61.   During the takeover eight Iranian diplomats and an Iranian journalists were killed by Taliban troops causing tensions in the region to soar.

62.   Earlier, two Iranian cultural centers were stormed by angry mobs, killing one Iranian diplomat.

63.   Eight Sunni Muslim militants were acquitted Monday of murdering an Iranian diplomat and six Pakistanis.

64.   Egypt has upgraded its diplomatic mission in Iran in a sign of thawing ties between the two countries, Egyptian and Iranian diplomats said Wednesday.

65.   Egypt has upgraded its diplomatic mission in Iran in a sign of thawing ties, Egyptian and Iranian diplomats said Wednesday.

66.   Eleven Iranian diplomats vanished in that attack.

67.   During the bloody takeover eight Iranian diplomats and an Iranian journalist also were killed.

68.   Eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist were killed after the Taliban overran the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif last August.

69.   Four Iranian diplomats who allegedly had dealings with a suspected Turkish Islamic terrorist have left Turkey, the Anatolia news agency said Wednesday.

70.   Germany and Iran have already recalled their ambassadors and Bonn expelled four Iranian diplomats.