ALI AKBAR DAREINI

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FILE - This undated file photo released by his family via FreeAmir.org shows Amir Hekmati. Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine being held in Iran over the past two years on accusations of spying for the CIA. The semiofficial ISNA news agency reported Saturday, April 12, 2014 that an appeals court has overturned a death sentence of an American man convicted of working for the CIA, instead sentencing him to 10 years in prison. Iran charged Hekmati with receiving special training and serving at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for his alleged mission. Hekmati's father, a professor at a community college in Flint, Michigan, has said his son is not a CIA spy. (AP Photo/Hekmati family via FreeAmir.org, File)

Lawyer: Ex-Marine gets 10-year sentence in Iran

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · April 12, 2014 7:42 pm

In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 photo provided by the office of the Iranian President, Hamid Aboutalebi, an Iranian diplomat, who was recently named as Iran's ambassador at the United Nations, speaks at his office in Tehran, Iran. Iran has no plans to name a new diplomat to the United Nations, its Foreign Ministry said Saturday, after the United States blocked its pick in a rare rebuke that could stir fresh animosity at a time when the two countries have been seeking a thaw in relations. The Obama administration said Friday that the U.S. had informed Iran it would not grant a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, a member of the group responsible for the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. While U.S. officials had been trying to persuade Iran to simply withdraw Aboutalebi's name, the announcement amounted to an acknowledgement that those efforts had not been successful. (AP Photo/Iranian Presidency Office, Mohammad Berno)

Iran rejects naming new UN envoy after US refusal

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · April 12, 2014 5:34 pm

Iran leader: Improved economy can fight sanctions

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · March 21, 2014 7:41 am

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, Iran's heavy water nuclear facility is backdropped by mountains near the central city of Arak, Iran. A senior Iranian official said Monday, March 17, 2014, that an alleged attempt to sabotage one of Tehran's nuclear facilities, the nuclear reactor at Arak in the center of the country, involved foreign intelligence agencies who tampered with imported pumps. Tehran has accused the Israel, the U.S. and their allies of undermining Iran's nuclear program through covert operations. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

Iran negotiator cancels dinner with EU’s Ashton

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · March 17, 2014 7:39 pm

Iran says sabotage prevented at nuclear facility

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · March 15, 2014 2:24 pm

Iran president condemns hard-line media crackdown

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · March 8, 2014 7:03 am

Iran’s Guard says it has multiple warhead missiles

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · March 5, 2014 9:41 am

Rouhani: Beliefs stop Iran from pursuing nukes

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · March 1, 2014 4:50 am

Official: Iran has studied Israeli strike tactics

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · February 25, 2014 11:13 am

In this Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014 photo, two men walk toward salt-covered rocks that were once deep underwater at Lake Oroumieh, in northwestern Iran. Oroumieh, one of the biggest saltwater lakes on Earth, has shrunk more than 80 percent to 1,000 square kilometers (nearly 400 square miles) in the past decade, mainly because of climate change, expanded irrigation for surrounding farms and the damming of rivers that feed the body of water, experts say. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Energy and Environment

Saving dying lake is priority for Iranian leader

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · February 19, 2014 8:48 pm

French business delegation in landmark Iran visit

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · February 3, 2014 7:34 pm

Kofi Annan, former U.N secretary general, center, reads a statement at the conclusion of his meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, with Martti Ahtisaari, former president of Finland, left, and Ernesto Zedillo, Mexican ex-president, right. The former head of the United Nations urged Iran Monday to build on a historic deal reached with world powers in November and work toward a final settlement over its contested nuclear program. Annan, who is heading a group of ex-world leaders known as "The Elders," made the comments after a meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Monday. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Global “Elders” urge Iran to build on nuclear deal

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · January 27, 2014 5:08 pm