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The United States sends over 3,000 more US soldiers to the Middle East as tensions with Iran heighten.
2020-01-3

The United States demands that all countries cease purchasing oil from Iran by May 1 or face sanctions, in a move aimed at reducing Iran's income.
2019-04-22

Iran says that it remains committed to the agreement but also that it is ready to step up uranium enrichment if the deal is no longer beneficial.
2018-05-8

Malta imposes a freeze on Pilatus Bank. The bank's Iranian chairman Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad was arrested and charged in the United States earlier this week, accused of breaching United States sanctions against Iran.
2018-03-22

The U.S.'s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director, James Comey, announces an increased reward of $5 million (up from $1 million, issued in 2012) for information leading to the return of a former FBI agent Robert Levinson (who disappeared March 9, 2007, in Iran and who was paid by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to gather information about Iran's nuclear program).
2015-03-9

Voters in Iran head to the polls to elect Members of the Parliament.
2012-03-2

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, says that the 2011 Egyptian protests and Tunisian uprising are a result of "Islamic awareness".
2011-02-4

Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, who says he was abducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, says the United States wanted him to confess to being a spy as part of a plan to force the release of three Americans spies caught by Iran.
2010-07-18

Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist allegedly abducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, leaves U.S. soil: Iran states it will continue to pursue the case "legally and diplomatically".
2010-07-14

Hundreds of people in Afghanistan demonstrate against alleged mistreatment and executions of Afghan refugees in Iran.
2010-05-6