Iran confirms expulsion of German diplomat
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Iran has expelled a German diplomat for  "non-diplomatic activities," the Iranian Foreign Ministry said  on Sunday, in what may be retaliation for the expulsion of an  Iranian diplomat from Germany in July.
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An exiled Iranian opposition group claims that Iran obtained weapons-grade uranium and a design for a nuclear bomb from a Pakistani scientist.
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The Afghan government expelled two senior European diplomats Thursday on accusations they held unauthorized meetings with Taliban militants
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Iran agrees to suspend its uranium enrichment programme as part of deal with EU, diplomats are quoted as saying.
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Iran has released an Iranian-American academic from prison but judiciary officials said he was not free to leave the country, the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.
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Iranian diplomat Fereidoun Jahani,  kidnapped in Iraq last month, has been released, Iran's state  television reported on Monday.
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BAGHDAD: An Iranian diplomat was freed on Monday after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 19 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad was kidnapped on Sunday and said it held U.S. forces responsible for his safety, Iran's students news agency ISNA reported.
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An Iranian detained in northern Iraq more than three years ago has been released by U.S. authorities, Iran's ambassador said Wednesday.
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A senior U.S. diplomat accused Iran on Tuesday of transferring weapons to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan &#151; the most direct comments yet on the issue by a ranking American official.
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Iran on Monday confirmed there was an "incident" between Iranian and U.S. ships but gave no details, an Iranian news agency reported, after Washington said Iranian vessels threatened their ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Afghanistan has ordered the expulsion of a Briton working for the EU and an Irishman working for the United Nations, accusing them of posing a threat to national security, officials and diplomats said on Tuesday.
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Iran is suspended from all international football activity because of government interference.
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Iran officially confirmed Sunday that it is holding an Iranian-American peace activist, the fourth dual citizen the country has detained in recent months.
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Sweden said on Friday it had expelled a foreign diplomat, identified by a newspaper as a Libyan who had spied on his countrymen living in the Nordic state. "I can confirm that a diplomat has been asked to leave the country and that he has left the country," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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TEHRAN - An American scholar accused of promoting revolution in Iran has been allowed to leave the country and reunite with her family in Austria, ending months of protests by human-rights groups and heated exchanges between Tehran and Washington.
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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator canceled on Friday a trip to a conference in Germany where U.N. officials had hoped talks with European policy makers would secure a "time out" in a row over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.