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Tehran, Jan 8 (DPA) The car of one of Iran’s opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi, was hit by gunfire but the cleric was unharmed, opposition websites reported Friday.
Karroubi is believed to have attended a mourning ceremony Friday in the city of Qazvin, west of the capital Tehran, when some 500 government supporters attacked the ceremony. The [...]
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Tehran, Jan 7 (DPA) Iran and Syria plan to create a new world order, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday.
‘Iran and Syria have a joint mission to create a new world order on the basis of justice, humanity and belief in God,’ Ahmadinejad told visiting Syrian Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Abrash.
Syria is Iran’s main ally in [...]
Tehran, Dec 30 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday blamed the latest unrest in his country on the US and Israel, the ISNA news agency reported.
‘This is a play staged by the US and Zionists (Israel) which just makes us puke,’ said Ahmadinejad in his first reaction to Sunday’s protests against him and his government.
‘Both [...]
Washington, Dec 29 (DPA) US President Barack Obama Monday condemned Iran for violently cracking down on demonstrations, warning the Islamic state it will not succeed in denying people their universal rights.
‘The United States joins with the international community in strongly condemning the violent and unjust suppression of innocent Iranian citizens,’ Obama said while on winter [...]
Tehran, Dec 28 (DPA) The nephew of Iranian reformist opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi was among those killed during protests in Tehran, the opposition claimed Sunday – one of several people apparently killed during a day of demonstrations across the country which also saw at least 300 people arrested.
After a confusing day of rumour, denial and [...]
Tehran, Dec 27 (DPA) Demonstrators returned to the streets of Tehran Sunday and police fired tear gas to quell the protests, witnesses and opposition website reports said.
The protests were reportedly held near Tehran University in the city’s centre, which was the scene of protests and clashes Saturday as well.
Police deployed throughout the Iranian capital Sunday [...]
Tehran, Dec 26 (DPA) There were renewed political protests on Saturday in Tehran and police fired tear gas shells to disperse the crowds, an Iranian opposition website reported.
The Jaras website, which is close to the Green Movement led by former prime minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi, said clashes between an unspecified number of protesters and police broke [...]
Tehran, Dec 26 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday termed European politicians ‘one more stupid than the other’.
‘These (European) politicians neither know anything about politics nor about history,’ Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in a speech at at Arak mosque in Tehran.
‘For example, they come and say let’s destroy the minarets of the [...]
Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) December is ‘a very real deadline’ for Iran to ‘pursue its responsibilities’ on the nuclear issue, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.
Responding to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s defiance over a year-end deadline to accept a uranium-swap deal, Gibbs said while Ahmadinejad ‘may not recognise…the deadline that looms, but that is [...]
Tehran, Dec 22 (DPA) Iranian dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri was buried in the religious city of Qom Monday, a day after he died at the age of 87.
According to witnesses and opposition websites, tens of thousands of people, including a large number of local opposition figures, attended the funeral and turned it into [...]
London, Dec. 21 (ANI): The BBC has claimed that its Persian television signal was being jammed following the airing stories on the death of Iran’s top dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.
The corporation said its service for [...]
Dubai, Dec. 21 (ANI): Iran has sent riots squads into the holy city of Qom to quell protests over the death of Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, the Islamic Republic’s most senior dissident cleric, the BBC reports.
Montazeri died of a heart attack at the age of 87. His grandson, Nasser [...]
Tehran, Dec 20 (DPA) Iranian ex-president Mohammad Khatami said that people should not be punished just for seeking their legitimate rights, the labour news agency ILNA reported Sunday.
‘One of the most important aspects of suppression is that people should pay a price for just getting their rights,’ the reformist cleric told a group of journalists.
Khatami [...]
Tehran, Dec 20 (DPA) The Iranian Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, a fierce critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has died.
Montazeri died Saturday night in his sleep at his home in the religious city of Qom after a long illness, the reports said.
The ayatollah had been banished from politics since the late revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, [...]
Tehran, Dec 20 (DPA) The Iranian Grand Ayatollah, Hossein-Ali Montazeri, has died, state media reported Sunday.
Montazeri died Saturday night in his sleep at his home in the religious city of Qom after a long illness, the reports said.
The ayatollah had been banished from politics since the late revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, dismissed him [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 17 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday accused the US of hindering his country’s efforts to combat climate change by opposing its nuclear programme.
‘American leaders and their friends emphasise continued increase of fossil fuel production, whilst they resort to various coercive methods to hinder development of new technologies intended to promote the use [...]
Tehran, Dec 15 (DPA) Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on the Palestinian militant group Hamas Tuesday to continue resistance against Israel as the only way to save Palestine, state media reported.
‘The only way to save Palestine is resistance and victory belongs to those who believe in God and Jihad (holy war) in God’s [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 15 (DPA) The first of over 100 heads of state and government and other leaders arrived Tuesday in Copenhagen for the closing days of the United Nations climate change talks.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was one of the first heads of states to arrive Tuesday as did UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Danish organisers [...]
Tehran, Dec 13 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday promised the Palestinian militant group Hamas continued support in their fight against Israel, state television reported.
In a meeting with visiting Hamas politburo head Khaled Meshaal, Ahmadinejad said that Iran would constantly stand besides the Palestinian nation until what he called ‘imminent collapse of the Zionist regime [...]
Tehran, Dec 10 (IANS/AKI) Shirin Neshat is leading a new generation of Iranian filmmakers who are creating films that may never be screened in their own country.
Neshat, who won the coveted Silver Award at the Venice Film Festival this year for her directorial debut ‘Women Without Men’, has become increasingly critical of the politics in [...]
Tehran, Dec 9 (DPA) Iran does not want further escalation in the dispute over its nuclear programmes and wants talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday.
‘We do not welcome any escalation and are ready to hold further talks [with world powers] over global issues,’ Ahmadinejad said after a cabinet session in Tehran, [...]
Tehran, Dec 7 (DPA) Police fired tear gas against protestors near Tehran University in Iran Monday, trying to quell demonstrations against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, witnesses said.
The witnesses also reported clashes between supporters and opponents of the president.
The clashes occurred after the protestors shouted slogans against the president such as ‘Death to the Dictator’ and not [...]
Vienna/Tehran, Dec 1 (DPA) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is still awaiting information from Iran on the ten additional nuclear sites that the country plans to build, the IAEA’s spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday announced plans for the uranium enrichment plants as a reaction to a resolution by the IAEA’s governing board [...]
Tehran, Nov 30(ANI): Two days after world powers ordered Iran to halt the construction of a uranium enrichment plant near Qom, Iran has announced that it has plans to build ten new plants to escalate its nuclear programmes.
The announcement was made by [...]
Tehran, Nov 30 (DPA) Iran’s government has ordered construction of 10 more uranium enrichment sites, the ISNA news agency reported.
Construction of five of the sites at existing locations should start within the next two months, and suitable locations will be found for the remaining five, said an order handed down to the Iranian atomic agency [...]
Caracas, Nov 27 (EFE) President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have consolidated a relationship here that the former called ‘exemplary’. They signed new accords and gave speeches defending their cooperation.
In a signing ceremony for several joint projects at Miraflores Palace Wednesday, the two leaders agreed that ‘accusations of violence’ against them [...]
Brasilia, Nov 26 (DPA) US President Barack Obama wrote a letter to his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to express his concern about the situation in Iran and Honduras, officials said Wednesday.
The letter was sent Sunday, a day before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Brazil on the first leg of a South [...]
Buenos Aires, Nov 25 (DPA) Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said US President Barack Obama ‘is doing nothing for the peace process’ in the Middle East.
‘For now he is doing nothing, but he has invited us to revive the peace process. I hope that in the future he can play a more important [...]
Tehran, Nov 22 (DPA) Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were scheduled to begin military manoeuvres Sunday, the news network Khabar reported.
The exercises will last for five days and mainly focus on testing the air force capabilities and protective measures in case of any potential attacks against the country’s nuclear sites, it said.
Military manoeuvres have recently increased following [...]
Berlin/Brussels, Nov 20 (DPA) Top diplomats from the so-called ‘5+1′ group of world powers expressed disappointment Friday at Iran’s rejection of a compromise deal on the country’s controversial nuclear programme and urged its leaders to reconsider.
‘We urge Iran to reconsider the opportunity offered by this agreement to meet the humanitarian needs of its people and [...]
