The Government of Cuba maintains close relationships with Iran and North Korea, and has provided safe haven to members of ETA after an agreement with the Spanish government ( under Felipe González ), FARC, and the ELN.

In addition, Oman maintains good relations with Iran, its northern neighbor, and the two countries regularly exchange delegations.

The United States now maintains that Saddam ordered the attack to terrorize the Kurdish population in northern Iraq, but Saddam's regime claimed at the time that Iran was responsible for the attack which some including the U. S. supported until several years later.

Also Iran maintains religious courts for all aspects of law and has religious police to maintain social compliance, while its government is described by the US Central Intelligence Agency as a " theocratic republic ".

Iran currently maintains full diplomatic relations with 99 countries worldwide.

In addition to the headquarters, the service maintains 20 local bureaus in countries throughout their broadcast region, as well as a corporate office in Washington, D. C. RFE / RL broadcasts in 28 languages to 21 countries including Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.

The United States Government maintains that the cruisers crew believed the airliner was a threatening Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force F-14 Tomcat ; the Government of Iran argues that the ships crew shot the airliner down deliberately and unlawfully.

Due to poor relations between the two countries, instead of exchanging ambassadors Iran maintains an interests section at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, D. C., while the United States has maintained an interests section at the Swiss embassy in Tehran.

The country, however, has seen substantial development since independence and, although blockaded by both Turkey and Azerbaijan over the Karabakh dispute, maintains friendly relations with its neighboring states of Georgia and Iran, as well as Russia, the important regional power.

The bill maintains that the vice president purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States ( 1 ) by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and ( 2 ) about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests and ( 3 ) that Cheney has openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States.

IEA maintains working relations with 7 Palestinian organizations, across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and is a founding partner of the Middle East Abrahamic Forum, with additional organizations from Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey.

However, Ledeen maintains these statements are consistent since: " I advocated — as I still do — support for political revolution in Iran as the logical and necessary first step in the war against the terror masters.

Wild caviar production has now survived only in Azerbaijan and Iran as Russia maintains a self-imposed ban on caviar trade from wild sturgeon.

The faculty maintains close ties and cooperates with universities in France, Germany, Spain, Czech republic, the USA, Canada, China, Egypt, Syria and Iran.

According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Iran currently maintains at least two major facilities for the research and production of chemical weapon agents.

Following the break-up of the Eastern bloc countries, she maintains, a strategy for the manipulation of the masses was set up with a permanent invention of an enemy ( currently incarnated by Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, and North Korea ) and by kindling fear and hate of others to justify perpetuating the Military-industrial Complex and arms sales.

Despite the country's shift to the Red Crescent in 1980, Iran explicitly maintains the right to use the symbol.

The main forces involved during that period in Kabul, northern, central and eastern Afghanistan were the Hezb-i Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar directed by Pakistan, the Hezb-i Wahdat of Abdul Ali Mazari directed by Iran, the Ittehad-i Islami of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf supported by Saudi Arabia, the Junbish-i Milli of Abdul Rashid Dostum backed by Uzbekisten, the Harakat-i Islami of Hussain Anwari and the Shura-i Nazar operating as the regular Islamic State forces ( as agreed upon in the Peshawar Accords ) under the defense ministry of Ahmad Shah Massoud.

In Islamic countries like Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq ( after 2003 ), political subjects are preached by imams at Friday congregations on a regular basis.

The Basij militia founded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in November 1979 is composed of 10, 000 regular soldiers, and ultimately draws from about 11 million members, and is subordinate to their Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Turkish Air, Iran Air, Kamair, Ural Airlines, S7 Airlines and many other international airlines operate regular flights and weekly flights to Germany and Russia.

There are regular flights between Azerbaijan and former Soviet countries, UK, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Israel, Iran, Turkey, UAE, China, Georgia and has a cargo flights in UAE, Turkey, Luxembourg, Germany, China, Kyrgystan Afghanistan and Iraq.

Venezuela and Iran were the first countries to move towards the establishment of OPEC in the 1960s by approaching Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in 1949, suggesting that they exchange views and explore avenues for regular and closer communication among petroleum-producing nations.

It is also ( or has been ) in regular unit-train operation in India, Mauritania, and Mexico, and almost made it into operation in both pre-and post-revolutionary Iran.

Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB, (, Sedā va Sima-ye Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān ), formerly called the National Iranian Radio and Television until the Islamic revolution of 1979, is a giant Iranian corporation in control of radio and television which is among the largest media organizations in Asia and Pacific region, and a regular member of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.

Iran has two parallel land forces with some integration at the command level: the regular Artesh ( Army ), and the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, also known as the Pasdaran ( IRGC ).

Some sources claim that small light formations in the regular army include an Airmobile Forces Group created after the Iran – Iraq War.

Stalteri has been a regular with the Canadian national team for several years since making his debut on August 17, 1997 against Iran.

there have been occasional bans of passenger flights in Dezful Air-Base because of military security matters in past 20 years, but at last based on an agreement between Military commanders and Dezful civil governors, a regular daily program of flights settled and obeyed at about end of 2007 by two domestic airlines, Iran Air Tour and Aseman.

Iran has regular presidential and parliamentary elections.

In 1982, as it became clear that Iran would not align with the USSR, the Soviets resumed regular arm shipments to Iraq, but relations would not became publicly strong again until early 1988.

Iran holds regular national elections by universal suffrage for all citizens ( regardless of race, religion, or sex, who are of voting age ) for electing the President, members of Parliament, Assembly of Experts, City and Village Councils where political parties support candidates.

A regular contributor to The Guardian, Hasan argued in November 2011 that " it be be rational for Iran – geographically encircled, politically isolated, feeling threatened – to want its own arsenal of nukes, for defensive and deterrent purposes?

# the organization, in Turkey and Iran, of offices for contacts with Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Caucasus Mountains ( the Georgian organization carried out about 20 expeditions to their country, and the Caucasian Mountain organization kept up regular contacts with their country on at least a monthly basis );

The stadium also is the regular host for Iran U-23 for the Olympics football qualifying.

Following the revolution the remaining units of the Imperial Guard were stripped of their historic privileges and duties and integrated into the 21st Division of the regular Islamic Republic of Iran Army.

He is a regular contributor to the NYR, where he has written articles and reviews on such topics as Al Qaeda, Islam in Europe, unanswered questions in the Lockerbie crash and the repression of gay people in Iran.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

More recently, the Iran hostage crisis is universally considered a violation of diplomatic immunity.

In 1939, diplomatic relations between Egypt and Iran were upgraded to ambassadorial level, and Youssef Zulficar Pasha was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran.

In 2010, leaked diplomatic cables revealed that Mubarak expressed animosity toward Iran in private meetings, saying the Iranian leaders are " big, fat liars ", and that Iran's backing of terrorism is " well-known ".

Hezbollah receives substantial amounts of financial, training, weapons, explosives, political, diplomatic, and organizational aid from Iran and Syria.

However, Egypt ’ s strong material and diplomatic support for Iraq in the war with Iran led to warmer relations and numerous contacts between senior officials, despite the continued absence of ambassadorial-level representation.

This time it was in response to the " capitulations " or diplomatic immunity granted by the Shah to American military personnel in Iran.

* 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses.

However, Egypt's strong material and diplomatic support for Iraq in the war with Iran led to warmer relations and numerous contacts between senior officials, despite the continued absence of ambassadorial-level representation.

** Following a rash of integrist murders, Algeria breaks diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs.

* April 7 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.

* March 7 – Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.

* December 2 – The United Kingdom and Iran reform diplomatic relations.

* September 7 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and human rights abuses.

* Iran and Iraq restored diplomatic relations in 1990, but they are still trying to work out written agreements settling outstanding disputes from their eight-year war concerning border demarcation, prisoners of war, and freedom of navigation in and sovereignty over the Shatt al-Arab waterway.

Saudi Arabia and Iran established diplomatic relations in 1928.

In November 2010, The Gambia severed all diplomatic ties with Iran following the seizure of a suspicious arms shipment in Nigeria.

Several countries once had diplomatic relations with Israel, but have since broken or suspended them ( Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela in Latin America ; Mauritania in the Arab League ; Chad, Guinea, Mali and Niger in non-Arab Africa ; and Iran until the Islamic revolution ).

While Iran was the first Muslim-majority country to recognize Israel, the two states do not currently have diplomatic relations with each other, due to Iran's withdrawal of its recognition of Israel.

In a February 15, 2007, interview, Pelosi noted that Bush consistently said he supports a diplomatic resolution to differences with Iran " and I take him at his word ".

The essay was written by British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, who found controversy in 1988 over one of his books gaining him a religious fatwa for Rushdie's death from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini which ultimately resulted in United Kingdom and Iran breaking diplomatic ties to each other a year later.

In addition, the Chinese Tang Dynasty had maritime trading, tributary, and diplomatic ties as far as modern-day Sri Lanka, India, Islamic Iran and Arabia, as well as Somalia in East Africa.

Rød-Larsen predicted that the coming weeks and months would require " very demanding diplomatic work ," including " cooperation from Iran and Syria.