Mashhad
(2000 pop. 2 million). Mashhad (Mashad, Meshed), a city in northeastern Iran in the province of Khorasan, is located in the Kashaf River valley near the borders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan...
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Munich (dpa) - Iran is considering building a magnetic levitation
train line to transport pilgrims from Tehran to one of the country's
main religious sites, a German enginee...
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Iran's supreme leader gave his backing Wednesday to U.S.-Iran talks about Iraq's security. But he took a tough line, insisting the meeting will deal only with fixing American policies in Iraq, not ...
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A man convicted of adultery was stoned to death last week in a village in northern Iran, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday, the first time in years that the country has confirmed such an execution...
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Today is Saturday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2007. There are 121 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.On this date:...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a host of claims about Iran's domestic and foreign policy in his appearances in New York Monday. The Associated Press compares his claims to what is indep...
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BERLIN, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Iran is talking to the Taliban
but has a "very ambivalent" attitude towards al Qaeda, a third
major foe of the United States, a top European security official
said. Teh...
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Iranian officials told Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday that only a U.S. pullout would bring peace to his nation and claimed the Tehran government was doing its best to help stabili...
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A suicide bomber struck a busy commercial center in a major Shiite city south of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens as the streets were packed with shoppers and peop...
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The American ambassador scolded his Iranian counterpart in a groundbreaking meeting Tuesday for Tehran's alleged arming and training of Shiite militias. But he agreed to set up a subcommittee with ...
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Mashhad
Iran considering maglev train link for pilgrims
