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Turkish trucks will pay lower fuel surcharges while crossing the border into Iran, according to an agreement signed between the two countries Jan. 15.

Due to fuel prices being cheaper in Iran, Turkish vehicles were ordered to pay a surcharge of 1.60 euros per liter to avoid the illegal transportation of fuel.  

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif held intensive talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme on Jan. 14, returning for an evening session before handing off to their deputies, officials said.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Jan. 12 that countries behind the fall in global oil prices would regret their decision and warned that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait would suffer alongside Iran from the price drop.

Muslims do not have any issues with bigotry, violence and gender inequality. Massacre machines such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Taliban and Boko Haram do not belong to Muslims. They are all "provocations" of the West, the U.S., and Zionism?

US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif next week in Geneva ahead of a fresh round of nuclear talks, an Iranian official said Jan. 9.
      

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Jan. 4 that foreign investors should no longer be viewed as a threat and signaled his country’s decades-long isolation from the world economy could soon end.

While President Barack Obama has not ruled out the possibility of reopening a U.S. Embassy in Iran, Republicans say the Senate will vote within weeks on a bill to impose more sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program.

Obama was asked in an NPR interview broadcast on Dec. 30 whether he could envision opening an embassy there during his final two years in office.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has claimed the killing of a senior Iranian officer advising Iraqi forces in their fight against the jihadists, according to images posted on jihadist forums Dec. 29.

Iran has started censoring images posted on photo sharing app Instagram, removing content deemed "offensive" as part of a government project to screen social networking accounts, local media reported Dec. 25.

"The filtering of pages with immoral content began yesterday (Wednesday) evening on Instagram," the government daily Iran said.

With the government unwilling to probe Iranian links with alleged graft in Turkey, Turkey's opposition plans a trip to Tehran to investigate Turkey's two biggest opposition parties plan to send separate delegations to Iran to receive related documents over alleged relations between four former ministers of the Turkish Cabinet, Iranian-origin businessmen Reza Zarrab and billionaire Iranian busi