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The United Arab Emirates confirms that it has withdrawn from the United States Navy-led Combined Task Force 150 mission in the Persian Gulf amid recent seizures of oil tankers by Iran.
2023-05-31

Nine people are arrested after an alleged Iranian-backed coup d'état plot is uncovered in Azerbaijan.
2023-05-16

An Israeli airstrike kills three Syrian soldiers, injures seven others and destroys an Iranian weapons depot near Damascus.
2022-07-22

Run-off parliamentary elections are being held in Iran. The first round of the election was held in February and provoked criticism as more than 7000 applicants got barred from participating.
2020-09-11

Iran releases four Iranian-American prisoners including "Washington Post" reporter Jason Rezaian and Christian pastor Saeed Abedini. The United States is to release seven Iranian-Americans held in the United States for violating sanctions against Iran.
2016-01-16

A Chinese companydate=April 2012 that insures ships announces it will stop indemnifying tankers carrying Iranian oil. This represents a continued tightening of world sanctions on Iran.
2012-04-5

Iran claims that a second cyberattack (Stuxnet previously) has been attempted via "Stars", a computer worm.
2011-04-25

Following a visit by German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle to Iran, two German journalists charged with espionage are released and return to Germany having been imprisoned since October for interviewing the son and lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.
2011-02-20

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

Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop death by stoning for an Iranian woman convicted of adultery.
2010-07-4