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An Iranian news agency says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's former press adviser has been sentenced to six months in jail.Monday's report by the semiofficial Mehr news agency provided no further details, but Ali Akbar Javanfekr had been previously convicted of insulting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.The case appears to be part of an ongoing power struggle between Ahmadinejad's backers and Khamenei loyalists.Last year, Javanfekr...  

(Updates with IAEA monitoring of nuclear facilities in 11th paragraph.) Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s announcement that he will soon unveil a “major” nuclear development may be part a strategy he’s ...  

TEHRAN, Feb 13, 2012 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Visiting Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu has urged Iran to enhance cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Ma made the remarks Sunday during talks with Ali Baqeri, deputy ...  

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran will soon unveil "big new" nuclear achievements, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday while reiterating Tehran's readiness to revive talks with the West over the country's controversial nuclear program.  

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accepted an invitation to travel to China before the end of the Iranian calendar-year on March 19, the state-run Fars news agency reported, citing Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi. Salehi did not elaborate ...  

TEHRAN – In a meeting in Tehran on Sunday, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described resistance as the only way to the victory of Palestinians and the liberation of the occupied territories. Ahmadinejad said ...  

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the Islamic Republic would soon announce "very important" achievements in the nuclear field, state TV reported. He was speaking on the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Tens of thousands of Iranians joined state-organized rallies across the country to mark the occasion. Demonstrators carrying Iranian flags and pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei chanted "Death to...  

Iranians, some holding placards declaring "Death to America" and "Death to Israel", on Saturday marked the anniversary of their country's 1979 Islamic revolution with mass marches and a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  

Following trips to China by Western world leaders trying to persuade the Chinese to reduce their oil imports from Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi announced that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will soon travel to China, and a Chinese envoy will visit Tehran in the next couple of days.  

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will soon reveal "very big new nuclear achievements." Ahmadinejad spoke at a rally in Tehran on Saturday as Iranians marked the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the country ...  

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will disclose new nuclear projects in the coming days, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday. "Within the coming days we will witness (the) opening and operation of new nuclear projects in Iran," Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony ...  

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he deliver his speech at a rally to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the country's pro-Western monarchy and brought Islamic clerics to power, Tehran, Saturday, Feb.  

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called sanctions against Iran 'ineffective' as his country took action to make sure they stayed that way. Davutoglu spoke at a press conference on Friday. Turkey has dismissed the US-led sanctions against Iran as ineffective and cautioned that any military strike against the Islamic Republic would create a disaster in the region.During a news conference  

TEHRAN (AFP) - A defiant Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Saturday to inaugurate 'important nuclear projects' within ... A crowd of an estimated 30,000 people in central Tehran cheered Mr Ahmadinejad's words. Many held aloft ...  

Every news agency in the world is 'being a good little doggy, lying on its back and pissing on its corporate stomach' by lazily RE-DISTRIBUTING the original and heavily editorially biased Rothschild Reuters report about Iranian leader Ahmedinejad's MAJOR NUCLEAR ANNOUNCEMENT, without actually looking into the detail of the speech.Demonstrators carrying Iranian flags and pictures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei chanted "Death to Israel...