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Nimitz back in Persian Gulf, Iran vows revenge for killing of nuke scientist
The Pentagon announced early Saturday that it sent the aircraft carrier Nimitz back into the Mideast.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Defying police, Iranians protest over plane shootdown
Videos posted online showed protesters shouting anti-government slogans and moving through subway stations and sidewalks, many around Azadi, or Freedom, Square after an earlier call for people to demonstrate there.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Japan’s Abe meets Saudi king amid Persian Gulf troubles
Japan has sought to remain politically neutral as tensions in the Middle East escalated following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
By Abdullah Al-Shihri, The Associated Press and Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press
Op-ed: Iran must come clean about the passenger jet it shot down
The author makes the case for a transparent international investigation to figure out what Iran did wrong, and why.
By Capt. Lawrence Brennan (retired)
Ukrainian airplane crashes near Iran’s capital, killing 176
A Ukrainian airplane carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s main airport, killing all onboard, state TV reported.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Militiamen withdraw from US Embassy but Iraq tensions linger
Iran denied involvement in the attack on the embassy. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted by media as saying that "if the Islamic Republic makes a decision to confront any country, it will do it directly."
Iran frees Chinese-American scholar for US-held scientist
President Donald J. Trump thanked Switzerland for helping to broker the swap.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Supreme leader: Iran has outflanked US since 1979 revolution
Iran's supreme leader said Sunday that his country has outmaneuvered the United States in the four decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Frozen in time, US Embassy a monument to Iran hostage crisis
What initially began as a sit-in devolved into 444 days of captivity for 52 Americans seized in the embassy.
Trump strains to balance diplomacy, military threat to Iran
The Trump administration tried to balance diplomacy with fresh talk of military action Tuesday in response to the fiery missile and drone attack on the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry — a strike marking the most explosive consequence yet of the “maximum pressure” U.S. economic campaign against Iran.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
Iran oil tanker pursued by US turns off tracker near Syria
Meanwhile, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reiterated that Tehran won't enter into direct talks with the U.S. unless Washington rejoins the 2015 nuclear deal that President Donald Trump scrapped a year ago.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press