Experts who are painstakingly rebuilding the Bam citadel after an earthquake destroyed it a decade ago say Iran's architectural masterpiece will never return to its past glory but are hopeful they will restore some of it.
Last year, while Jake Sullivan was traveling with his boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he quietly disappeared during a stop in Paris. He showed up again a few days later, rejoining Clinton's traveling contingent in Mongolia.
Senior Iranian officials on Monday dismissed as "completely untrue" a Reuters report alleging that President Hassan Rouhani has underlined his willingness to improve ties with the West in an article in the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, stressing that such an article basically never existed.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has implied to expel US Ambassador to Ankara for his alleged remarks regarding a major graft probe in which four ministers face allegations of bribery and wrongdoing, and the state bank Halkbank is accused of for links to suspicious money transactions and gold-smuggling from Iran.
The United States has not changed its position on Iran's possible external participant in the Geneva II Peace Conference scheduled for January 22, 2014, Russian Deputy Foreign
Minister Gennady Gatilov said ahead of the Russia-U.S.-U.N. meeting.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and British Ambassador to Russia Tim Barrow exchanged views on pressing international issues with a focus on the Iranian nuclear programme and Syrian chemical disarmament
Rudaw TV’s use of a Kurdistan map in its daily weather forecast has caused uproar in Turkey and among Iran’s Azeri community, calling it a threat to their land.
The head of the European Parliament delegation visiting Iran, Tarja Cronberg, said on Monday night that Iran’s nuclear deal with six world powers cracked openings
for offering humanitarian aides to the Iranian nation.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran is to continue the negotiations process seriously. In his facebook page on Sunday, he wrote that Iran is going to show calculated, vigilant and targeted reactions to any kind of inappropriate action.