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News Analysis: Trying to Buck Odds, Obama Takes On 3 Big Mideast Tasks

President Obama is looking for simultaneous progress on Iraq, Iran and Israeli-Palestinian peace, a triple play that has eluded his predecessors for decades.




Iran Shifts Assets Out of Europe Banks

The governor of Iran’s central bank, Mahmoud Bahmani, did not specify the amount or date of the transfers.




Crime (Sex) and Punishment (Stoning)

A particularly hard-to-grasp form of execution speaks to the distance between societies. And why we may see more of it.




Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant

Russia, which helped build the plant, emphasized that it could not be used for nonpeaceful purposes.




U.S. Persuades Israel That Iran's Nuclear Threat Is Not Imminent

The Obama administration has persuaded Israel that it would take roughly a year for Iran to complete a nuclear weapon, according to American officials.




Russia Sets Date for Key Iran Nuclear Step

The move by Russia is sure to disappoint American diplomats trying to halt Iran’s nuclear program.




New Wave of Iranians Seek U.S. Studies

Despite tensions between the U.S. and Iran, students in Iran are increasingly enrolling in American colleges.




U.S. Seeks to Offer a Balm to Iran for Sanctions’ Sting

The United States is making a renewed appeal to Iranian leaders to reopen nuclear talks.




Expatriates Receive Chilly Reception in Iran

Iran paid for several hundred Iranians living abroad to come back for a conference, but all did not go as planned.




Mistaken as an Iranian Martyr, Then Hounded

Wrongly identified as Neda Agha-Soltan, whose death in 2009 became a symbol for the opposition, Zahra Soltani fled Iran.