TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency met Saturday with Iranian officials to discuss that country's nuclear ambitions.

MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Russia's deputy foreign minister said the International Atomic Energy Agency is in full control of Iran's contentious nuclear program.

VIENNA, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The director of the U.N. nuclear agency said Thursday Iran needs to provide investigators with additional data on its nuclear programs.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep, Saul Bellow once said. The illusion, yet again, is a Middle Eastern peace conference in November or December that would produce the final outlines and contents of an independent state of Palestine. Seldom has such a vision appeared more chimera than reality, and yet seldom pursued more vigorously, this time by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has logged eight trips to the region in ten months, in the elusive pursuit of a legacy other than Iraq.

MOSCOW, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Tehran's tough new stance in its dialogue with the UN Security Council over its nuclear program, heralded by the sudden resignation of Ali Larijani as chief negotiator earlier this month, is the product of generational shift in Iran's political elite.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The last visit by a Russian leader to Iran was by Joseph Stalin in December 1943 for a secret summit with Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The British leader wanted the next major allied invasion to target Europe’s soft underbelly in the Balkans. The Soviet dictator and the U.S. president outvoted him. Thus, the decision was reached to make the invasion of France, which took place seven months later in 1944, the next geostrategic priority. This second summit, 64 years later, could also prove momentous -- down the road.

TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency concluded three days of talks Thursday in Tehran.

MOSCOW, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The Iranian Six has confirmed its commitment to talks with Tehran with a view to removing the concern of the world community with its nuclear program.

VIENNA, July 4 (UPI) -- The U.N. atomic watchdog agency, whose experts visited North Korea, reportedly has drafted ways to verify closure of that country's main nuclear reactor. Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, referred the arrangements to the