A community portal about Iran with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and formerly known as Persia in the West, is a southwest Asian country located in the Middle East...
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A community portal about Iran with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and formerly known as Persia in the West, is a southwest Asian country located in the Middle East. Iran borders Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, and Turkey and Iraq to the west. In addition, it borders the Persian Gulf, across which lie Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Shi'a Islam is the official state religion and Persian the official language.
Iran's Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution announced late Tuesday that it had removed opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi from his position as head of the Academy of Arts, apparently at the behest of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Security forces clashed with opposition protesters gathered Wednesday for a memorial for Iran's most senior dissident cleric, beating men and women and firing tear gas, reformist Web sites reported.
The gathering at the main mosque in the central city of Isfahan, 200 miles (325 kilometers) southeast of Tehran, was meant to honor Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the spiritual leader of the Iranian reformist movement...
Millions of Americans tuned in (and millions more around the world saw clips) as Diane Sawyer made her full-time debut behind the anchor desk Monday night for World News with Diane Sawyer and shared an exclusive sit-down interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They heard Sawyer level harsh accusations at Ahmadinejad about Irans nuclear program, its treatment of its citizens as well as of three American hikers arrested after they...
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday mocked U.S. President Barack Obama's "extended hand" offer made earlier this year and said his country's cooperation on its nuclear program had been spurned.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president on Tuesday dismissed a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration and the West for Tehran to accept a U.N.-drafted deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. The United States warned Iran to take the deadline seriously. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also accused the U.S. of fabricating a purported Iranian secret document that appears to lay out a plan for developing a critical component of an atomic bomb...
TEHRAN (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday dismissed the West's year-end deadline for Iran to accept an enrichment fuel deal aimed at calming international fears about its nuclear program . "Who are they to set us a deadline ...
CBC.caAhmadinejad Iran nuclear trigger report a forgeryMoneycontrol.comA leaked memo appearing to show Tehran's efforts to design an atomic bomb trigger was forged by the United States, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a US news programme. Ahmadinejad was asked by ABC News about a report in London's Times ...Ahmadinejad dismisses US deadline for nuclear dealThe Associated PressWorld powers discuss options should Iran miss nuclear...
As
anticipated, the funeral for dissident Iranian cleric Hossein
Ali Montazeri
turned into a massive anti-government protest:
Hundreds of thousands of opposition protesters openly
challenged the authority of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, today by mourning the death of a dissident cleric
who had questioned Khamenei's fitness to rule.
...the event turned into the opposition Green...
The White House has been lobbying other nations to join the U.S. in possibly imposing various new sanctions on Iran's financial sector.
Iran - United Nations Security Council - White House - Middle East - Nuclear weapon
Documents revealed last week that appear to show Tehran is working on a nuclear bomb trigger were "forged" by Washington, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told a US news network."They are all fabricated bunch of papers continuously being forged and disseminated by the American government," Ahmadinejad told ABC News in an interview aired Monday when asked about the confidential documents first revealed in London's The Times newspaper.
In a television interview with ABC News broadcast on Monday night, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rejected charges that a memo published last week by a British newspaper proves that Iran has been working on a trigger for a nuclear weapon.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounced a secret nuclear document unearthed by The Times of London as an American government forgery Monday, as the top U.S. general warned that military force could not be ruled out against Iran's nuke facilities.
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's president on Tuesday dismissed a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration and the West for Tehran to accept a U.N.-drafted deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, and claimed his government is now "10 times stronger" than a year ago. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks underscored Tehran's defiance amid the nuclear standoff and also sought to send a message that his government had not been weakened by the...
THOUSANDS OF Iranians gathered yesterday in the holy city of Qom to mourn Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, the countrys most prominent dissident cleric and harshest critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. His death from natural causes at 87 was announced by his family early in the day. But the authorities, fearing demonstrations against the regime by the opposition Green Movement, withheld the news for 10 hours. He will be buried today...
The grand ayatollah's death leaves a hole in Iran's opposition. With his religious credentials, he was a thorn in Khamenei's sideThe death of Grand Ayatollah Hosein Ali Montazeri was good news for Iran's supreme leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei. With his passing, one of his biggest religious opponents is now out of the way.Khamenei's animosity towards Montazeri ran deep – in fact it was personal. Montazeri had dared question his religious...