<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Tehran: News &amp; Videos about Tehran - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Tehran</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Tehran from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:08:02 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Tehran: News &amp; Videos about Tehran - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Tehran</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Tehran from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Danish journalism student arrested in Iran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/07/iran.danish.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/07/iran.danish.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Danish journalism student has been arrested in Iran, the Danish Foreign Ministry told CNN on Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>1979 hostage crisis still casts pall on U.S.-Iran relations</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/04/iran.hostage.anniversary/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/04/iran.hostage.anniversary/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thirty years ago Wednesday, Iranian student revolutionaries climbed over the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized dozens of Americans, whom they ultimately held hostage for 444 days.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's new chant is 'Death to no one!'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/03/dabashi.hostage.crisis.anniversary/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/03/dabashi.hostage.crisis.anniversary/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>November 4 is the 30th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis, a turning point in Iranian history, in the geopolitics of the region and in the troubled history of U.S.-Iran relations.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Nuclear inspectors visit newly revealed Iran plant</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/25/iran.nuclear.inspection/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/25/iran.nuclear.inspection/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>United Nations-backed nuclear inspectors on Sunday visited a newly disclosed Iranian nuclear facility near the city of Qom, Iranian media has reported.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>3 Iranians tied to election protests get death sentences</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/11/iran.death.sentences/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/11/iran.death.sentences/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Three Iranians have been tentatively sentenced to death in connection with post-election protest activities, according to semi-official state media.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Protesters chant 'death to dictator' at annual Tehran rally</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/18/iran.moussavi.quds/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/18/iran.moussavi.quds/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Large crowds gathered in the Iranian capital Friday to march in an annual pro-Palestinian rally, among them thousands of green-clad supporters of the opposition movement, according to CNN sources in Tehran.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian opposition leader's office raided, shut down</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/08/iran.karrubi.raid/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/08/iran.karrubi.raid/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iranian authorities raided and shut down the offices of opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi, an Iranian news agency reported Tuesday, one day after another prominent reformer's office was raided.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran media: Officials to probe secret burial claim</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/30/iran.secret.graves/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/30/iran.secret.graves/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>City officials in Tehran have agreed to investigate claims that bodies of protesters killed in the unrest that followed Iran's disputed presidential election were secretly buried in the nation's largest cemetery, Iranian media reported Sunday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Security forces, protesters face off in Iran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/30/neda.iran.memorial.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/30/neda.iran.memorial.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Security forces in Iran on Thursday confronted thousands of protesting Iranians across the city, first at a cemetery and later at a prayer venue and near a government building, witnesses and news reports said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reporter held for 21 days in Iranian jails</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/09/iran.detained.journalist/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/09/iran.detained.journalist/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iason Athanasiadis' ordeal began at the airport, shortly after he checked in for his flight to leave Tehran.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's election authority: Partial recount shows election valid</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/30/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/30/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Saying it had completed an investigation into alleged voter irregularities, Iran's election authority on Monday stood by its findings that gave hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an overwhelming victory and sparked more than two weeks of chaos in the streets.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thousands demonstrate silently in Tehran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.demonstration/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.demonstration/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Watched closely by police, several thousand protesters moved slowly down a major Tehran thoroughfare Sunday in the first demonstration over the country's disputed presidential election that authorities have allowed in days.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian minister blames Britain, U.S. for unrest</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.election.britain/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.election.britain/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran's intelligence minister Sunday blamed Western powers for stirring up protests over its disputed presidential election, singling out Britain and saying the British Embassy in Tehran "played a heavy role in the recent disturbances."</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Violence flares again in Tehran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Security forces wielding clubs and firing weapons beat back hundreds of would-be demonstrators who had flocked to a square in the capital on Wednesday to continue protests against an election they have denounced as fraudulent, witnesses told CNN.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>American woman describes Tehran ordeal: 'I was terrified'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/iran.woman.detained/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/iran.woman.detained/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Inspired by images of Iranians taking to the streets to support the opposition presidential candidate, Michelle May decided to head to Tehran.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analysis: Why is Iran so upset with Britain?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.uk.oakely.analysis/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.uk.oakely.analysis/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The contested election results in Iran have brought thousands onto the streets of Tehran in protest. So why have the voices of two of Iran's most prominent critics -- the United States and its leading ally the UK -- so far been comparatively muted in their support of the protesters and in their criticisms of the regime?</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Riot police confront protesters in Tehran, witnesses say</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A defiant and chaotic protest sprouted in and around a public square Monday despite a warning by Iran's Revolutionary Guard against the kind of street demonstrations that have roiled Iran for more than a week, witnesses said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>From Iranian rooftops, a view of protest and violence</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.protest.stories/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.protest.stories/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>When the sun went down, their voices did not.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran slams 'meddling West' over election</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.election.criticism/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.election.criticism/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran stepped up allegations Monday against the West of "meddling" in its disputed presidential election even as its election authority reportedly acknowledged that the number of ballots cast in dozens of cities exceeded the number of eligible voters in those areas.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Videos, pictures offer chilling glimpses of Iran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/21/videos.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/21/videos.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A harrowing video surfaced late Saturday of an apparent home invasion by Iranian security forces that conveyed the fear and chaos in Tehran after a day of brutal crackdown on protesters.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chaos prevails as protesters, police clash in Iranian capital</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/20/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/20/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thousands of defiant protesters swept again Saturday into the streets of the Iranian capital, where they clashed with police armed with batons, tear gas and water cannons.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rallies in France, Germany, U.S. support Iranian demonstrators</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/20/world.reaction.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/20/world.reaction.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Demonstrators gathered in major cities in France, the United States and Germany on Saturday to condemn Iran's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tehran.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>More protests planned in Iran as signs of crackdown emerge</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/19/iran.speech.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/19/iran.speech.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hours after supreme leader Ali Khamenei warned fellow Iranians against continued protests of last week's official election results, plans for further demonstrations appeared to move forward Friday as signs of tightened security emerged.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Witnesses describe violence in Iran as protesters stand firm</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/17/iran.eyewitnesses/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/17/iran.eyewitnesses/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Defying threats of arrest or worse, witnesses to protests in Iran are managing to leak reports of violence after the country's disputed presidential elections.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran: Foreign media supporting 'hooligans'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/17/iran.journalists/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/17/iran.journalists/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran on Wednesday accused international journalists in the country of being the "mouthpiece" of "hooligans" who have created unrest at post-election rallies in Tehran.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rival demonstrations fill Tehran streets</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/16/iran.elections.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/16/iran.elections.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his main political rival attended demonstrations at separate locations in Tehran on Tuesday in the wake of last week's disputed presidential election.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran bans international journalists from covering rallies</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/16/iran.journalists.banned/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/16/iran.journalists.banned/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran's government Tuesday banned international media from covering rallies in Tehran being held in the wake of last week's disputed presidential election.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hatred, chaos and savage beatings in Tehran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.eyewitness/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.eyewitness/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>He was surrounded and pleading for them to stop but six men with clubs, batons and metal rods kept battering a young Iranian man with ruthless force. The swing that keeps replaying in my head was the black baton that smashed the man in the skull behind his left ear.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Clashes in Iran reveal deep divide</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.protests.scene/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.protests.scene/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A group of 20 to 30 men, carrying clubs and metal pipes, banged on the door of an apartment building in a Tehran neighborhood.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Return to Tehran a memorable journey</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/01/01/tehran.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/01/01/tehran.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In summer, I flew from Istanbul's Ataturk Airport to Tehran's Khomeini Airport to film a public television show on Iran. For an American, it was eye-opening from the first moment. When the pilot said, "We're taking this plane to Tehran," nobody was alarmed.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. student arrested in Tehran while working on thesis project</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/22/iran.us.student.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/22/iran.us.student.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Officials in the United States are looking into the recent arrest of an Iranian-American student in Tehran who was working on a research project on women's rights in Iran.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Islamic Republic's Women at the Wheel 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1847151,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1847151,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Iran's women taxi drivers find an economic opportunity in their society's gender divide</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Israel Preparing for Iran Strike</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1830203,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1830203,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Israel is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran's nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran's atomic program</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Iran Won't Budge on Nukes
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829750,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829750,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The latest Western offer to resolve the nuclear standoff gets no response. But a liberal critic of the Tehran regime, who once ran the Shah's nuclear program, backs Iran's defiance</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran: Not Giving Up Nuclear Rights</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829025,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829025,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Iran will not give up "a single iota of its nuclear rights," the country's president said Saturday, rebuffing an informal deadline to stop expanding uranium enrichment or face more sanctions</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Rival for Iran's Ahmadinejad</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1723250,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1723250,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In an interview with TIME, the mayor of Tehran, Mohammed-Baqer Qalibaf, talks about renewing the revolution and his difference of "taste" with the President</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Iran's Poll Results Mean</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1722817,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1722817,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A big turnout and conservative win may be good news for Ahmadinejad, but all was not lost for moderates

</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McLaughlin: NIE is not as decisive as it may seem</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/10/mclaughlin.commentary/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/10/mclaughlin.commentary/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Now that the furor over the recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran has died down a bit, it's worth reflecting on the significance of this episode -- what it tells us about the intelligence community, about the arcane world of "national estimates," and about their impact on national policy.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: Iran is Still Dangerous</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1690588,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1690588,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Despite an intelligence report on Iran's nuclear program, President Bush said Tuesday that the international community should continue to pressure the nation</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ottawa: Iran expels Canadian ambassador</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/03/canada.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/03/canada.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran has expelled Canada's ambassador, Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier said Monday in a statement.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. losing grip on Iran nuke plan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/15/iran.nuclear/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/15/iran.nuclear/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog admitted Thursday it was no longer in touch with how Iran's nuclear program was developing, even as Tehran continues its enrichment activities in defiance of sanctions.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian-American freed in Tehran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/20/iran.american/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/20/iran.american/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American social scientist who has been held in Iran since May, has been released from Tehran's Evin Prison, according to his employer.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Paris Talks Tough on Iran</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1662749,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1662749,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The French government's note of alarm is  directed not solely towards Tehran, but Russia and China too</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's Romance of Nicaragua</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1660500,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1660500,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Visits with Ahmadinejad and an expensive seaport project are just a few signs of a growing alliance between the Central American nation and Washington's nemesis</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran, IAEA see progress on nuclear talks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/21/iran.nuclear.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/21/iran.nuclear.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency both said on Tuesday they had made progress in talks about Tehran's offer of more transparency aimed at defusing a row over the Iranian nuclear program.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jailed U.S. Academic in Iran Freed</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1654767,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1654767,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A detained Iranian-American academic accused of conspiring against the government was freed on bail Tuesday from a Tehran prison</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Iran Is Talking</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1646792,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1646792,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Tehran is doing just enough to look cooperative on Iraq and its own nuclear program. But real progress is another matter</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran to decide on detained Americans</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/12/iran.detained/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/12/iran.detained/index.html</guid><description>As Tehran presses for the release of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq, Iran's top judiciary spokesman announced Tuesday that three detained Iranian-Americans will be formally indicted or freed by the end of the week, according to Iranian media reports.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian official: U.S. detainees sent to interfere in Tehran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/02/iran.larijani/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/02/iran.larijani/index.html</guid><description>The United States was using some of the four Iranian-Americans detained by Tehran to meddle in Iranian affairs and is trying to cover it up, Tehran's security chief charged Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. tells Iran face to face: Stop supporting militias</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/28/iran.us.talks/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/28/iran.us.talks/index.html</guid><description>The United States told Iran on Monday its support for militias fighting in Iraq needs to cease, said Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 06:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nobel laureate: Iranian-Americans political prisoners</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/25/nobellaureate.iran/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/25/nobellaureate.iran/index.html</guid><description>An Iranian-American woman detained in Tehran is being held illegally and has been repeatedly denied access to an attorney, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi told CNN on Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 15:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sources: Iran imprisons 4th Iranian-American</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/23/iran.detentions/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/23/iran.detentions/index.html</guid><description>Iran recently imprisoned a fourth person of dual Iranian and American citizenship, the man's family and colleagues told CNN on Wednesday</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 13:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK sailors reunited with families</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/05/iran.sailors/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/05/iran.sailors/index.html</guid><description>Fifteen British service members detained last month in Iran have been reunited with their families after flying home from Tehran.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Britons leave Tehran for home</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/04/iran.sailors/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/04/iran.sailors/index.html</guid><description>The 15 British service members held in Iranian custody for nearly two weeks flew out of Tehran Thursday aboard a British Airways jet bound for London, according to Tehran's Mehrabad Airport flight information.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran plane crash kills dozens</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/27/iran.planecrash/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/27/iran.planecrash/index.html</guid><description>An Iranian military plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Tehran Monday morning, state-run IRINN television reported, killing 36 servicemen.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil recoups losses</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/30/markets/oil_eia/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/30/markets/oil_eia/index.htm</guid><description>Oil prices ended Wednesday higher, just over $70 a barrel, after falling below $69 earlier in the session on a government report saying supplies of crude oil and gasoline posted a surprise build.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's president calls for TV debate with Bush </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/29/iran.nuclear/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/29/iran.nuclear/index.html</guid><description>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on U.S. President George W. Bush to participate in a "direct television debate with us," so Iran can voice its point of view on how to end problems in the world.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Russia still seeks Iran solution</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/23/iran.russia/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/23/iran.russia/index.html</guid><description>Russia has said it will continue to probe avenues for diplomatic cooperation with Iran over its nuclear program but France said that uranium enrichment must be suspended before talks resume.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran says it's willing to resume talks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/22/iran.inspectors/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/22/iran.inspectors/index.html</guid><description>The Iranian government has provided a detailed written response to a package of incentives offered by the United States and other Western nations for Tehran to roll back its nuclear program.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>No quick Iranian reply on nuclear offer</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/29/russia.rice/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/29/russia.rice/index.html</guid><description>Iran and the world's leading industrialized democracies staked out conflicting positions Thursday on when Tehran should respond to a U.N. proposal concerning the country's nuclear program.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran: Nuclear plan 'positive' but 'ambiguous'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/06/iran.nuclear/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/06/iran.nuclear/index.html</guid><description>Iran's top nuclear negotiator says a proposal by the world's biggest powers to curtail Tehran's uranium enrichment program contains "positive steps" but also "ambiguities."</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran: EU offer 'walnuts for gold'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/17/iran.nuclear/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/17/iran.nuclear/index.html</guid><description>Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rejected a possible European offer for incentives, including a light-water nuclear reactor, in return for giving up uranium-enrichment program.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 10:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Letter may signal change in debate</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/09/btsc.raman.iranletter/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/09/btsc.raman.iranletter/index.html</guid><description>You sometimes have to hear news about Iran from outside the country, and yesterday was no exception. Details of the historic letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to President George W. Bush trickled in from journalists outside Iran.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 18:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranians happy to be in the nuclear club</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/25/btsc.raman/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/25/btsc.raman/index.html</guid><description>The streets of Tehran are packed with people and traffic.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Playing the Oil Card</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/17/8374386/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/17/8374386/index.htm</guid><description> WASHINGTON AND TEHRAN don't agree on much these days. But in their conflict over Iran's nuclear program, both seem willing to use oil as a political weapon. The U.S. believes that sanctions on Ira... </description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian leader: U.S. opposes Tehran's progress </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/14/iran.nuclear/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/14/iran.nuclear/index.html</guid><description>Iran's president on Friday slammed the United States and other countries as "against the advancement of technology and science" in his country, defending the nuclear program that has caused a firestorm of international controversy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran talks bring no breakthrough</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/03/iran.nuclear/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/03/iran.nuclear/index.html</guid><description>Talks between Iran's top nuclear negotiator and key European foreign ministers ended Friday without a breakthrough on Tehran's nuclear ambitions, European officials said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Russia, Iran talks break up</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/21/iran.europe/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/21/iran.europe/index.html</guid><description>Russian and Iranian officials have ended two days of talks on a Russian offer to enrich uranium for Iran, and the delegation from Tehran left for the airport, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported, citing an Iranian official.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran's New Hand</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/28/iran.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/28/iran.tm/index.html</guid><description>Hard-liner is not a nice word, even for hard-liners. So, immediately after his stunning landslide last week, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that as Iran's new President, he would not be shutting Iran off from the rest of the world or curtailing the Internet or taking the country back to the 9th century.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New bid to break Iran nuke impasse</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/17/iran.nukes/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/17/iran.nukes/index.html</guid><description>British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and his counterparts from France and Germany will meet an Iranian delegation next week to try to break the impasse over Tehran's nuclear program, Straw said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2005 00:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran and UK in row over airport</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/05/01/iran.airport/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/05/01/iran.airport/index.html</guid><description>Hardline Iranian politicians called on the government on Sunday to sever all diplomatic ties with Britain in a rapidly escalating row over the opening of a new airport serving Tehran.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 09:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. accuses Iran of nuke breaches</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/02/us.iran/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/02/us.iran/index.html</guid><description>The United States accused Iran of "cynically" pursuing nuclear weapons, saying Tehran's claims that its aims were peaceful constituted willful deceit of the world and required action by the U.N. Security Council.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran Looks East</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/02/21/8251742/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/02/21/8251742/index.htm</guid><description>It was 1978, and thousands of students were rampaging through the streets of Tehran, burning barricades and chanting their vision of a radical Islamic republic that would transform Iran forever. Ha...</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iranian group claims 'new' nuke facility in Tehran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/17/iran.nuclear/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/17/iran.nuclear/index.html</guid><description>An Iranian opposition group says it has disclosed the location of what it claims is a newly discovered nuclear weapons research facility in Tehran.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nuclear report casts doubt on Iran's centrifuges</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/01/nuclear.iran/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/01/nuclear.iran/index.html</guid><description>A classified report on Iran's nuclear program raises serious questions and concerns about Tehran's activities, casting doubt on the Islamic republic's explanation for how centrifuge parts became contaminated with highly enriched uranium.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deadly earthquake rocks Iran</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/28/iran.quake/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/28/iran.quake/index.html</guid><description>A strong earthquake registering 6.3 magnitude has killed at least 23 people and injured dozens of others in northern Iran, officials said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2004 13:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trains return to Iran blast site</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/20/iran.train/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/20/iran.train/index.html</guid><description>Train service has resumed around the site in northeastern Iran where more than 300 people were killed and hundreds  injured in an exposition two days earlier.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Early lead for Iran conservatives</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/20/iran.elections/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/20/iran.elections/index.html</guid><description>Initial results in controversial parliamentary elections in Iran show that Islamic conservatives are winning most of the seats.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2004 05:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Aid eases Iran quake disease fears</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/02/iran.quake/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/02/iran.quake/index.html</guid><description>Fears of an outbreak of disease following the devastating earthquake in the Iranian city of Bam are abating as international aid pours into the affected area.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:23:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: Iran quake relief reflects no policy change</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/02/elec04.prez.bush.iran/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/02/elec04.prez.bush.iran/index.html</guid><description>President Bush says U.S. humanitarian assistance to Iranian quake victims doesn't signify an easing of relations with Tehran, and he demanded the Islamic nation's leaders hand over captured al Qaeda operatives and "abandon their nuclear weapons program."</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: Quake relief not a sign of Iran policy change</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/01/bush.iran/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/01/bush.iran/index.html</guid><description>President Bush said U.S. humanitarian assistance to Iranian quake victims doesn't signify an easing of relations with Tehran, and he demanded the Islamic nation's leaders hand over captured al Qaeda operatives and "abandon their nuclear weapons program."</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2004 23:11:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>