachers who were arrested during a demonstration at Parliament were sent to Evin prison in Tehran.

The opposition demonstrators that gathered at square in central Tehran in the face of heavy police presence.

For this reason, Tehran must import about one third of its domestic gasoline supplies.

SHAHRYAR, a fashion-conscious young socialite from Tehran, was immensely proud of his Jackson-5-style Afro.

It links to a page on the photo-hosting site Flickr that includes dozens of pictures from the rally on Monday in Tehran.

On Iran, Beijing shares our assessment that Tehran must not obtain nuclear weapons capabilities.

Tehran has once again denied any military encounter with a US-contracted ship in the Persian Gulf.

This follows a unanimous vote in the United Nations Security Council at the weekend to impose sanctions on Tehran.

It is often said, for example, that Iran's neighbors will be held hostage to Tehran's atomic tyranny.

Iran is a major supplier of oil to energy hungry China, and despite the sanctions Beijing continues to do business with Tehran.

The plane was a Tupolev aircraft on its way from the capital Tehran to Yerevan in Armenia.

Iran has suggested that Washington propose a prisoner swap in return for the release of three Americans held in Tehran accused of spying.

Though they agree that oil makes for an effective weapon, Tehran and Washington don't see eye to eye on anything else.

State media aired footage of thousands of Ahmadinejad supporters in Tehran's Valli Asr Square.

A growing movement in the U. S. aims to tighten the financial screws on Tehran even further.

But he says Iran will only make as much as needed for a medical research reactor in the capital, Tehran.

Eyewitnesses including a reporter for the state-run press TV station say a huge opposition rally has gathered in north Tehran.

I was in a street in Tehran and all of a sudden I had five women in burqas chasing me, totally black from head to toe.

Both also downplayed new U. S. and U. N. sanctions aimed at convincing Tehran to stop sensitive nuclear work.

As for Iran's nuclear programme, the president's outstretched hand has been greeted with more prevarication in Tehran.

Washington and its allies accuse Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.

Whatever the BBC's claims to editorial independence, the authorities in Tehran have denounced the channel as "suspicious and illegal" .

An Iranian diplomat in New York denied North Korea has helped Tehran develop long-range missiles, declining to comment further.

The United Nations in June imposed its fourth round of sanctions against Iran to punish Tehran for its nuclear program.

Iran says it will be used for a research reactor in Tehran.

Until now, Tehran's theocrats have thumbed their nose at the world, knowing their petrodollars have been beyond reach.

Russia and China have been most resistant to tightening economic sanctions against Tehran.

Russia has a contract to supply Tehran with S-300s, but so far has not delivered them.

Iran has responded in kind, with the result that most flights between Tehran and Europe now stop for fuel in a third country.

Killed this past November along with 16 personnel in an explosion at a revolutionary guards base outside Tehran.

Earlier this year, Iranian security officials used tear gas and electric batons to disperse anti-government protesters in Tehran.

Two UN resolutions on Iran have been passed, but they have instituted only mild sanctions which have been met with scoffs from Tehran.

The ongoing post-election turmoil in Iran has raised questions about the outlook for diplomacy to deal with Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Looking out the window at the lights of Tehran reminded me of flying into Mexico City at night.

Bangkok's commerce ministry yesterday said it was sending a delegation to Tehran to discuss the barter deal.

On another level, the danger of an Iranian bomb isn't that Tehran's mullahs will wake up one day and nuke Jerusalem.

But Moscow has delayed completion and urged Tehran to comply with international controls on its program.

Thousands of riot police and basij militia have patrolled Tehran' streets, beating demonstrators and, in some cases, shooting them.

crowds in Tehran chorused that Israel had been "destroyed" .

Washington may also be moving to ratchet up covert pressure on Tehran.

China's official Xinhua news agency says Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai met his Iranian counterpart Ali Larijani Tuesday in Tehran.

Both countries are seeking to boost commercial ties with Iran in areas outside UN sanctions, frustrating US efforts to isolate Tehran.

But Tehran has repeatedly denied that its contentious nuclear and scientific programs mask military ambitions.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran plans to conduct missile war games during a three-day period beginning Sunday, state-run television reported.

But the Israelis and Palestinians were no closer to a deal, and Tehran was still building the bomb.

In 2007, in Tehran, he joined the Iranians in declaring an "axis of unity" against the United States.

But now, some analysts say, Tehran may be taking the lead in some of this development.

Witnesses said crowds were swelling in central Tehran, with people marching silently in large numbers toward Azadi Square.

She was arrested by Iranian officials October 15, 2008, in Tehran for allegedly unlawfully passing another vehicle while driving.

Ordinary Iranians barely feel them: the shops of Tehran are still crammed with foreign goods, from televisions to cornflakes.

State-run media say the condemned people were executed in a prison in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran.

Reza was born in Tehran, Iran and served in the Revolutionary Guards and acted as a spy for the CIA.

The streets of Tehran have been quiet so far today.

Unconfirmed reports say thousands of Iranians have visited Tehran's main cemetery in the past 24 hours to mourn the victims of the violence.

Western governments seized upon this as further evidence that Tehran was in breach of United Nations obligations.

In the nuclear row, the United States accuses Tehran of seeking to build atom bombs, a charge Iran denies.

AirAsia X flies to several destinations including London, Taipei, Tehran, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo and a number of cities in China and India.

Tehran has rejected accusations that it is working to develop a weapon and says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

An Iranian woman at the Freedom Tower in Tehran shows her opposition to last weekend's presidential election results.

Mr. Bashir over the weekend attended an antiterrorism conference in Tehran.