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Iran says number of foreign tourists surges

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · October 18, 2014 6:50 pm

Iran tips hand about structure of secret services

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · October 15, 2014 5:40 pm

Iran’s Rouhani: Nuke deal possible before deadline

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · October 13, 2014 9:03 pm

Report: Iran police airplane crash kills 7

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · October 11, 2014 9:10 pm

Iran president: Differences remain on nuclear deal

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · October 8, 2014 10:08 am

Iran general helped Iraq’s Kurds battle IS group

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · September 24, 2014 3:28 pm

National Security

Lack of trust keeps Iran, US away from coalition

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · September 20, 2014 4:37 pm

FILE - In this frame grab taken from video posted to YouTube, people dance to Pharrell Williams' hit song "Happy" on a rooftop in Tehran, Iran. A defense lawyer in Iran says six young Iranian men and women videotaped dancing to "Happy" and the video's director have been sentenced to suspended jail terms and lashes. Lawyer Farshid Rofugaran said Friday, Sept. 19, 2014 that the seven have been sentenced to six months in jail and 91 lashes each, though the verdict won't be carried out unless the defendants commit crimes and are found guilty in the future. He says the suspended jail term is the punishment for acting in the video and the lashes are over ignoring Islamic norms.(AP Photo, File)

Iranian youth behind ‘Happy’ video sentenced

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · September 19, 2014 2:07 pm

Iran's Science, Research and Technology Minister Reza Faraji Dana speaks in his impeachment in an open session of the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. In a move led by hard-line lawmakers, Iran's parliament dismissed the science minister on Wednesday over his alleged support for pro-Western voices at universities, dealing a blow to moderate President Hassan Rouhani. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s parliament dismisses moderate minister

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · August 20, 2014 6:31 pm

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with Iranian ambassadors in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Khamenei on Wednesday dismissed the value of direct talks with the U.S., his first comments touching on meetings that officials from the Islamic Republic had with Americans dating back to secret talks that began in 2012. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

National Security

Iran’s supreme leader dismisses direct US talks

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · August 13, 2014 9:42 pm

Iran policeman gets 3 years over death of blogger

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · August 7, 2014 12:43 pm

In this Friday, June 13, 2014 photo, Zoroastrians pray in Chak Chak, a mountain shrine, some 600 kilometers (370 miles) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran. Adherents of the Zoroastrian religion from around the world gathered at a mountain shrine in central Iran this week to celebrate their Persian roots, praying in remembrance of a princess who fled the 7th century Arab invasion. At Chak Chak, believers gathered to remember Nikbanou, a heroine of the faith who according to tradition took shelter in the mountain and prayed for help. Miraculously, the mountain was said to have opened up and given protection to the princess, the youngest daughter of the last king of the Persian Sassanian empire. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s Zoroastrians celebrate Persian roots

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · June 15, 2014 8:07 am