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New York, July 5 (ANI): Defying Iran’s supreme leader and emerging as one of the most public signs of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment, the most important group of religious leaders in the country has called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate.

A statement by the group, the Association of [...]

Washington, June 27 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has said that prospects for a dialogue with Iran have been dampened by the brutal government crackdown on the opposition following the nation’s disputed presidential election.

Addressing a joint news conference at the White House [...]

Tehran – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday vowed not to make any compromise with the West and defended his remarks against Israel and on the Holocaust.
“We will never surrender to bullying powers, and those who think that we might make any compromise and give in to Western pressures and psychological war are badly [...]

Tehran – Narrow-mindedness is having a detrimental effect on Iran, presidential candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi said Tuesday, in what was taken as an attack on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejan.
“Some narrow-minded people are building a wall to block new ideas from the new generation. Such walls of narrow-mindedness are definitely against all our ideals and goals,” Moussavi [...]

Tehran – Iran’s judiciary restored access to Facebook Tuesday after the blocking of the social-networking website led to a heated debate in Iran’s presidential campaign.
Facebook was blocked Saturday, and the labour news agency ILNA, which supports moderate Mir-Hossein Moussavi in the June 12 presidential election, denounced the action as a political move by President [...]

Tehran – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday invited United States President Barack Obama to a debate at the United Nations in New York.
“I want a debate with the US president at the UN in New York so that the whole world could listen and make its own judgement,” Ahmadinejad said at a press [...]

Tehran – Incumbent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected Saturday all criticisms against the current administration raised by his challengers in next month’s presidential elections threatening them to reveal their past performances.
Ahmadinejad’s rivals in the June 12 elections, the two moderate candidates Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi as well as the conservative candidate Mohsen Rezaei, [...]

Tehran – Incumbent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected Saturday all criticisms against the current administration raised by his challengers in next month’s presidential elections threatening them to reveal their past performances.
Ahmadinejad’s rivals in the June 12 elections, the two moderate candidates Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi as well as the conservative candidate Mohsen Rezaei, [...]

Tehran – In his first official campaign speech, incumbent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday accused his challengers in next month’s presidential election of wanting a policy of détente with the West.
“The previous government (of Mohammad Khatami) which followed a detente policy de facto eradicated the goals of the nation and intended to accept [...]

Tehran – Iranian presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei on Friday promised to pay salaries to housewives in Iran, the labour news agency ILNA reported.
“I will not only use women in key positions but also use their potentials in management and will further legalize the housewife job and pay housewives a salary,” Rezaei said in a statement [...]

Tehran – Moderate Iranian presidential hopeful Mir-Hossein Moussavi on Monday accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of being a radical, particularly in foreign policy.
In his first news conference in Tehran, the former prime minister accused the hardline president of radical policies that “severely harmed our national interests.”
“Extremism brings heavy costs for us, such as chanting harshly worded [...]

ehran – Moderate Iranian presidential hopeful Mir-Hossein Moussavi on Monday accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of being a radical, particularly in foreign policy.
In his first news conference in Tehran, the former prime minister accused the hardline president of radical policies that “severely harmed our national interests.”
“Extremism brings heavy costs for us, such as chanting harshly worded [...]

Tehran – Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has called on all opposition groups to unite in order to replace President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the upcoming elections, the ISNA news agency reported Thursday.
“The society has reached a juncture in which all [political groups] should try to change the political status quo,” Khatami told a group of [...]

Tehran – Iranian presidential candidate and former prime minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi on Saturday criticized the economic programmes of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and blamed him for not considering the hard times when the oil price was high.
“When we had a lot of foreign currency income (through oil exports), we did not plan anything for the [...]

Tehran – Former Iranian prime minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi said Tuesday he was prepared to run in the June 12 presidential election, ISNA news agency reported.
Moussavi is a moderate technocrat opposing the policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and considered close to the two other candidates, Mohammad Khatami and Mehdi Karroubi.
Moussavi, born in 1941 in Khameneh, north-western [...]