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An Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder on Wednesday, a human rights group said.

The start of the trial of three Americans charged with spying on Iran has been postponed because one of them has not been summoned to return to the country to appear in court, Iran's judiciary spokesman said Monday.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley urged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd) to send American hikers Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer home. In a tweet sent Thursday on Ahmadinejad's birthday, Crowley said, "What a gift that would be."

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that once or twice a year Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses ...

A classified U.S. military document appears to lend credence to claims that Iran crossed the Iraqi border to arrest three American hikers.

Alik Gershon from Israel took the Guinness record for simultaneous chess games from the Jewish state's arch-foe Iran today after a marathon 19-hour match against 523 players.

The United States plans to sell up to $60 billion worth of military aircraft to Saudi Arabia, the State Department announced on Wednesday in a move designed to shore up a region overshadowed by Iran.

Iran is ready to hold talks with six major powers over its nuclear program could take place "in late October or Early November," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.

Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, accused of illegally entering Iran, are set to go on trial Nov.

The Obama administration put eight Iranian officials on a blacklist for their role in the bloody suppression of protesters after the Iranian election last year.