"Evidence of Ashtari's crime was overwhelming, " Iran's intelligence ministry director told Iran's state-run IRNA news agency.
Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, recently recalled 40 of Iran's ambassadors around the world.
Iran's oil exports have plummeted more than 50% as has the value of the rial, Iran's currency.
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"Iran's position against this group is very clear and well known, " according to a statement released by Iran's mission to the United Nations.
Iran's customers in Europe are among the weakest economies in the EU. And any significant price rise would only benefit Iran's exports elsewhere.
Meanwhile, prominent figures, many of whom were part of Iran's Islamic revolution 30 years ago, issued conflicting statements, a sign that Iran's leadership was far from unified.
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And ever since the 17th century, when Iran's Safavid dynasty made the country irrevocably Shia, nearby Sunni states have fretted about Iran's influence on their Shia minorities.
Iran's attorney general, Hojjatoleslam Dorri Najafabadi, said last month that Saberi's case "will go through its legal process like other cases, " according to Iran's unofficial Shahab news Web site.
Iran's economy is in trouble, facing 20 percent inflation, sluggish growth, and an uncertain job market, despite the windfall in oil revenue that has come Iran's way in recent years.
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to comment on U.S. efforts to counter Iran's nuclear program, but said that the focus of international talks was Iran's flouting of international requirements.
Obama's willingness to place Israel's nuclear program on the international agenda next to Iran's is par for the course of his utterly failed policy for contending with Iran's nuclear program.
This latest controversy over Iran's nuclear program comes four months after Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, swept into office by voters unhappy with a lack of jobs and a weak economy.
American officials have previously cast doubt on Iran's ability to extract useful intelligence from the captured spy plane, and have said that reverse-engineering a copy would be beyond Iran's technological capability.
Unfortunately, the probability that in the foreseeable future Iran's economic problems will cause the regime to moderate its policies or bring regime opponents to power in Iran's parliament is not high.
Iran's top negotiator, Saeed Jalili, struck a nuanced position after the Baghdad talks, asserting Iran's right to pursue peaceful nuclear energy but also saying that progress had been made during the meeting.
On Thursday, Iran's central bank devalued the rial by 8% against the dollar and ordered all currency-exchange shops to adhere to the official rate or be shut down, according to Iran's official media.
Officials are looking to see whether the revelations about covert U.S. efforts to spy on and sabotage Iran's nuclear program will create new hurdles for upcoming negotiations this month on Iran's nuclear program.
Meanwhile, the Swiss ambassador to Iran -- the protecting power of the U.S. in Iran -- was called into the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to hear Iranian complaints regarding U.S. interference in Iran's election process, P.
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Obama could also step up to the microphone to summarize, for both Americans and the world public, the astounding extent to which Iran's regime has been expanding its networks and spilling Iran's resources on shady projects around the globe.
While Britain, Germany and France may argue that Iran's new co-operativeness should be rewarded, America is expected to call for Iran's breaches of the NPT to be reported to the United Nations Security Council (which can choose to impose sanctions).
In Iran's case, it is quite complicated because the United States had expressed some appreciation and welcoming of Iran's cooperation in the early stages of this war against terrorism and indeed its help in setting out the post-Taliban government for Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, America, China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany announced that they would no longer tolerate Iran's refusal to give a yes or a no to a package of incentives and potential punishments they hoped would stop Iran's enrichment of uranium.
Today, operating through various foundations and front companies, the family is also believed to control one of Iran's biggest oil engineering companies, a plant assembling Daewoo automobiles, and Iran's best private airline (though the Rafsanjanis insist they do not own these assets).
The US and EU have placed restrictions on dealings with Iran's Central Bank - the only official channel for Iranians to transfer money abroad - and Swift, the body that handles global banking transactions, has cut Iran's banks out of its system.
The other is an agreement on a proposal to take Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) and send it to Russia and France for conversion into fuel rods for use in Iran's small research reactor in Tehran, which produces isotopes for cancer treatment.
Iran and the West have mutual interests in the stability of Iran's neighbors, Iraq and Afghanistan, he argued, and Iran would like the foreign investment that would come with full Western acceptance, which might depend on a resolution to Iran's controversial nuclear program.
In a shocking breach of protocol and in apparent violation of the law, the man who until a few months ago stood at the helm of Israel's efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions attempted to take Israel's military option for striking Iran's nuclear installations off the table.
In fact, Mr Rafsanjani, who was Iran's president between 1989 and 1997 and had hoped to be speaker, had become such a liability to his supporters that he had to quit to save the Servants of Construction, Iran's first pro-reform faction, which he helped to create in 1996.
Ahead of the meeting an EU official speaking for the six world powers said Friday the onus was on Iran to engage on the six-nation offer, which foresees a lifting of sanctions on Iran's gold and petrochemical trade but keeps penalties crippling Iran's oil sales and economy in place.
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