The parents of detained Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, Bernard Vandecasteele (BotC) and Annie Vandecasteele (R) take part in a solidarity rally organised by Human rights group Amnesty International and a support comittee to ask for his liberation, in Brussels on January 22.//AF{

‘Hostage diplomacy’: a growing headache for the West

Sylvie Arnaud’s first feeling when she learnt her son Louis had been detained in Iran in September last year was sheer incredulity, followed by a raging sense of injustice and…

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Iranian pilgrims join this year’s hajj in their tens of thousands after Tehran reconciled with Saudi Arabia in March turning the page on seven years of enmity (Sajjad HUSSAIN/AFP)

Iranians go from ‘harassment’ to hajj happiness after Saudi pact

  • June 27, 2023
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If a landmark reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran has eased tensions in the Gulf, clouds have also lifted at the hajj pilgrimage, where Iranian visitors finally feel welcome again….

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Uranium particles enriched just under the 90 percent needed to produce an atomic bomb were detected at Iran’s underground Fordow plant © – / Satellite image ©2021 Maxar Technologies/AFP/File

UN nuclear chief to meet Raisi during crucial Iran talks

  • March 4, 2023
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The UN nuclear watchdog chief was in Iran on Saturday for expected talks with President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials after the discovery of uranium particles enriched to near weapons-grade…

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This handout picture taken and released by the Turkish Presidency on July 19, 2022 shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C), Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) arriving for a joint news conference after at the end of the Astana Trilateral Summit at the Tehran International Conference Hall in Tehran. / AFP

Putin forges ties with Iran’s supreme leader in Tehran talks

  • July 20, 2022
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LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin had talks with Supreme Leader  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran on Tuesday, the Kremlin leader’s first trip outside the former Soviet Union since Moscow’s Feb. 24…

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