The report about a putative deal between Buenos Aires and Tehran appeared last weekend in the Argentine media.
The world is full of reconcilables and deal-makers, bazaaris one and all in Damascus and Tehran and Palestine.
So I think that there's a tremendous amount of sympathy within both Washington and Tehran for Haleh and Shaul.
DC, and Tehran, argue that America and Iran stand a better chance of resolving their differences over a table than through a megaphone.
Here in Damascus, I've been speaking to a senior official doing a lot of his shuttle diplomacy, at least to Moscow and Tehran.
The Obama administration and United Nations are closely scrutinizing whether Pyongyang and Tehran may be cooperating in developing nuclear weapons, a charge the countries deny.
Iran Air has weekly direct flights between Caracas, Damascus and Tehran.
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This has led to accusations from Ankara that Syria and its ally Iran are providing support to the PKK, charges denied by both Damascus and Tehran.
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U.S. officials rebutted those claims, and Tehran produced no evidence.
The Islamic Republic News Agency says Iran has dug up most of the mines, and Tehran has threatened to cancel Inpex's contract and give it to another oil company.
Ties between Baku and Tehran have historically been troubled.
Cameron's spokesman, Jean-Christophe Gray, said the prime minister and Kerry also "reiterated their shared determination to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran" ahead of talks between world leaders and Tehran in Almaty, Kazakhstan, this week.
Officials at the Swiss Embassy -- which represents the U.S. interests in Iran because Washington and Tehran do not have formal relations -- said earlier this week they had spoken to Iranian officials.
But having said that, I think that what he did in Damascus and Tehran is really an attempt to hold these two sponsors of Hezbollah to a standard that they are unlikely to keep.
That office, technically part of the Pakistani Embassy, acts as the formal representative of the Iranian government in the absence of diplomatic relations between Washington and Tehran, which were severed after the hostage crisis in 1979.
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In a letter introducing the report, he said resolving suspicions between the United States and Iran over Iran's nuclear program is one of the obstacles to the Obama administration's goal of new engagement between Washington and Tehran.
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Moreover, as my esteemed colleague, Caroline Glick, observed in her Jerusalem Post column last week, if Israel can no longer use the Golan to threaten Syria, Damascus and Tehran may feel free to redouble their subversion in Iraq.
The new report concludes that Iran's decisions are rational and pragmatic, and that Tehran is more susceptible to diplomatic and financial pressure than previously thought.
Speaking before the vote, the representatives of Brazil and Turkey said they had voted against the text because it ran against their efforts to bring about a negotiated solution through the agreement on the Tehran Research Reactor and the related Tehran Declaration of 17 May, which provided a new opportunity for diplomacy.
Iranians officials at the United Nations and in Tehran could not be reached for comment.
And the Tehran bureau of the Dubai-based Arab satellite station Al-Arabiya was ordered closed, the station said.
And if Tehran gets the bomb, we might soon have a nuclear arms race in one of the world's most volatile regions.
Her case studies were the Shah's government in Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua, replaced, respectively by ayatollahs in Tehran and Sandinistas in Managua.
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Iran ultimately balked, but Mr. Elbaradei coordinated closely with Mr. Obama in developing the project, said U.S. officials, and the Egyptian traveled to Tehran to try and cinch the deal.
Earlier this month, Mr Khatami had to set up a special committee to arbitrate a dispute between the Interior Ministry and a conservative watchdog group, after the group had rejected dozens of his closest allies in Tehran and Isfahan, many of them with revolutionary credentials.
He drives again and again to a hilltop to get a clear signal for his cell phone so he can call Tehran and make small talk.
Dozens of Iranians said in interviews and on social-networking sites and blogs that they had participated in the boycott, and a number of bakeries and grocery stores across Tehran, the capital, reported declines in milk and bread sales of as much as 90%.
I've read that it is forbidden in some quarters to play Beethoven and Mozart in Tehran.
Roxanna Saberi is a reporter based in Tehran and she joins us on the line.
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