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TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will present President Donald Trump with a detailed plan for how to change or scrap the Iran nuclear deal at a meeting between the two leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly Monday.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro met Sunday with prominent Middle East presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Hassan Rouhani of Iran this weekend, seeking support amid a global outcry against his regime.

After repeatedly boasting that it could restart weapons-grade uranium production in a matter of days, Iran continued to make a mockery of President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal by flatly rejecting a U.S. demand for United Nations inspection of Iranian military bases.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian journalist Abed al-Bary Atwan, editor-in-chief of the electronic publication Al Rai Al Youm, which maintains positive connections with senior Hamas figures and senior Iranian officials, has written an analysis in response to comments from Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, about Iran’s support for Hamas, saying that Hamas has decided on a political position, returning to the axis of resistance led by Iran.

The Iranian Ministry of Education on Wednesday released a list of attributes that will disqualify potential teachers, including illnesses, unattractive features, personal habits, and even speaking with “strong accents.” Many of the guidelines are aimed at excluding female teachers.

The chief of Iran’s atomic energy agency provided further testimony to the anemic nature of Barack Obama’s nuclear deal by stating on Tuesday that Iran could resume enriching uranium within “at most five days” if it desires.

Iran’s new communications minister said Tuesday that negotiations were underway with Twitter to unblock the service, which has been banned for years despite being used even by the country’s supreme leader.

Nikki Haley urged the international community Tuesday not to let Iran “use the nuclear deal to hold the world hostage.”

President Hassan Rouhani warned on Tuesday that Iran could abandon its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers within hours if the United States keeps on imposing new sanctions.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani put forward a new cabinet lineup on Tuesday that was immediately criticized by reformists for its lack of women and young people.

Amid new international sanctions, North Korea’s “No. 2” official embarked on a 10-day visit to Iran, a move that could result in the two sides expanding their ties.

A senior Hamas delegation arrived Friday morning in Tehran for an official visit. The delegation includes, among others, senior Hamas figure Izzat al-Rishq and head of the Hamas administration Saleh al-Arouri, who was forced to leave Qatar for Lebanon, reportedly due to “external pressures” following several Arab countries’ boycott of Qatar.

Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang, 37, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by Iran over the weekend, on charges of spying for the U.S. government.

Women in Iran are defying the Iranian regime’s law that mandates wearing a hijab (roo sari or chador, which means “head covering”) while driving by letting the headscarves rest on their shoulders instead of on their heads while in their vehicles.

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said his country wants to bolster ties with Qatar and rejected a Saudi-led blockade of the Gulf Arab emirate.

A week after being heavily criticized by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani was heckled Friday during an annual pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran, with protesters comparing him to a former state head who was impeached and later exiled.

Iran’s clerical regime issued an edict earlier this month effectively banning Zumba – a popular Latin-inspired dance class that includes music from Latin America – from the country for contravening “Islamic ideology.”

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed sympathy for the victims of a terror attack in Iran that killed 13 people, but issued a barbed warning that the country was reaping what it sowed.

Cleric Ebrahim Raisi, who emerged as the leading rival to incumbent Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the recent election, has accused Rouhani of using vote fraud to retain his office. Raisi demanded a full investigation.

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On Monday, Iran responded to President Trump’s tour of the Middle East and anti-terrorism speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by accusing the United States of “Iranophobia.” Iran also said the U.S. was arming “dangerous terrorists” by selling weapons to Saudi Arabia.

WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signaled on Saturday that a renewal of US-Iranian talks was likely in the future, telling reporters in Riyadh that they would take place when the time was right.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani won re-election by a wide margin Saturday, giving the moderate cleric a second four-year term to see out his agenda pushing for greater freedoms and outreach to the wider world.

On Friday, Iran will hold its 12th presidential election, where approximately 55 million eligible Iranians will have the opportunity to cast their ballots for either incumbent “reformist” President Hassan Rouhani or hardliner Ebrahim Raisi (also known as Ebrahim Rais os-Sadati), a close friend of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and his understudy.

As tensions mount in the Middle East, one cannot help but wonder whether eschatological factors are playing out or whether nations looking to influence outcomes in a positive way still have roles to play. Those of us unwilling yet to accept end-of-world prophecies prefer the emphasis be put upon the latter.

Iran’s presidential election may turn on turnout. Historically, the more Iranians who cast ballots, the greater the chance a reformist or a moderate like incumbent President Hassan Rouhani will be elected.

In a speech to graduating cadets of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is loyal to the ayatollahs rather than the secular government, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened harsh consequences for protesters who disrupt the presidential election in two weeks.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ran into an unexpectedly large and angry protest over Iran’s slow economy during a campaign stop on Sunday, producing a viral video eagerly promoted by the supporters of rival candidates.

(AFP) TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s armed forces warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani against discussing the country’s defense program after he criticized the anti-Israel slogans written on the side of ballistic missiles, local media reported on Saturday.

Iran’s judiciary has reportedly blocked Instagram Live and the voice calls feature from Telegram ahead of the country’s May 19 presidential elections.

A hard-line candidate in Iran’s upcoming presidential election says the United States should be made to fear Iran so that it will back off on sanctions and threats.

Iran’s former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that he won’t endorse other candidates in next month’s election, after he and his deputy were barred from running.

U.S. and Iranian officials traded criticisms over compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal on Thursday, following Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s certification to Congress that Iran was following the letter of the deal but could still merit sanctions for its “alarming ongoing provocations” across the Middle East, including sponsorship of terrorism.

Iran arrested more than thirty men between the ages of 16 and 30 at a private party in Isfahan last week, all of whom are suspected of being homosexuals.

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a big splash with his theatrical eleventh-hour entry into the 2017 presidential race, with some Iranian analysts immediately declaring him the third man in a three-way race (which has about 1,600 also-rans).