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Hasan Rowhani, the new Iranian president (Reuters)

Iran's support of Syria under threat video

Syria is the issue dominating discussion at the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland.

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Hasan Rowhani speaks to the media following a visit to the Khomeini mausoleum (Reuters)

Revolutionary Guard backs Rowhani

Like the rest of Iran's ruling Islamic establishment, the Guard is for the moment embracing Rowhani.

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Hasan Rowhani waves to supporters in the central Iranian city of Shiraz (Reuters)

Moderate cleric wins Iran's president vote video

Moderate cleric Hasan Rowhani was declared the winner of Iran's presidential vote on Saturday after gaining support among many reform-minded Iranians.

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Iranian men wait in line to vote at a polling booth in Qom, 120km south of Tehran (Reuters)

Iran's reformers seek election rebound

Reform-minded Iranians who have faced years of crackdowns looked Friday to claw back a bit of ground in the presidential election.

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Supporters carry Iranian presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf (Reuters)

Polls open in Iran presidential election video

As polls opened in Iran, arguments over whether to boycott the ballot are in full swing among many liberal-leaning Iranians.

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Iranians will vote Friday to find a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Google detects Iranian hackers

Google said Wednesday that it has discovered and stopped a series of attempts to hack the accounts of thousands of Iranians.

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Israel considers Iran to be its most dangerous enemy (Reuters)

Israel blames cyber attacks on Iran

Israel's prime minister said Sunday there has been a "significant rise" in cyberattacks on Israel by Iran.

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Iranian Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims walk past a member of Iraq's security personnel in Kerbala. A suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus carrying Iranian Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in Iraq on Friday, killing at least nine people in an attack likely carried out by Sunni Muslim insurgents trying to ignite sectarian conflict (Reuters)

Suicide blasts kill 19 in Iraq

Suicide attackers rammed car bombs on Friday into a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims and a police checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing 19 people in all, in the latest bout of violence to rattle Iraq.

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The past four years have shaken Khamenei's control over Iran (Reuters)

Iran supreme leader seeks political control

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his Guard are turning the prelude to the June 14 vote into an attempt to consolidate their power.

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A paramilitary soldier in Mashkel (Reuters)

Earthquake flattens Pakistan town

Mashkel and its roughly 20,000 inhabitants bore the brunt of the earthquake that shook buildings across Pakistan and the Gulf region.

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A scene from time travel classic Back to the Future

Iran denies having time machine

An Iranian government official has denied the Islamic state has a working time machine.

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Men search through the rubble of a destroyed house following an earthquake near the Iran border in Mashkel, Pakistan (AAP)

Thousands homeless after Pakistan quake

Thousands of people are homeless and desperate for aid in southwestern Pakistan following a deadly earthquake centred in neighbouring Iran.

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Dozens dead in Iran quake

A military official says the death toll in Pakistan from a major earthquake that shook both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border has risen to 34.

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A 6.3 magnitude quake killed 37 people in Iran on April 10 (Reuters)

Iran: 40 killed in 7.5 earthquake - reports

Iranian state TV says at least 40 people have been killed by a major earthquake near the Iran-Pakistan border.

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The 6.1 magnitude quake severely damaged homes in Iran (Reuters)

32 killed in Iran quake

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed 32 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran yesterday.

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Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili attends a news conference after the talks on Iran's nuclear programme  (Reuters)

No deal reached at Iran nuclear talks

Iran and six world powers failed to reach agreement Saturday on how to reduce fears that Tehran might use its nuclear technology to make weapons

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A curator with the nine-paged diary

Diary proves Argo film wrong video

A notebook belonging to a NZ diplomat during the Iranian hostage crisis proves once and for all that Affleck's 'Argo' is wrong.

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US President Barack Obama (L) with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem (Reuters)

Obama vows support for Israel video

US President Barack Obama has promised to work closely with Israel and do whatever is necessary to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear arms.

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Ben Affleck has conceded the movie wasn't fair  (file)

Embassy worker sets Argo record straight

A former New Zealand embassy worker who helped Americans during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis wants to set the record straight on Hollywood blockbuster Argo's depiction of events.

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Argo: The New Zealand cut video

After the outrage over misrepresentation of New Zealand in Ben Affleck's Argo, Nightline has created a new version.

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