Iran claims to have its own fleet of unarmed drones, but U.S. officials question Tehran's ability to conduct even short-range reconnaissance with unmanned aircraft.
Mr. Obama hinted at the need to engage Iran with a view to enlisting Iran's support in Afghanistan, support that Tehran's mullahs had extended to defeat Taliban when the United States first invaded Afghanistan Oct. 7, 2001.
U.S. officials acknowledge that North Korea's nuclear program is now far more advanced than Tehran's.
Fears of a disruption now emanate from Iran's threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the route for a fifth of the world's oil, in response to a European Union embargo on Tehran's oil as way to pressure it to give up its controversial nuclear program.
U.S. officials believe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is increasingly dominating Tehran's foreign policy, particularly as sanctions threaten to cripple the Iran economy.
Israel and U.S. lawmakers expressed skepticism over renewed negotiations between Iran and international powers over Tehran's nuclear program.
But his efforts to recreate on screen the drama of the secret operation by the CIA and Canada to extract six U.S. embassy workers from revolutionary Iran in 1980 haven't been overlooked by Tehran's Art Bureau.
's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in late December that Tehran had amassed 232 kilograms of uranium enriched to the 20% level but that almost 100 kilograms of that amount is being converted into fuel plates to power Tehran's research reactor.
Kourosh Ahmadi was convicted of providing intelligence to the CIA, Tehran's prosecutor's office said.
The women make hospital gowns and the ubiquitous orange jump suits worn by Tehran's street sweepers.
The election in February had left Mr Rafsanjani fighting for the last of Tehran's 30 seats.
The United States and its allies fear Tehran's goal is to make a bomb.
He said sanctions passed over the past seven years had not affected Tehran's programme.
Mr Ahmadinejad certainly has millions of enthusiasts, particularly in areas beyond the scrutiny of Tehran's chattering classes.
The EU last month banned all oil imports from Iran amid growing concern over Tehran's nuclear programme.
It has done so by converting some of the stockpile into fuel plates to power Tehran's research reactor.
Likewise, it is in Tehran's best interests to settle, assuming the benefits for doing so are sufficiently large.
But the US widened sanctions on Iran on Wednesday, aiming to tighten a squeeze on Tehran's ability to spend oil cash.
Before the meeting, Larijani repeated Tehran's rejection of Russia's main condition, a moratorium on Iran's own nuclear fuel production.
Tehran's prosecutor general's office said it has launched an investigation into the killings.
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That may be part of the reason Tehran's criticism of the United States has been somewhat muted, Bakhash theorized.
Moscow says its proposal offers the best hope for breaking Tehran's standoff with the West over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Iranian negotiators are due to arrive in Moscow tomorrow for discussions about moving Tehran's nuclear fuel production to Russia.
Tehran's prosecutor general's office said it had launched an investigation into the killings.
The consequences of Tehran's programme, he said, would be that other countries in the region would also want nuclear arms.
Mr. Ahmadinejad has challenged many in Tehran's political elite and exacerbated Iran's economic ills by spending lavishly on populist development projects.
Iran has done so by converting some of that stockpile into fuel plates to power Tehran's research reactor, the IAEA has said.
But knowledge of Tehran's internal decision-making was not as clear, he said.
His personal representative, Saeed Jalili, will lead Tehran's negotiating team in Kazakhstan.
Mr Malek-Madani has outlawed construction in seven of Tehran's 22 districts, and proposed that the ban be extended to a further nine.
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