1. Bashar Assad, Syria's President, getting out of car, greets and shakes hands with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, and they embrace

2. Close up Assad and Ahmadinejad hand shake, pull out to mid as...

1. Wide of aeroplane carrying Lebanese president Michel Suleiman taxiing on runway

2. Mid of aero
plane
3. Wide of Suleiman and his delegation getting
off plane
4. Suleiman greeting Iranian Foreign Min
istry...

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi arrived in Damascus on Wednesday for talks with President Bashar al-Assad.

Salehi was received by his Syrian counterpart, Walid al-Moallem, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in...

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Vienna on Wednesday to take part in a new round of negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme.

The United States will join Iran and the EU in talks in the Austrian...

World powers continued their major diplomatic push on Saturday to reach an interim nuclear deal with Iran, despite fierce opposition from Israel and uncertainty in the US Congress.

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Deputy...

The Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, joined counterparts from five other major world powers in Geneva on Saturday, for talks on Iran's nuclear programme.

The ministers rushed to Geneva after diplomats said on Friday...

Delegations from the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany opened meetings with Iran in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.

The talks are the continuation...

International diplomats hustled to smooth out last-minute hang-ups for this week's peace conference on Syria, playing down expectations on Tuesday for a gathering thrown into confusion by a threatened...

1. Wide pan of meeting room

2. US Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice
3. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier
4. Canadian Foreign Minister
David Emerson
5. French Foreign...

<<HEADLINE:Iran launches large-scale war games

CAPTION: Days ahead of a UN deadline to stop enriching uranium, Iran holds more military exercises. (Feb
. 20)
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Iraqi troops massed for an assault on Abadan behind a curtain of withering artillery fire, slowly reducing the town that once boasted the world's largest refinery into ruins.

1. vs damaged
area
2. vs Iraqi soldiers on...

The European Union's foreign policy chief arrived in Iran on Saturday, her first visit to the Islamic Republic as nuclear talks with world powers continue.

Catherine Ashton's motorcade was seen leaving the airport in Tehran...

Diplomats left the Hotel Intercontinental in Geneva on the first day of the P5+1 talks on the Iranian nuclear programme.

Among them were EU high representative Catherine Ashton and Iranian foreign minister Mohammad...

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1. Tracking shot of tanks' exercise
area
2. Wide of tank driving to the exer
cise area
3. Mid of ta
nks passing by
4. Tracking shot of tanks driving t
o the exercise...

1. Wide shot Celtic Manor clubhouse, venue for EU foreign ministers'' meeting, with EU, UK and Welsh flags flying

2. UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arr
iving
3. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solan
a...

1. Zoom in of outgoing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disembarking from plane at Baghdad International Airport

2. Mid Ahmadinejad with others walking on red carpet, greets Iraqi Vice President Khudier al-Khuzaie...

Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Ali Khalatbari, arrives in Abu Dhabi

1. Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Ali Khalatbari, down plane steps and greeted by United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Ahmad Khalifa Al Su
weidi
2....

Europe's Foreign Affairs Chief Catherine Ashton and Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left hotel in Geneva on Wednesday ahead of a second day of meetings at the United Nations aimed easing fears that Tehran...

Iran's foreign minister and the EU's top foreign policy chief have launched a new round of nuclear talks between Tehran and six world powers, putting a reported tiff behind them.

The two sides hope to reach an agreement by...

Iran and six world powers are hoping to narrow differences at a new round of nuclear talks which commenced on Tuesday, less than three months before an informal July deadline for a deal.

Negotiations resumed in the...

Iraq's outgoing prime minister Nouri al-Maliki met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his delegation in Baghdad on Sunday.

Zarif arrived in the Iraqi capital earlier in the day for a two-day visit during...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in Tehran on Sunday for a one-day visit.

He was formally received by his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, at Saadabad Pa
lace.
They were expected to discuss a...

1. Exterior Waldorf-Astoria hotel

2. Photo-op of Rice with counterparts seated around
table
3. Exterior Waldorf-Ast
oria hotel
The US hosted high-level talks in New York on Friday on the introduction of new...

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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami began a three day visit to France on Wednesday, amid angry protests and demonstrations - the first state visit by an Iranian leader since the Islamic Revolution...