But other Iranians understand that if the Bush administration decides to engage Iran, Tehran will not be able to establish its own preconditions for talks.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed 32 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian officials said.
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.
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- A senior member of an Iraqi opposition group based in Iran denied U.S. claims that his group's military wing operating in Iraq receives training in Iran, according to Iran's state-run news agency.
Azad University in Tehran, Iran.
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The interim Secretariat of the International Drought Initiative (IDI), the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management - RCUWM (under the auspices of UNESCO), supported by the Iranian Ministry of Energy and the Iranian IHP National Committee in collaboration with a number of UN agencies, international and regional organizations and key national agencies, are organizing the Second International Drought Initiative Meeting in Tehran, Iran.
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The EU last month banned all oil imports from Iran amid growing concern over Tehran's nuclear programme.
Israel and U.S. lawmakers expressed skepticism over renewed negotiations between Iran and international powers over Tehran's nuclear program.
Then they laid on the table an oil-swap deal with Iran that will allow them to ship Kazak oil across the Caspian to Iran and a refinery near Tehran.
It is part of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that also cautions that Tehran still could develop a bomb as early as 2010 if it decided to do so.
He worked closely with the White House in the final months of his tenure at the IAEA to try to forge an agreement with Iran that would have seen Tehran ship out the majority of its low-enriched uranium to a third country.
In 1979 Iran invaded the US embassy in Tehran and held 52 American hostages for 444 days.
Students and others demonstrated in Tehran after judges in Iran passed a death sentence on Hashem Aghajari, an academic who had proposed a Shia Muslim reformation.
But Annan visited Tehran this weekend, and Iran's nuclear program is most certainly a prime item on his agenda.
Word of his planned visit comes as the United States is tightening sanctions on Iran amid persistent tension and concern over Tehran's nuclear program.
Iran says its small research reactor in Tehran, originally supplied by America in the friendlier 1960s, needs new fuel to keep it in operation for the production of medical isotopes.
Those comments were in stark contrast to those of Netanyahu, who suggested to CNN that time is running out for Western sanctions on Iran to have a meaningful effect on Tehran's nuclear program.
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Germany has played a leading role in trying to break the diplomatic impasse over Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is aimed at generating civilian power but Western nations suspect is to develop nuclear weapons.
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Obama was pressed at the meeting about why he didn't use tougher rhetoric regarding Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is for peaceful purposes but the United States and other allies believe is intended for building a weapon.
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.
In 1998, Tehran promised the British Government that Iran would do nothing to implement the fatwa.
The contested election results in Iran have brought thousands onto the streets of Tehran in protest.
DC, and Tehran, argue that America and Iran stand a better chance of resolving their differences over a table than through a megaphone.
Police have not been given permission to use firearms in confronting protesters, Tehran Police Chief Azizollah Rajabpour told Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency.
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World powers, particularly Western nations, suspect that Iran wants to build nuclear weapons, although Tehran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
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It would be the first visit to Tehran by an Egyptian leader since Iran's Islamic revolution and Egypt's signing of the Camp David peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
With the U.S.-dollar financing system out of bounds for Iranian companies, India and Iran have begun a barter system in which Tehran accepts Indian rupees in payment for crude oil.
It quoted a member of Iran's negotiating team as saying: "Iran is interested in buying fuel for the Tehran research reactor within the framework of a clear proposal... we are waiting for the other party's constructive and trust-building response".
The West fears that Iran seeks nuclear weapons - a claim denied by Tehran.
Mr. Ahmadinejad has challenged many in Tehran's political elite and exacerbated Iran's economic ills by spending lavishly on populist development projects.
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