Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited Iran's Gachin uranium mine on Wednesday for the first time in nine years, Iranian officials said.

"The inspectors expressed their satisfaction after having visited different parts of the mine," said Mohammed Amiri, an official of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency, quoted by state news agency IRNA.

Iran said Tuesday that Israel is using Tehran's nuclear program to distract from its "crimes" against the Palestinians, during a rare visit by an official from the Western-backed Palestinian Authority.

Israel, along with Western countries, has long accused Iran of covertly pursuing nuclear weapons alongside its civilian program -- charges denied by Tehran -- and the Jewish state criticized a landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers in November.

A Jerusalem court sentenced an ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Israeli Jew to four-and-a-half years prison Tuesday for attempting to spy for arch-foe Iran, a court document read.

Yitzhak Bergel, a member of the radical Neturei Karta group that opposes the existence of the state of Israel, admitted as part of a plea bargain to having contacted the Iranian embassy in Berlin in 2011 to offer intelligence, and staying in contact with Iranian diplomats after returning to Israel.

Indian police said Tuesday they had arrested a man in the tourist state of Goa for allegedly raping a four-year-old Iranian girl holidaying with her mother.

Goan police arrested the 32-year-old man on Monday after the alleged attack on the girl on January 22 in the northern village of Arpora, where he lived and the Iranians were staying, police inspector Paresh Naik said.

Iran and world powers will resume talks next month in New York on reaching a long-term nuclear deal, a senior U.S. official said Monday.

"It is our understanding that those talks will be in New York in mid-February, with dates still being confirmed on schedule, but it will be around that time period," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

The Kuwaiti coastguard seized on Monday an Iranian boat carrying 12 Iranians and two Afghans that had entered the Gulf state's territorial waters, the interior ministry and a security source said.

Patrols spotted the boat after it entered Kuwaiti waters early in the morning, seized the vessel and detained all 14 on board, the ministry said in a statement.

A group of former global leaders known as the Elders, tasked with encouraging dialogue between Iran and the international community, is due to arrive in Tehran Sunday, their website said.

The group, formed in 2007, is made up of twelve global leaders who try "to promote peace, justice and human rights," according to their website.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Saturday that talks with world powers on reaching a long-term nuclear deal will resume next month.

An interim six-month accord with the so-called P5+1 -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany -- was agreed in November and took effect on Monday.

Iran on Saturday handed a daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani a suspended jail sentence for spreading lies about the authorities, her lawyer told the official IRNA news agency.

"The verdict was issued by the court and my client has been sentenced to a six-month suspended jail term," Vahid Abolmoalayee said.

A senior Iranian official Saturday dismissed the need for a Tehran office for U.N. inspectors tasked with monitoring Iran's partial nuclear freeze, Mehr news agency said.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency had said the watchdog may ask Iran for permission "to set up a temporary office to provide logistical support," for its inspectors.