TEHRAN (AFP) - Ruling conservatives in Iran kept up their criticism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's inner circle on Monday, despite a plea for calm by all-powerful supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In the latest broadside, Hojatoleslam Mojtaba Zolnour, Khamenei's deputy representative to the elite Revolutionary Guards, accused Ahmadinejad's entourage of seeking to weaken the [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian security forces on Saturday fired in the air to disperse several hundred people protesting against the death at her father's funeral of political and social activist Haleh Sahabi, witnesses said.
The protesters had tried to gather to gather in silent groups outside the Hosseini Ershad mosque in northern Tehran, a traditional site for reformists in the Iranian [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader called on the ruling conservatives to end their divisions, in a speech on Saturday marking 22 years since the death of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
"In the country there are different political views... Do not deprive someone of security if he does not seek regime change or betrayal, or does not want to carry out enemy orders [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday repeated his assertion that there will be no tranquillity in the Middle East as long as Tehran's archfoe, Israel, continues to exist.
"As long as the Zionist regime exists, if only on a small piece of land in Palestine, the region will not see tranquillity" he said to a crowd gathered at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruholla [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday appointed Mohammad Aliabadi as caretaker oil minister after a political row over the post, his website reported.
"Considering your effective executive records ... based on this decree, you are appointed as the caretaker of the oil ministry," Ahmadinejad said in a decree quoted on the website.
Ahmadinejad on May 15 ann [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a group of Egyptians on Wednesday that he wanted to see an "anti-Zionist and anti-arrogance" Egypt.
"We must see to it that Iran and Egypt are two developed, powerful countries, anti-arrogance (Iran's shorthand for the West) and anti-Zionist," the official news agency Irna quoted the president as telling a group of Egyptian in [...]
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Iran briefly closed its airspace to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's plane as she flew to India for a visit on Tuesday, delaying her arrival and sparking a diplomatic row.
Merkel was held up as she flew overnight on Monday-Tuesday for a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi.
"Hindering the German chancellor's [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Egypt's expulsion on Monday of an Iranian diplomat on suspicion of spying was "a misunderstanding that has been resolved," state television's website reported.
"This issue was a misunderstanding that has been resolved," Salehi was quoted as saying on Cairo's expulsion of Qasim al-Hosseini.
Hosseini was expelled on Monday and fle [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - After years of pushing for tough sanctions against Iran, Israel has been left reeling by reports that an Israeli shipping company has been actively doing business with the Islamic republic.
The scandal erupted last week, when the US State Department announced it was sanctioning Israel's Ofer Brothers Group and its Singapore-based subsidiary Tanker Pacific.
The ann [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday backed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government and called for an end to the crisis within the ruling conservative camp, state television said.
"While there are weakness and problems ... the composition of the executive branch is good and appropriate, and the government is working. The government and parliament [...]
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