Mr. Crocker said he told his Iranian counterpart that those activities "needed to cease."

But these clerics do not know their Iranian counterparts nearly as well as they once did.

In 2007, dozens of Burmese monks and civilians were shot down (and, unlike their Iranian counterparts, they never resorted to rock-throwing or burning).

In April 17th Iraqi diplomats are due to meet their Iranian counterparts in Geneva for a new round of peace talks.

The Iranian counterparts of these terms (Daeva and Ahura) have opposite meanings.

Britain ordered all British financial institutions to stop doing business with their Iranian counterparts, including the central bank.

British naval officers are known to converse routinely by radio with their Iranian counterparts to advise them of the convoys' movements.

I know that our Iranian counterparts do as well.

Their Iranian counterparts are not doomed to the same existence.

Though severely demoralized, the armies of Iraq enjoyed better supplies, training, and information than their Iranian counterparts.