“Tehran” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Thursday about Iran amid tensions over the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist, but the White House refused to comment on any role by Israel even as it continued to deny U.S. involvement. (more)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV broadcast video Thursday of what it said was the high-tech U.S. drone that Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week, and lodged a diplomatic complaint over the violation of its airspace. (more)

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU foreign ministers failed Thursday to reach an agreement to impose an oil embargo against Iran — a measure that some argued would have choked off funding for Iran’s alleged program to develop nuclear weapons. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring himself “deeply disturbed” by the storming of the British Embassy in Tehran, President Barack Obama strongly urged the Iranian government to hold those responsible to account. (more)

Two Americans jailed in Iran as spies were released from Tehran’s prison on Wednesday after more than two years in custody. (more)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The lawyer for two Americans jailed as spies in Iran said they will be released Wednesday after more than two years in custody following a court approval of a $1 million bail deal. (more)

Iran’s Islamic regime is using “child soldiers” to suppress anti-government demonstrations, a tactic that could breach international law forbidding the use of underage combatants, human rights activists have told the Observer. (more)

VIENNA (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Monday he cannot guarantee that Iran is not trying to develop atomic arms, comments that reflect the lack of progress in his attempts to probe Tehran’s nuclear secrecy. (more)

Tuesday is a very important day. It is the day that a new documentary, “Iranium,” will be screened across the United States and Canada, and on Capitol Hill. (more)

Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt, of November 25, 2010. According to the article, an agreement between the two countries was signed during the last visit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Tehran on October19, 2010. The previously undisclosed contract provides for the establishment of a jointly operated military base in Venezuela, and the joint development of ground-to-ground missiles. (more)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — In Tehran’s northern suburbs, 24-year-old Sepehr Shaygan is nursing a stubborn headache he blames on the smog. His mother puts on a surgical mask to do the shopping for a barbecue on the roof. (more)

There is a country big enough to swallow the territories of Texas and France five times over. It is the ninth-largest nation in the world, bigger than Western Europe. Lazy journalists and the liberal media have colored what Westerners know about Kazakhstan, but this holiday season the world owes that young nation a huge debt of gratitude. Kazakhstan has protected us from a nuclear nightmare. (more)

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has set a Feb. 6 trial date for three Americans arrested more than a year ago along the Iraqi border and charged with spying. (more)

Joel Rosenberg is the author of the new novel, “The Twelfth Imam.” (more)

TEHRAN — Two American hikers held in Iranian custody for nearly 15 months as well as a companion released in September who is now back in the United States will be tried Nov. 6 on spying accusations, a lawyer for the three confirmed Wednesday. (more)

TEHRAN, Iran — The web sites of two senior clerics have been blocked by government censors, a possible sign of a hardening political divide at the highest level of Iran’s religious establishment. (more)

Earlier this month, while motorcades zoomed past our downtown Washington office carrying important dignitaries to supposedly important meetings, you may have noticed that The Daily Caller spared barely a word covering the allegedly new and improved Middle East peace process. And last week, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in the Middle East to further those peace talks, you would have learned little about it by reading TheDC. (more)

Hillary Clinton has been telling everyone that organising her daughter Chelsea’s wedding was the most stressful thing she’d done in some time. (more)

Iran has released an American woman held for more than a year on suspicion of spying, reports from Iran say. (more)

At least five Iranian companies in Afghanistan’s capital are using their offices covertly to finance Taliban militants in provinces near Kabul, according to a Sunday Times investigation. (more)