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Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad Registers for Presidential Election

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered for the upcoming presidential elections to be held on May 19. In the first day of registration for the next presidential election in Iran, 126 people put their names at the list of candidates in Interior Ministry on Tuesday, IRNA news agency reported. Among ...

April 12, 2017

Middle East

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier-General Hossein Dehqan and his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu (archive)

Iran Warns US Action in Syria ‘Won’t Go Unanswered’

Any new US action in Syria “will not go unanswered”, Iran’s Defense Minister Hussein Dehqan warned Tuesday after America threatened to follow up a strike last week with more attacks. The United States last week fired a volley of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in response to an alleged ...

April 11, 2017

Middle East

Iran opens registration for May 19 presidential election

Iran has opened registration for those hoping to run in the May 19 presidential race. The official IRNA news agency said Tuesday that prospective candidates can register through the end of Saturday. They will then be vetted by the Guardian Council, a clerical body that will announce a final list ...

April 11, 2017

Middle East

Zarif Urges Intl. Fact-Finding Mission to Probe Syria Gas Attack

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reiterated the Islamic Republic’s stance on the need for the establishment of an international fact-finding committee to investigate the recent chemical attack in Syria. Zarif made the call during phone conversations on Monday with the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and ...

April 10, 2017

Middle East

Iranian Supreme Leader Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei

Leader Stresses Efforts to Foil Enemy Moves against Islamic Establishment

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei warned that a major “front of enemies” are seeking to destroy the Islamic Establishment, describing efforts to foil the enemies’ moves as sacred. “Today, a major front of wicked enemies is confronting the Islamic Establishment and the objective of all of ...

April 10, 2017

Middle East

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani (archive)

Rouhani: Russia Was ‘Inch from Confrontation’ with US after Syria Strikes

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said on Monday Russia was “in an inch from the confrontation” with the United States following the US missile strike on the Syrian Shairat airbase. “And if it turns out that the terrorists spread the [poison] gas, what the United States will do? If terrorists find ...

April 10, 2017

Middle East

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei

Imam Khamenei: US Missile Strikes against Syria Strategic Mistake

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei said on Sunday the recent missile strikes by the US military against a Syrian army air base were a “strategic mistake.” In a New Year meeting with senior commanders of Iran’s Armed Forces, Imam Khamenei said “what the Americans did was ...

April 9, 2017

Middle East

President Rouhani Unveils Iran’s New Nuclear Achievements

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has unveiled two major nuclear achievements on the occasion of the 11th anniversary of Iran’s National Nuclear Technology Day. The Iranian chief executive lifted the curtain off the accomplishments made by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, namely a stone centrifuge, and high temperature condensate pump. ...

April 9, 2017

Middle East

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi

Iran Condemns Sweden Truck Attack

Iran on Saturday condemned as terrorist a truck attack in Stockholm which killed at least four people and injured 17 others on Friday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahran Qasemi sympathized with Swedish people and government on the sad occasion, IRNA news agency reported. “Amid all the jubilation of some Western and ...

April 8, 2017

Middle East

Rouhani Says US Syria Strikes Strengthen Terror, Calls for Probe into Idlib Attack

Iranian President slammed as an aggression the US strikes on Syrian airbase of Shayrat, saying such attack strengthens terror in the world. On his Twitter account, the Iranian president said the US attack on Syria must be condemned. “US aggression against Shayrat strengthens regional extremism and terror, and global lawlessness ...

April 8, 2017