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30 Dec 2011

Activist slapped with additional 3 year jail-term for ‘insulting leader’ Oye! Times

Imprisoned political activist Abolfazl Ghadyani is to serve an additional three years in jail, according to a ruling handed down by an Iranian court. A senior member of the pro-reform Mujahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organisation (MIRO), Ghadyani was initially arrested on 28 December 2009, a day after opposition rallies known as the "Ashura" protests. Following his court trial, the 66-year-old was sentenced to a year in prison for "insulting the president."
Imprisoned political activist Abolfazl Ghadyani is to serve an additional three years in jail, according to a ruling...
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30 Dec 2011

Defiant Iranian Likely To Face Execution For Tossing Shoes At Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The man who was arrested for tossing his shoes at Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a speech earlier this month could face execution for his act of defiance. Rashid Shahbandi, who has been in custody since his arrest at the time of the incident, has been tortured and is facing heavy punishment with a strong possibility of a death sentence, opposition groups told the Iran Khabar Agency, an independent news service.
The man who was arrested for tossing his shoes at Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a speech earlier this...
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27 Dec 2011

In Iran, Ahmadinejad joins battle over women’s fashions

In the Islamic republic of Iran, the law requires women to cover their hair and bodies in public. But how to do so remains up to them, and the result is persistent confusion in the streets. Now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is stepping into the dispute. He wants to settle it by promoting government-approved apparel for women, garments intended to introduce an array of clothes that are Islamic and beautiful at the same time. Hard-liners are not amused. They say that the new designs encourage "Western values." But at a recent government-sponsored fashion show, young women and their mothers gazed approvingly at the plastic mannequins showcasing the new coats and scarves.
In the Islamic republic of Iran, the law requires women to cover their hair and bodies in public. But how to do so...
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19 Dec 2011

The Battle Within — Ahmadinejad v. Rafsanjani in 5Â Scenes

Hassan Rohani, an ally of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, hosts a meeting of the Strategic Research Center of the Expediency Council. The topic is the Arab Spring, specifically the role of the Iran-led Islamic Awakening in the movements across North Africa and the Middle East.
Hassan Rohani, an ally of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, hosts a meeting of the Strategic Research Center of the...
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14 Dec 2011

The Supreme Leader Is Worried — Three Developments You Probably Don’t Know

Followers of our daily coverage of Iran will be aware of the political tensions that have gripped the Islamic Republic's establishment. Those battles, from charges of corruption to warning of a "deviant current" affecting the Government, will only grow in intensity before next March's Parliamentary elections. Yet EA sources have given us a story that goes even farther. The core of the tale is the belief amongst many observers in Iran that, despite all the attacks upon it, the President's camp will be the winner in the elections. Whether or not that assessment is correct, the Supreme Leader's advisors are concerned.
Followers of our daily coverage of Iran will be aware of the political tensions that have gripped the Islamic Republic's...
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13 Dec 2011

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes latest victim of shoe-throwing attack

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become the latest leader to find himself on the receiving end of that popular Middle Eastern method of protest the thrown shoe. Like George W Bush before him, Ahmadinejad found himself staring down the sole of a gentleman's shoe when someone believed to be a recently laid-off textile worker decided to demonstrate his anger during an official ceremony in the north of the country
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become the latest leader to find himself on the receiving end of that popular...
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2 Dec 2011

Iran: domestic power plays

Tehran has once again sent shock waves around the globe as protesters stormed the British Embassy and residence forcing London to withdraw its diplomats from Iran at a critical time when Iranians are preparing for what Iran's Intelligence Minister has labeled as "the most critical elections in the Islamic Republic's history".
Tehran has once again sent shock waves around the globe as protesters stormed the British Embassy and residence forcing...
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1 Dec 2011

Analysis British embassy storming bares rift in Iran elite

The storming of the British Embassy in Tehran has bared a rift in Iran's ruling elite with conservative hardliners pushing Iran towards global isolation as they maneuver for the upper hand over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ahead of elections in 2012.
The storming of the British Embassy in Tehran has bared a rift in Iran's ruling elite with conservative hardliners...
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22 Nov 2011

Security Forces Raid Iran Newspaper, Beat, Pepper Spray, and Arrest Journalists

Security forces attacked Iran Newspaper, one of IRNA s major publications, to arrest Ali Akbar Javanfekr, the President s press adviser and Managing Director of IRNA News Agency. Javanfekr was sentenced to one year in prison for publishing articles and photographs considered against public morality in Khatoon, a special insert in Iran Newspaper. He held a press conference about his sentence this morning. At the end of his press conference, he was approached by representatives from the Tehran Prosecutor s Office who had come to arrest him, leading to the confrontation with the entire editorial staff. In a November 19 interview with Etemad Newspaper, Javanfekr sharply criticized Iran s Prosecutor General, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi, and former Iranian Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki.
Security forces attacked Iran Newspaper, one of IRNA s major publications, to arrest Ali Akbar Javanfekr, the President...
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22 Nov 2011

The Security Forces Cross Ahmadinejad’s Red Line

As I watched the 23-minute video of Monday's raid by Iranian security forces on the offices of the newspaper Iran, using tear gas and electric batons to seize President Ahmadinejad's senior advisor Ali Akbar Javanfekr --- while Javanfekr's staff tried to block their way and set fire to papers --- I was reminded of our response last week to the declaration, "Ahmadinejad has risen like a phoenix from the ashes": "The pendulum does not swing that far. Rocky does not throw a climactic punch. The Phoenix does not rise."
As I watched the 23-minute video of Monday's raid by Iranian security forces on the offices of the newspaper Iran, using...
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20 Nov 2011

Iran daily closed over Ahmadinejad aide interview

Iranian authorities shut down a reformist newspaper on Sunday after it published a scathing attack by an aide to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the president's rival conservatives, the latest sign of a split in the highest echelons of the Islamic Republic.
Iranian authorities shut down a reformist newspaper on Sunday after it published a scathing attack by an aide to Mahmoud...
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18 Nov 2011

Iran fires up voters with partial lifting of water pipe ban

Revoking a smoking ban may seem an unlikely way to boost election turnouts. But in Iran, authorities are hopeful that allowing the traditional hubble-bubble, or water pipes, back into tea houses could encourage reluctant voters to go to the polls.
Revoking a smoking ban may seem an unlikely way to boost election turnouts. But in Iran, authorities are hopeful that...
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7 Nov 2011

Decoding Ahmadinejad: Did He Just Declare the Final Confrontation within the Establishment

Over the last 48 hours, reports have emerged of an extraordinary speech by President Ahmadinejad to a group of his backers, the Supporters of Islamic Revolution Dialogue, in Tehran. Our initial reaction was "Did he really say that?" And that as the reports built in their detail, we began to consider, "If he did say that, what does it mean for the conflict inside the Iranian system?"
Over the last 48 hours, reports have emerged of an extraordinary speech by President Ahmadinejad to a group of his...
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2 Nov 2011

Fraud Case Rattles Iranian Leader

Iran's Parliament moved against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's economy minister over a banking-fraud case, only to back off, in a roller-coaster session that showcased the battle between the president and the country's political establishment. he $2.6 billion fraud case, the largest in Iran's history, has become a powerful vehicle for rivals of Mr. Ahmadinejad to attack his administration.
Iran's Parliament moved against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's economy minister over a banking-fraud case, only to back...
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1 Nov 2011

Iran demands apology from US over Saudi ambassador ‘assassination plot’

Iran has raised the stakes in its row with the US over the alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington by demanding an official apology from the Obama administration over the claim that Tehran was responsible.
Iran has raised the stakes in its row with the US over the alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington by...
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1 Nov 2011

Is Ahmadinejad’s team planning a military coup in Iran

The fundamentalist movement in Iran close to the supreme leader of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has criticized president Mahmud Ahmadinejad and his close circle, referring to it as "the perverted team," of planning a military coup in a bid to take full control of the country
The fundamentalist movement in Iran close to the supreme leader of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has...
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30 Oct 2011

Iran parliament set to question Ahmadinejad over fraud case, corruption, in blow to prestige

Iran s parliament is set to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over an economic scandal and his polices after the required number of lawmakers signed a petition Sunday, the latest salvo in a long battle between the president and his rivals.
Iran s parliament is set to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over an economic scandal and his...
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28 Oct 2011

Iran’s Power Struggle Goes Beyond Personalities to Future of Presidency ItselfÂ

The fighting in Iran is very serious now, said Seyed Mojtaba Vahedi, a former editor of Aftab-e Yazd, an influential reformist newspaper. The supreme leader has wanted more control over the presidency for a long time, but he never expected to have such problems with Ahmadinejad.
The fighting in Iran is very serious now, said Seyed Mojtaba Vahedi, a former editor of Aftab-e Yazd, an influential...
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26 Oct 2011

Ghasem Soleimani; Ahmadinejad’s Possible Successor

With the announcement that documents pertaining to the plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington have been submitted to the United Nations and submission of documents implicating Iran s Ghods force in the plan to the Security Council, the name of the commander of the Ghods force, Ghasem Soleimani is again the focus of media attention, both in Iran and internationally. Some foreign media have even called him the number two man in the Islamic Republic of Iran after supreme leader ayatollah Khamenei.
With the announcement that documents pertaining to the plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington have been...
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22 Oct 2011

Syria crisis: Iran’s Ahmadinejad criticises killings

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticised the killings in its ally Syria sparked by the government's violent crackdown on dissent. In his most outspoken comments yet, Mr Ahmadinejad told CNN: "Nobody has the right to kill others, neither the government nor its opponents."
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticised the killings in its ally Syria sparked by the government's violent...
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18 Oct 2011

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talks to Al Jazeera

The US has accused Iran of backing a $1.5mn hit on the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington, which it says it foiled with the arrest of an American-Iranian. "This plot was a flagrant violation of international and US law and a dangerous escalation of the Iranian government's long-standing use of political violence and sponsorship of terrorism," Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said.
The US has accused Iran of backing a $1.5mn hit on the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington, which it says it foiled...
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18 Oct 2011

What Will U.S. Do About Iran?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad telling Al Jazeera that he thinks the U.S. wants to go to war with Iran, but, as you heard, thinks that the economic situation is diverting the attention of the warmongers in the U.S
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad telling Al Jazeera that he thinks the U.S. wants to go to war with Iran, but, as...
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16 Oct 2011

Iran could scrap directly elected president leader

Iran could do away with the post of a directly elected president, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, in what might be a warning to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and possible successors not to overstep the executive's limited powers
Iran could do away with the post of a directly elected president, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday,...
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16 Oct 2011

Duelling Propaganda Banjos Play Over Backroom Manoeuvres

Quoting unnamed sources, the website claimed that not only was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad aware of the plot, but that he had planned it himself. According to the claim, the Iranian president suggested to Khamenei that terrorist operations be authorized outside Iran to neutralize the effect of the Arab Spring on Iran and prevent the toppling of the Islamic Republic.
Quoting unnamed sources, the website claimed that not only was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad aware of the plot, but that he had...
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29 Sep 2011

Al-Qaida rejects Iran’s 9 11 conspiracy theories

Al-Qaida has sharply criticized Iran's president over his suggestions that the United States government was behind the Sept. 11 attacks and not al-Qaida, dismissing the comments as "ridiculous."
Al-Qaida has sharply criticized Iran's president over his suggestions that the United States government was behind the...
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27 Sep 2011

Iran Continues to Back Al-BashirÂ’s Sudan

This week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad paid a visit to Sudan and met with Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. The two countries have maintained close diplomatic and military ties since Al-Bashir's rise to power in Sudan in 1989, in a coup inspired by Iran's Islamic Revolution ten years earlier. Over the years, Sudan has played an important role in Iran's regional strategy. Tehran's goal, according to experts, is to secure a base on the Red Sea.
This week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad paid a visit to Sudan and met with Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir....
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23 Sep 2011

Protesters rally against Iranian leader outside UN

s hundreds of people protested the appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said the Obama administration is doing "almost nothing" to protect Iranians from the violence of their own regime.
s hundreds of people protested the appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations General...
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23 Sep 2011

Iran president makes 9 11 claims after UN walkout

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he believes - as an engineer - the World Trade Center towers could not have been brought down by aircraft. Interviewed after his address to the UN General Assembly sparked a walkout, he told the AP news agency some kind of planned explosion must have occurred.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he believes - as an engineer - the World Trade Center towers could not...
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23 Sep 2011

US Hikers Released – Everyone, including Ahmadinejad, is a Winner (for Now)

Before delving into the realms of the political, manipulative, and cynical, I should emphasise that the primary winners of yesterday's drama from Tehran to Oman en route to the US --- if someone can win after 26 months in detention on unproven allegations --- are the US hikers Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer and their families. The scenes of reunion in Oman, where Fattal and Bauer were flown after their release from Tehran's Evin Prison on $500,000 bail each, speak far louder than any paragraph of commentary today.
Before delving into the realms of the political, manipulative, and cynical, I should emphasise that the primary winners...
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22 Sep 2011

A Few Words With Iran’s President

Mr. Ahmadinejad is a complex, even bizarre, figure. A firebrand with a penchant for making explosive public statements, he is small in person, subdued and very soft-spoken. Even when I pushed him hard on human rights abuses and nuclear deceptions, he responded in even tones while claiming that Iran is manifestly more democratic than the United States.
Mr. Ahmadinejad is a complex, even bizarre, figure. A firebrand with a penchant for making explosive public statements,...
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18 Sep 2011

The end of an era in Iran

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives at the United Nations this week for what promises, once again, to be a belligerent address. Media speculation is sure to focus on his diminishing political fortunes - underscored by tensions with the judiciary over the fate of the two American hikers held since July 2009 - the shifting balances of power within the theocratic state and, as always, Iranian nuclear ambitions. Missing from this narrative is a key point: The Islamic Republic has entered its post-authoritarian stage.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives at the United Nations this week for what promises, once again, to be a...
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15 Sep 2011

Full Ahmadinejad Interview with NBCÂ News

NBC News has paid a high price for its access to the President and the "exclusive" that Ahmadinejad will give a "unilateral pardon" to US hikers Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, sentenced to eight years for espionage. (It is an interesting question whether NBC knew in advance, as a sweetener to do the interview, of the President's plan or at least was told that Ahmadinejad would make an "important announcement".)
NBC News has paid a high price for its access to the President and the "exclusive" that Ahmadinejad will give a...
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15 Sep 2011

Faster, Please! Khamenei Must Go (and Take Ahmadinejad too, Please)

According to several recent reports, the Obama administration is now considering more forceful action against Iran in Iraq. This is as understandable as it was inevitable; as I wrote many months before the invasion of Iraq, it is folly to expect to maintain decent security there so long as the current regime remains in power in Tehran. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his henchmen cannot tolerate the existence of a free, stable democratic society in its Shi ite neighbor to the West, nor in Afghanistan to the East.
According to several recent reports, the Obama administration is now considering more forceful action against Iran in...
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14 Sep 2011

Iran’s Judiciary Clouds Fate of American Hikers

The Iranian judiciary on Wednesday contradicted an assurance by Iran's president that two Americans arrested two years ago while hiking the Iran-Iraq frontier and imprisoned on espionage charges would be freed within two days as a humanitarian gesture, state media reported.
The Iranian judiciary on Wednesday contradicted an assurance by Iran's president that two Americans arrested two years...
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13 Sep 2011

Exclusive interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad The president of Iran on his release of the hikers, his next nuclear plan, the Palestinian statehood vote, and more.

The following is an edited transcript of Washington Post senior associate editor Lally Weymouth's interview with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. The interview was conducted in Tehran on Sept. 13.
The following is an edited transcript of Washington Post senior associate editor Lally Weymouth's interview with...
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13 Sep 2011

Ahmadinejad Comes to Town, Don’t Let Him Off the Hook!

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is coming to New York to attend 66th session of the UN General Assembly, loves visiting the Big Apple and relishes his time on the international stage. The media frenzy that has become a tradition since his annual visits began in 2005 is often void of meaningful scrutiny of what is the most important issue to Iranian citizens, namely the Islamic Republic's harsh repression of its people that has escalated into an unprecedented human rights crisis since the disputed reelection of Ahmadinejad in June 2009.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is coming to New York to attend 66th session of the UN General Assembly, loves visiting the Big...
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13 Sep 2011

Iran Will Reportedly Release 2 Jailed Americans

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has said two American hikers jailed for espionage in his country last month will be freed within two days, NBC reported on Tuesday, citing an exclusive interview with the Iranian leader.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has said two American hikers jailed for espionage in his country last month will...
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11 Sep 2011

Playing with Khamenei in Syria’s Field

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s live interview on August 24th with al-Minar Television - the official mouthpiece of Lebanese Hezbollah - in which he discussed events in Syria resulted in much speculations. A behind-the-scenes source knowledgeable with the interview spoke to Rooz about the event.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s live interview on August 24th with al-Minar Television - the official mouthpiece of Lebanese...
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9 Sep 2011

Iran’s President, Ahmadinejad, Calls for End to Syrian Crackdown

For years, posters celebrating the decades-old alliance joining Syria and Iran festooned the streets and automobiles of the Syrian capital the images of Presidents Bashar al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad embroidered with roses and daffodils.
For years, posters celebrating the decades-old alliance joining Syria and Iran festooned the streets and automobiles of...
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25 Aug 2011

Ahmadinejad calls for Syrian dialogue

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the main ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, called Wednesday for dialogue between Damascus and the opposition to end months of violence. "The people and government of Syria must come together to reach an understanding," he told Lebanese Al-Manar television, the station run by the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah movement
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the main ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, called Wednesday for dialogue...
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22 Aug 2011

Families of U.S. hikers imprisoned in Iran stay hopeful

The gap between words by Salehi, Iranian foreign minister and the verdict suggests an increasing rift between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration and hardline judiciary, controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters.
The gap between words by Salehi, Iranian foreign minister and the verdict suggests an increasing rift between President...
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20 Aug 2011

Is the Arrest of Ahmadinejad Imminent

Evidence is piling up that suggests Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will order the arrest of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the not-too-distant future. This conclusion, based largely on information from open sources, is supported by extraordinary new revelations provided by a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who recently spoke with this reporter.
Evidence is piling up that suggests Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will order the arrest of President...
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16 Aug 2011

Ahmadinejad’s newspaper in fight with hardliners over hijab

Iran's ultra-hardliners have gone after a newspaper that acts as a mouthpiece for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after it published a supplement on the Islamic dress code for women in what is perceived as a battle for the loyalty of the country's middle class.
Iran's ultra-hardliners have gone after a newspaper that acts as a mouthpiece for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
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11 Aug 2011

Ahmadinejad appears to have done a deal with IRGC

Getting the military on his side allows him to prepare to challenge Khamenei's nominees in the 2012 presidential elections A major surprise in Iran this week was the appointment of General Rostam Ghasemi who held a post with the Revolutionary Guards as oil minister. A few months ago Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad failed to get approval to give this key job to his loyalist Mohammad Ali Abadi. The oil minister's job has been at the heart of a bitter battle between Ahmadinejad and his conservative opponents headed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is supported by the Guards.
Getting the military on his side allows him to prepare to challenge Khamenei's nominees in the 2012 presidential...
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4 Aug 2011

Ahmadinejad on Mousavi and Karroubi There are Prisons in Every Country

Euronews has posted an extract from an interview with President Ahmadinejad on the fate of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the possibility of a similar uprising in Iran, and the strict house arrests of opposition figures Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi:
Euronews has posted an extract from an interview with President Ahmadinejad on the fate of former Egyptian President...
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4 Aug 2011

Iran’s dangerous concoction of nuclear ambitions and Shiite Messianism

Ahmadinejad s ambitions for achieving nuclear capabilities are hardly one of Iran s great state secrets. Yet it is far less widely known that the Iranian president seats himself within a strongly messianic and indeed apocalyptic strand of Shiite Islam.
Ahmadinejad s ambitions for achieving nuclear capabilities are hardly one of Iran s great state secrets. Yet it is far...
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2 Aug 2011

Is Ahmadinejad’s Romance with U.S. Over?

The embarrassment just doesn't stop for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's beleaguered President. Even before this past weekend, when a third Iranian nuclear scientist was murdered in as many years, gunned down in front of his house in what critics are calling a major security failure, the President's prospects were dimming rapidly.
The embarrassment just doesn't stop for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's beleaguered President. Even before this past...
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2 Aug 2011

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ‘Moderate’

In the ongoing clash between Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, analysts persist in trying to determine who's the more moderate: the Holocaust-denying Ahmadinejad, or Khamenei, the patron of Tehran's murderous revolutionary guards?
In the ongoing clash between Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,...
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2 Aug 2011

What Happened at Khamenei-Majlis Leaders Meeting

Khamenei: I intended to hold this meeting first thing in the morning, but this did not happen. The incident at yesterday s Majlis session has deeply disturbed me and has raised a serious concern. At times some events require one to seek help from God. My unhappiness is because of the disrespect that was provided to the president. You disrespected the president. You have the right to point out things to him, question him, and even censure him but you cannot insult anyone, particularly the president.
Khamenei: I intended to hold this meeting first thing in the morning, but this did not happen. The incident at yesterday...
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1 Aug 2011

Why Ahmadinejad isn’t on his way out

There has been much dancing on the grave of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. After his unnerving re-election two years ago in a disputed and bloody vote, Ahmadinejad's many critics abroad and at home have savored the thorough political beating he has suffered over the last few months by Iran's real power, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei . Yet there are signs that Ahmadinejad is not a spent force just yet. This wily survivor is in the midst of renewing himself. His prime weapon has been a combination of oil supplicance and oil populism.
There has been much dancing on the grave of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. After his unnerving re-election two...
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23 Jul 2011

Iranian President Wants to Openly Develop Nukes

Iran's president wants to shed the nation's secrecy and forge ahead openly with developing nuclear weapons but is opposed by the clerical leadership, which is worried about international reaction to such a move, says an intelligence assessment shared with The Associated Press.
Iran's president wants to shed the nation's secrecy and forge ahead openly with developing nuclear weapons but is...
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21 Jul 2011

Ahmadinejad and clerics fight over scarves

Every summer, Iranian police get tough on women who violate the country s strict Islamic dress code by adjusting their veils and long coats to try to cope with the rising temperatures. But this year, amid the annual crackdown, the issue of how women wear the veil - and what the government does about it - has become part of an intensifying rift between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and powerful Shiite clerics.
Every summer, Iranian police get tough on women who violate the country s strict Islamic dress code by adjusting their...
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16 Jul 2011

Mohammad Khatami’s recent conciliatory stance towards the Iranian government has alienated former supporters.

The world might be distracted by the dramatic events in Syria, Libya, or even Yemen, but the pushing and pulling, jostling and shoving, kicking and elbowing for the post-Ahmadinejad Islamic Republic is well underway.
The world might be distracted by the dramatic events in Syria, Libya, or even Yemen, but the pushing and pulling,...
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15 Jul 2011

Iran’s power struggle is set to escalate

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has suffered an unprecedentedly harsh blow to its credibility during the last few weeks. The Iranian president has witnessed the arrest of officials close to high-ranking members of his cabinet, and has engaged in an escalating war of words with senior conservatives and Iran's judiciary. Even high-ranking members of the Revolutionary Guards, long believed to be politically aligned with Ahmadinejad, have sparred publicly with his administration, with both sides accusing each other of illegal financial dealings.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has suffered an unprecedentedly harsh blow to its credibility during the last few...
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13 Jul 2011

Ahmadinejad urges Arabs to democratize even as his nation doesn’t

Some would consider it rather rich. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who got his post after a widely disputed election and serves under an unelected cleric whose powers are officially second only to God, encouraged Arab governments to heed their people's demands for reform.
Some would consider it rather rich. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who got his post after a widely disputed...
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11 Jul 2011

Khamenei versus Khamenei: Will Ahmadinejad Be Impeached

This is an excerpt from a letter that Mehdi Karroubi wrote to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei protesting the intervention of Khamenei's second son, Seyyed Mojtaba, in the first round of the Iranian presidential election on June 17, 2005. Karroubi ran as a reformist candidate in those elections, and for several hours after the polls closed he was trailing only one other candidate, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
This is an excerpt from a letter that Mehdi Karroubi wrote to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei protesting the intervention of...
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5 Jul 2011

Larijani Preparing for the Presidency?

Two years after the controversial presidential election of 2009 and at the height of the differences between Ahmadinejad and ayatollah Khamenei, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani spoke with reporters and stressed his and Majlis's absolute obedience to the leader and said that velayate faghih (i.e., rule of clerics) was the "outstanding" feature of the Islamic republic. He also criticized Ahmadinejad's administration and said "demonstrations" and "protests" were people rightful rights.
Two years after the controversial presidential election of 2009 and at the height of the differences between Ahmadinejad...
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4 Jul 2011

Ahmadinejad v. The Revolutionary Guards

Ahmadinejad had warned last month, amidst the increasing pressure on his camp with arrests of his advisors, that he could reveal information that would embarrass key officials within the Iranian establishment. Last weekend he told journalists that there was a "red line" against moves on his Cabinet and inner circle --- when State broadcaster IRIB censored the passsage, his staff posted the uncut video on the President's official website.
Ahmadinejad had warned last month, amidst the increasing pressure on his camp with arrests of his advisors, that he...
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4 Jul 2011

Voting For Ahmadinejad Was A Political Mistake

Conservative blogger and journalist Mohammad Mohajeri, who used to write for the ultra-hard-line "Kayhan" daily, seems to believe it was wrong to vote for Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. He says those who made that "mistake" should now admit it:
Conservative blogger and journalist Mohammad Mohajeri, who used to write for the ultra-hard-line "Kayhan" daily, seems...
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1 Jul 2011

Iran state TV censors Ahmadinejad video clip

Iran's state television has censored a video clip that showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemning recent arrests of his close allies. Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), which is under the direct control of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, transmitted only an edited version of the remarks made by Ahmadinejad after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, removing any mention of his comments over the arrests.
Iran's state television has censored a video clip that showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemning recent arrests of...
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30 Jun 2011

Iranian President Warns Against Arrest of Allies

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned authorities against arresting members of his government on charges of corruption. Ahmadinejad said Wednesday the arrests are politically motivated and an attempt to put pressure on his government.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned authorities against arresting members of his government on charges of...
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28 Jun 2011

Reason for Ahmadinejad’s Absence at Supreme Leader’s Meeting

The crisis between Ahmadinejad supporters and the regime leadership in Tehran is expanding by the day. The arrest of Ahmadinejad s four close allies and his absence at a meeting that ayatollah Khamenei had with visiting Afghan President Karzai last week may be more signs of the return of the domestic crises and the concluding phase of the confrontation
The crisis between Ahmadinejad supporters and the regime leadership in Tehran is expanding by the day. The arrest of...
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23 Jun 2011

Ahmadinejad’s ally ‘arrested’ in Iran

Iran's ex-deputy foreign minister - an ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - has been arrested on unspecified charges, an unnamed official has told the semi-official Fars news agency. Malekzadeh had resigned from his position as deputy foreign minister on Tuesday.
Iran's ex-deputy foreign minister - an ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - has been arrested on unspecified charges,...
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23 Jun 2011

Enfeebling Ahmadinejad: Iran’s President Downsized for Challenging the Ayatullah

How do you say "lame duck" in Farsi? (According to Google's translation service, the answer would be: ???? ???????) And in a twist worthy of Game of Thrones, less than two years after his disputed reelection and the brutal crackdown on opponents that followed, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been reduced to a ???? ???????. And that's just about where the clerical Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei -- who abandoned the political neutrality required of his office in 2009 to hail Ahmadinejad as the candidate whose views were closest to his own -- wants the president.
How do you say "lame duck" in Farsi? (According to Google's translation service, the answer would be: ???? ???????) And...
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22 Jun 2011

Ally of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad resigns

In another blow to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a controversial deputy foreign minister allied with Ahmadinejad's increasingly embattled and isolated clique resigned Tuesday under pressure from hard-liners who threatened to impeach the country's top diplomat over the appointment.
In another blow to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a controversial deputy foreign minister allied with...
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21 Jun 2011

Majlis to Ask Questions of Ahmadinejad in 10 Days

Majlis representative Ali Motahari announced that within the next ten days he was going to submit questions for Ahmadinejad to the Majlis leadership. This principlist MP who is a critic of the administration said that 90 legislators had signed the resolution adding that the MPs 'insist that the issue move forward as quickly as possible.'
Majlis representative Ali Motahari announced that within the next ten days he was going to submit questions for...
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17 Jun 2011

Ahmadinejad aides targeted by Parliament

Iran's Parliament announced that it has received a series of reports questioning the actions of Esfandiar Rahim Mashai and Hamid Baghai, two chief presidential aides to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Fars reports that the complaints passed along to Parliament refer to a 'disruption perpetuated by the deviant current in the country s administration.'
Iran's Parliament announced that it has received a series of reports questioning the actions of Esfandiar Rahim Mashai...
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14 Jun 2011

Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader

Particularly frightening is the deep ignorance about the world that Ahmadinejad and his co-thinkers display repeatedly in Naji's portrayal. The author's account of Ahmadinejad's statements about the Holocaust brings out the full extent of the latter's lack of interest in learning what the facts of a situation are: He has his views, and that is good enough for him, the facts be damned.
Particularly frightening is the deep ignorance about the world that Ahmadinejad and his co-thinkers display repeatedly...
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9 Jun 2011

Ahmadinejad Isolated by Battle With Iran’s Supreme Leader

Speaking at the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khomeini last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was interrupted several times by chants against his closest aide and the man he'd like to succeed him, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei.
Speaking at the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khomeini last week, Iranian President Mahmoud...
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