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White House to Release Iran Implementation Agreement

The White House plans to release a summary of the implementation agreement to the interim nuclear deal between world powers and Iran later Thursday.

The full text, which instructs the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) how to implement the deal, has also been made available to a restricted audience of lawmakers and aides in Congress, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

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Rouhani Warns of Domestic Opposition to Nuclear Deal

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned Thursday that he was facing domestic opposition to a landmark nuclear deal with major powers that is to go into effect next week.

Rouhani, whose June election has led to a quickening rapprochement with the West after years of hostility, said there was organized opposition in Iran to his efforts to allay Western concerns about its nuclear program in return for an easing of sanctions.

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Ban Says U.N. Undecided over Iran Attending Syria Talks

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday the international organisation has not taken a final decision on whether Iran should attend the Geneva II conference on Syria.

"As of this moment, we have not been able to finalize whether Iran should participate or not," Ban told a press conference in Kuwait where he attended a donors conference for Syria.

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Iran's Rouhani Defiant in Face of Hardliners

President Hassan Rouhani, responding to domestic critics, said Wednesday Iran's foreign policy is in the hands of the government only, ISNA news agency reported.

The president's moderate views on recent nuclear talks and foreign policy have clashed with ultraconservative factions in the regime.

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Iran Invites Gulf States to Tour Nuclear Power Plant

Iran's nuclear chief said Wednesday experts from Arab neighbors across the Gulf, concerned about the safety of Iran's sole nuclear power plant, are welcome to visit the facility, IRNA news agency reported.

"We are ready for the visit of nuclear experts of Persian Gulf countries to Bushehr nuclear power plant," Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying when asked how Tehran would tackle their worries.

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Iran's Rouhani among Some 40 World Leaders Expected in Davos

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and some 40 other world leaders will gather at the World Economic Forum next week to discuss Syria's bloody civil war and the sluggish world economy.

The annual gathering of the global political, business, academic and civil society elite at the swank Swiss ski resort Davos will aim to provide "a mirror of the world as it is", WEF chairman Klaus Schwab told reporters.

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Syria's Assad Slams Saudi Ideology as 'Threat to World'

Syrian President Bashar Assad warned during a meeting in Damascus on Wednesday with Iran's foreign minister that Saudi Arabia's political and religious ideology is "a threat to the world," state television reported.

He was referring to Wahhabism, an ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim tradition which is predominant in Saudi Arabia, a key backer of Syria's revolt against Assad.

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U.S. Charges Man with Bid to Send F-35 Jet Plans to Iran

U.S. federal prosecutors have charged an Iranian-American with trying to ship sensitive documents on the F-35 fighter jet to Iran, according to court documents.

Mozaffar Khazaee, who was arrested last week, is accused of trying to smuggle thousands of pages of F-35 blueprints and technical documents, authorities said in a U.S. government affidavit.

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Iran, IAEA Talks Postponed amid Nuclear Deal Preparations

Negotiations for transparency of Tehran's nuclear drive with the U.N. nuclear watchdog have been postponed until February while Iran and world powers prepare to implement a landmark nuclear deal, officials said Tuesday.

Talks with International Atomic Energy Agency experts, which are also examining long-standing allegations of past nuclear weapons research by Tehran, were originally scheduled for January 21 in the Iranian capital.

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Iran's Zarif to Meet Putin in Moscow Thursday

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will head to Moscow Thursday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Iran's nuclear program and on regional issues including Syria, an official said.

"Zarif will meet the Russian president as well as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his one-day trip to Moscow on Thursday," Mehdi Sanaei, Iran's ambassador to Russia, told the official IRNA news agency.

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