Past contacts between the U.S. and Iran
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A history of official contact &#151; and near misses &#151; between U.S. and Iranian officials.
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The United States hopes a meeting between the U.S. and Iranian envoys to Baghdad will push Tehran to change its ways in Iraq even though their last encounter made no difference, said U.S. officials on Monday.
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The U.S. has recently shared new intelligence with the International Atomic Energy Agency on key aspects of Iran's nuclear program that Washington says shows Tehran was directly engaged in trying to make a bomb, diplomats said Thursday.
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The United States and their adversaries in Iran and Syria may for the first time since the Iraq war began meet face to face at a conference next month to discuss the situation in Iraq.
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An Iranian official who met Wednesday with Egypt's president said the two countries could soon restore diplomatic relations severed nearly three decades ago.
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Remarks prepared for Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Despite recent tensions over Iran's nuclear program, the United States and Iran quietly initiated a high-level cultural exchange this week with a visit to Tehran by the librarian of Congress, James Billington.
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The United States and Iran broke a 27-year diplomatic freeze Monday with a four-hour meeting about Iraqi security. The American envoy said there was broad policy agreement, but that Iran must stop arming and financing militants who are attacking U.S. and Iraqi forces.
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Iran accused the United States on Sunday of interfering in the Middle East after President George W. Bush said he would press allies to help keep Iran's "aggressive ambitions" in check during a regional trip this week.
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BAGHDAD, May 28 -- U.S. and Iranian diplomats met in formal, bilateral talks for the first time in more than a quarter century on Monday, seeking ways to reduce the level of violence in Iraq and help restore stability to this fractured country, where both have vital interests.
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Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says relations with the US could be restored in the future.
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Iran will allow an American woman to travel to Tehran to get information about her husband, a former FBI agent who was last seen at a resort island off the country's southern coast, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
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The U.S. and Iranian ambassadors to Iraq will meet this week to discuss security issues in the war-torn country, a senior Bush administration official said Sunday.
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After years of stonewalling, Iran is sending a senior envoy to talks with the U.N. atomic monitoring agency that could provide answers on past nuclear activities, diplomats said Sunday.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell shared information with reporters Wednesday about Iran&#39;s nuclear program that was classified and based on an unvetted, single source who provided information
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Iran's foreign minister indicated Monday his country would take part in at least part of an international conference on Iraq in Baghdad, which would be the first U.S.-Iranian contact in more than two years.
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When U.S. and Iranian officials sit down at a regional meeting in Baghdad on Saturday it will be far from the first time they have been in the same room since the United States severed ties with Iran in 1980.