Iran has detained a fourth Iranian American, California businessman Ali Shakeri, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, calling his arrest part of a "disturbing pattern" of harassment of dual citizens.
International human rights groups urged Iran on Thursday to immediately release four Iranian-American scholars and activists being held on suspicion of spying.
The United States warned U.S. citizens on Thursday against traveling to Iran, accusing Islamic authorities there of a "disturbing pattern" of harassment after the detention of a fourth Iranian-American for alleged espionage.
Iran's top negotiator and the EU foreign policy chief failed to break a deadlock over Tehran's nuclear program on Thursday despite a threat of fresh international sanctions.
Iran's chief negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana failed to reach a breakthrough on the Iranian nuclear deadlock in a meeting on Thursday but the two said they would meet again soon.
Talks between EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani on Thursday failed to break the deadlock over Tehran's nuclear programme.
The United States told Iran on Thursday it must change its nuclear course or be isolated, but Tehran remained defiant despite the specter of harsher sanctions as it held talks on its atomic work with the European Union.
VIENNA, May 31 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the United States would not alter its demand that Iran suspend uranium enrichment before she would join talks on its nuclear program, exactly one year after she first made the offer in a dramatic gambit to halt Tehran's push to o...
Turkey and Iran agreed in principle to expand their electricity trade and build dams and power stations, Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said Thursday.
The United States said Thursday that a fourth Iranian-American has been detained in Iran and alleged that the country's Islamic authorities are engaged in a "disturbing pattern" of harassment against dual citizens wrongly accused of spying.