Read more Iran stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/36/iran.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:01:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74727/israel-hamas-prisoner-swap-may-be-imminent.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGerman Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle won’t say a word about the maybe-impending deal to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, afraid to jinx the proceedings. Westerwelle met with counterpart Avigdor Lieberman in Israel today, in part to discuss the prisoner swap, which German officials are brokering in Cairo. Reports are flying...http://www.newser.com/story/74727/israel-hamas-prisoner-swap-may-be-imminent.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:43:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74573/iran-kicks-off-5-days-of-war-games.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIran today begins large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting the country's nuclear facilities, state television reports, adding that the five-day drill will cover a third of the country, including regions that are home to Iran's nuclear facilities. The drill involves both Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, the paramilitary Basij...http://www.newser.com/story/74573/iran-kicks-off-5-days-of-war-games.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 22 Nov 2009 7:42:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74389/obama-we-will-sanction-iran.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama offered his toughest talk yet on nuclear issues today in a joint press conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. Obama blasted Iran for turning down a deal to turn their nuclear stockpiles into fuel rods, “for internal political reasons, or perhaps because they are stuck in some...http://www.newser.com/story/74389/obama-we-will-sanction-iran.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 7:12:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74238/vanished-persian-army-turns-up-in-sand.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagItalian archaeologists in Egypt claim to have unearthed evidence of a 6th-century BC Persian military folly once thought mythical. Herodotus described an army of 50,000 Persians sent by their emperor, Cambyses, to destroy an oracle that had spoken ill of his ambitions. The army was, according to lore, beset...http://www.newser.com/story/74238/vanished-persian-army-turns-up-in-sand.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 14:21:04 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74244/iran-sentences-5-to-death-for-election-protests.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFive people have been sentenced to death over the unrest that followed Iran's disputed June presidential election, according to state television reports. The report quotes a statement by the Justice Department saying the five sentenced were members of terrorist and armed opposition groups.http://www.newser.com/story/74244/iran-sentences-5-to-death-for-election-protests.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 13:15:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74067/nedas-boyfriend-this-movement-will-never-die.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tag"I still cannot believe it. I think I will see Neda again," the boyfriend of the iconic slain Iranian protester tells the Guardian in his first interview since fleeing the country. "Now I have left Iran, I can cry out," says Caspian Makan, who was tossed in the notorious Evin...http://www.newser.com/story/74067/nedas-boyfriend-this-movement-will-never-die.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 15 Nov 2009 12:48:22 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73920/feds-to-seize-skyscraper-mosques-linked-to-iran.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFederal prosecutors took steps today to seize four US mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in US history, prosecutors filed a civil...http://www.newser.com/story/73920/feds-to-seize-skyscraper-mosques-linked-to-iran.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Nov 2009 17:13:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73774/iran-blasts-oxford-tribute-to-dead-protester.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Iranian regime has condemned Oxford University's offering of a scholarship in the name of a young woman killed in protests earlier this year as a politically motivated move staged by its enemies. The scholarship is named after Neda Soltan, a 26-year-old philosophy student who became the symbol of the...http://www.newser.com/story/73774/iran-blasts-oxford-tribute-to-dead-protester.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 4:25:44 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73616/iran-accuses-american-hikers-of-espionage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe three American hikers detained by Iran in July have been accused of espionage, a senior Iranian prosecutor says. The three, who the US maintains were on a hiking vacation in Iraq when they accidentally strayed across the poorly-marked border, "have been accused" and the investigation is ongoing, he says,...http://www.newser.com/story/73616/iran-accuses-american-hikers-of-espionage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 8:23:11 CST