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The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said it will open its nuclear program to five years of ‘full supervision’ by the UN atomic energy agency if the world body lifts its sanctions. However, that ‘full supervision’ would have limits. Up to 300,000 Iranians may have had their Google email monitored using security certificates stolen […]

Almost 40 years in construction, the Bushehr nuclear power plant begins supplying electricity to the national grid. Iranian Revolutionary Guards forces launched a new offensive against Kurdish PAJK rebels in northwestern Iran.

Iran’s nuclear chief claimed the country is prepared to cooperate more closely with the IAEA. The Defense Ministry said it was manufacturing its own anti-armor missiles.

A court sentenced an Iranian man to death for assassinating a nuclear scientist; Iran claimed he was an agent of Israel. Iran said it would defend Syria if NATO intervened. Iran “discreetly” provided food and medical aid to Libyan rebels.

Iran has begun to transfer uranium enrichment centrifuges from the facility in Natanz to an installation in Fordow, near Qom. The IAEA said the move was a “further deviation” from UN Security Council sanctions.

Two US hikers who were arrested by Iranian forces and imprisoned in 2009 are said to have been sentenced to eight years in jail for allegedly entering the country illegally and spying. A third US hiker was released on bail last year.