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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (L) hugs his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika following their meeting, 15 August 2000 in Algiers. Chavez, who arrived on Monday in Algeria, and whose country holds the rotating Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)' presidency, said yesterday the heads of state of Algeria, Qatar, Nigeria, Iran, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates had confirmed they would attend the September OPEC summit marking the 40th anniversary of the organisation.

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  • Saudi Arabia warns against Iran's nuclear program

    its neighbors since countries in the region harbor no ill-intentions to the Islamic Republic."We stress the danger of the Iranian nuclear program to the security of the whole region," Prince Saud said Saturday in a joint news conference with Indian External 5/25/13 Read more »

  • Maller: Sanctions alone won't stop Iran's nuclear push

    is no shortage of ideas for increasing such engagement. A plan to re-establish full diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran over time, starting with direct talks between high-level officials, would be a good first step. Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann   Read more »

  • Report: Rafsanjani blasts Iran's rulers

    -- An Iranian pro-reform website is reporting that former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has strongly criticized the policies of the country's ruling clerical establishment, days after a constitutional watchdog disqualified him from running in the June   Read more »

  • Iran's Ahmadinejad looks to outsider options

    aide Mashaei is an extension of internal power struggles launched by Ahmadinejad that tried to challenge the structure of how Iran is run: All major powers and policymaking is reserved to Khamenei, the supreme leader. The president's portfolio mostly involves   Read more »

  • House committee passes Iran sanctions legislation

    and other world powers fear Iran's production and stockpiling of uranium enrichment is aimed at developing a nuclear weapon. Iran insists its work is for peaceful purposes. Congress has slapped penalties on Iran four times since June 2010.The committee's Nuclear   Read more »

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About Iran

Iran, (Persian: ايران‎ , Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ايران‎ , transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān), and formerly known as Persia in the West, is a large Western Asian country located in the Middle East and Central Asia. Its area equals the size of the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Germany combined. Iran borders Armenia, Azerbaijan (including its Nakhichevan exclave) and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and Iraq and Turkey to the west. In addition, it borders the Persian Gulf, across which lie Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Shi'a Islam is the official state religion and Persian the official language.

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