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The city of Yazd is one of the largest cities in Iran. It is located near Lout desert in the eastern part of central Iran. Yazd City is regarded as one of the driest cities of the country....
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Iran blames rise of extremism on intelligence agencies
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has blamed the rise of violent extremism on what he called certain states and on unidentified intelligence agencies which, he said, have put blades in t.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani talks to Charlie in an exclusive interview about the growth of the terrorist group in Syria -- and how countries who now oppose it may have fueled its rise....
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, shown in June, met with the UK Prime Minister at the United Nations.
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(CNN) -- Leaders from Britain and Iran met Wednesday for the first time in 35 years, a potential breakthrough conversation that occurs at a time when Tehran is trying to shed Western-led sanctions over its nuclear program and Western nations are trying to garner international support for their campaign against ISIS.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged the meeting between him and British Prime Minister David Cameron with a tweet -- picture included -- from the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
"1 hour of constructive & pragmatic dialogue, new outlook #UNGA," read his message on the Cameron meeting.
During his U.N. speech later Wednesday, Cameron talked about the meeting, the first since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
After talking about the need for the anti-ISIS coalition to be "inclusive, engaging the widest possible coalition of countries as possible," Cameron touched on his conversation with Rouhani.
The two leaders have "severe disagreements," Cameron said, pointing to "Iran's support for terrorist organizations, its nuclear program, its treatment of its people. All these need to change."
Then again, Cameron added, "Iran's leaders could help in defeating the threat from ISIL," using a commonly used acronym for ISIS, which calls itself the Islamic State.
"They could help secure a more stable and inclusive Iraq and a more stable and inclusive Syria," he said. "And if they are prepared to do this, then we should welcome their engagement."
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Iran's Rouhani, UK's Cameron have historic, 'constructive' meeting
Published September 26, 2014
Oct. 26, 2010: Iranian workers stand in front of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, about 1,200 km south of Tehran. (Reuters)
The United States is considering softening demands that Iran scales back its uranium enrichment program, instead agreeing to a new proposal that would allow Tehran to keep almost half of the program intact, diplomats say.
The initiative, reported late Thursday by The Associated Press, comes as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sought to leverage the crisis in the Middle East to ease sanctions on his country as part of nuclear talks, suggesting in a United Nations address that security cooperation between Iran and other countries could only occur if they struck a favorable nuclear deal.
While focusing in large part on Islamic extremists in the region, Rouhani made clear Irans cooperation in addressing these threats hinges on the outcome of ongoing nuclear talks as he once again urged other nations to drop what he described as excessive demands.
The U.S., fearing Tehran may enrich to weapons-grade level used to arm nuclear warheads, ideally wants no more than 1,500 centrifuges left operating. Iran insists it wants to use the technology only to make reactor fuel and for other peaceful purposes and insists it be allowed to run at least the present 9,400 machines.
The tentative new U.S. offer attempts to meet the Iranians close to half way on numbers, diplomats told The Associated Press. They said it envisages letting Iran keep up to 4,500 centrifuges but would reduce the stock of uranium gas fed into the machines to the point where it would take more than a year of enriching to create enough material for a nuclear warhead.
That, they said, would give the international community enough lead time to react to any such attempt.
Rouhani said a deal could mark the beginning of multilateral cooperation and allow for greater focus on some very important regional issues such as combating violence and extremism.
Iran insists it does not want atomic arms but the West is only willing to lift nuclear-related sanctions if Tehran agrees to substantially shrink enrichment and other activities that Iran could turn toward making such weapons.
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