ARTICLES RELATING TO MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD

Iran's Ahmadinejad meets successor

2013-06-18 16:57

Iran's outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has met his successor Hassan Rowhani for the first time since the moderate conservative was elected.

Moderate cleric wins Iran vote

2013-06-15 20:01

Moderate cleric Hasan Rowhani has been declared the winner of Iran's presidential vote after gaining support among many reform-minded Iranians.

Reformists hopeful as Iran goes to polls

2013-06-14 11:25

Iranians have voted to choose a new president in an election the reformists hope their sole candidate will win in the face of divided conservative ranks.

Iran women see flicker of hope for rights

2013-06-12 13:01

Iran's presidential election is offering a flicker of hope to activists hoping to revive women's rights after they deteriorated during the eight years of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency.

Iran's Khamenei warns candidates

2013-06-04 14:00

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that the country's next president should avoid making "concessions" to the west, saying this would not diffuse tensions.

Ahmadinejad to 'challenge' ally's banning

2013-05-22 11:01

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will take up the ban of his close aide from the presidential election with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reports Iranian media.

Iran's presidential race officially opens

2013-05-07 11:03

Iranian authorities have opened the registration process for candidates in next month's presidential election that will pick a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Trial begins in Iranian 'James Bond' case

2013-04-24 11:01

The case against an Iranian-American man accused of helping Iran launch its first satellite has started, and has been likened to a movie script story.

Iran's Ahmadinejad mourns 'martyr' Chavez

2013-03-06 12:00

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has paid tribute to late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez saying he had fallen "martyr" to a "suspect illness".

Yemen demands Iran halt insurgent support

2013-02-08 09:28

Yemen's president has asked his Iranian counterpart to stop backing armed groups on its soil after coastguards seized missiles and rockets believed sent by the Islamic Republic.

Syria dominates Islamic summit

2013-02-07 16:51

Leaders of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation states have met for the final day of a summit dominated by the Syrian conflict that has divided the Muslim world along sectarian lines.

Iran downplays Ahmadinejad shoe attack

2013-02-06 18:49

Iran's foreign ministry has downplayed an incident in Cairo in which a protester tried to throw a shoe at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Egypt’s top cleric scolds Ahmadinejad

2013-02-06 10:07

Egypt's top cleric has told visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to interfere in the affairs of Bahrain or other Gulf states, and to uphold the rights of his country’s Sunni minority.

Iran's president ready for space travel

2013-02-04 19:03

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he's ready to take the risk of being the first Iranian astronaut sent into space as part of Iran's goal of a manned space flight.

Ahmadinejad slams forced Islamic values

2012-12-31 22:01

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has again spoken out against the use of pressure to impose Islamic values on people, especially university candidates.

US massacre: Iran offers sympathy

2012-12-17 11:33

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has extended his sympathies to the families of the victims of the shooting that killed 20 children at an elementary school in the US.

Ahmadinejad hails Hamas 'victory'

2012-11-24 14:00
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Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has congratulated Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya in a telephone call on a "great victory" over Israel.

Ahmadinejad slams big-spending US polls

2012-11-08 10:01

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed US elections as a "battleground for the capitalists", a day after Barack Obama's re-election.

Protests in Iran over currency crisis

2012-10-04 09:44

Scuffles have broken out in central Tehran in the first sign of unrest over Iran's plunging currency, which has lost more than half its value in a week.

Iran blocks Gmail - a swipe too far

2012-09-30 21:41

Iran's cyber monitors often tout their fight against the West's "soft war" of influence through the Web, but trying to block Google's popular Gmail appeared to be a swipe too far.

Ahmadinejad slams West's 'intimidation'

2012-09-27 10:01

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused the West and Israel of nuclear "intimidation", after US President Barack Obama vowed to halt Tehran's alleged weapons programme.

West turns up heat on Iran, Syria at UN

2012-09-26 09:00

Western and Arab leaders have ramped up the pressure on Syria and Iran at the United Nations, with US President Barack Obama vowing to keep Tehran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons.

Backing gays is for 'capitalists'

2012-09-25 09:02

Supporting homosexuality is the stuff of hardline capitalists who do not care about real human values, says Iran's president.

Iran parades military, warns Israel

2012-09-21 14:01
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Iran has warned Israel and the United States against any aggression, as it parades its troops and military hardware under the gaze of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and top brass.

Iran unveils new missile, other weapons

2012-08-21 17:18

Iran has unveiled upgrades to six weapons, including a more accurate short-range missile and a more powerful naval engine, reports local media.

 

Israel: Iran sanctions should increase

2013-06-16 21:19

Israel warned the international community against easing sanctions on Iran following the election of a reformist-backed president.

Early results give Iran moderate clear lead

2013-06-15 09:30

With results in from 10% of the polling stations, moderate candidate Hassan Rowhani has a clear lead, with 49.87% of the vote in Iran's presidential election, the interior ministry says.

Big Iran voter turnout will 'frustrate foes'

2013-06-12 21:58

Iran's supreme leader has urged voters to turn out in big numbers for a presidential election, saying such a show will frustrate Tehran's enemies.

Khamenei wants no one to jolt his power

2013-06-10 15:00

Five days from Iran's presidential election, these are nervy times for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who as only the second Supreme Leader in the Islamic Republic's history answers to God and not voters.

Khamenei has 'no favourite' in election

2013-05-29 17:28

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says he does not favour any candidate for June's presidential election, although hardliners with outlooks similar to his dominate the field.

Iranian women presidential hopes crushed

2013-05-16 16:11

A member of Iran's constitutional watchdog says women cannot be presidential candidates, effectively killing the long-shot bids by about 30 women seeking to run in the 14 June election.

Editor held after claims of voter fraud

2013-05-06 20:03

A journalist for an Iranian news website says its editor has been arrested, after reporting that there is an audiotape of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussing vote rigging.

Ahmadinejad in trouble for 'forbidden' hug

2013-03-12 12:01

Senior Iranian clerics have criticised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for consoling Hugo Chavez's mother with a hug — a physical contact considered a sin under the country's strict Islamic codes.

Iran frees 14 journalists - report

2013-03-03 14:45

Iran has freed 14 journalist working for reformist papers who were arrested in January and accused of cooperating with a "Western-linked network", the reformist Shargh newspaper reported on Sunday.

Iran officials ordered to stop feuding

2013-02-07 17:39

Iran's supreme leader has ordered officials to stop feuding, days after a bitter battle between two of the country's most powerful politicians erupted in public.

Ahmadinejad 'not taking sides' in Syria

2013-02-07 15:00

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called upon Syrian President Bashar Assad and rebels trying to unseat his regime to negotiate an end to a two-year-old conflict.

Iran ex-prosecutor released from custody

2013-02-06 14:01

Tehran's ex-prosecutor and controversial ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been released from prison after almost two days in detention, say Iranian media reports.

Iran official held for prison deaths

2013-02-05 14:03

A Iranian official and former Tehran prosecutor general has been arrested, two years after a probe found him responsible for deaths of at least three jailed anti-government protesters.

Renewed talks on Iranian nuclear probe

2013-01-16 20:05

Senior UN investigators has opened a new round of talks with Iranian officials in the hopes of restarting a probe into allegations that they carried out atomic bomb trigger tests.

Western sanctions 'won't stop Iran'

2012-12-18 16:03

Iran's president says Western sanctions could cause a short delay in Tehran’s nuclear programme but will not slow it down substantially.

Iranian A bomb would trigger arms race

2012-12-05 22:19

A nuclear-armed Iran would cause a regional arms race and make Tehran more isolated and vulnerable.

Iran not ruling out nuclear talks with US

2012-11-08 21:16

Iran, reeling from international sanctions over its nuclear programme, does not rule out direct talks with Washington but says they will not come overnight.

Hezbollah part of Assad's war machine: US

2012-10-16 11:00

The United States says Lebanon's Hezbollah militia is stepping up support for the Syrian government and has become part of President Bashar Assad's "killing machine".

Iran presses on despite currency woes

2012-10-03 11:03

Iran will press on with its nuclear programme despite the problems caused by Western sanctions, including a dramatic slide in the value of its currency, says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Netanyahu, Abbas to make rival UN pitches

2012-09-27 11:01

The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority are both set to address the United Nations, one seeking recognition for his state, the other warning of a dire threat to his.

Syria army HQ bombed as UN seeks peace

2012-09-27 09:01

Two bombs have struck the Syrian army headquarters in the heart of Damascus, while US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has appealed for the UN Security Council to find a way to end the conflict.

Ahmadinejad dismisses threats on nukes

2012-09-25 11:02

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed threats of military action against Iran's nuclear programme, arguing that his country's project to enrich uranium is only for peaceful purposes.

Israel will be eliminated - Ahmadinejad

2012-09-24 22:43

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has disregarded a UN warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric and declared that Israel has no roots in the Middle East and will be "eliminated."

Netanyahu denies meddling in US election

2012-09-14 13:10

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied accusations he is interfering in the US presidential vote by pushing President Barack Obama to take a tougher stand on Iran.

'Tumour' of Israel will soon be destroyed

2012-08-17 16:22
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Israel is a "cancerous tumour" that will soon be finished off, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told demonstrators holding a protest against the existence of the Jewish state.

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