Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei (born 1939) followed Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini as supreme spiritual and political leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A favored Khomeini disciple, key revolutionary...
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Tehran (dpa) - Iran's ex-president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani on
Friday played down his election victory in the Assembly of Experts,
the country's highest religious body.
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Iran's supreme leader accused the United States of damaging relations between Iran and Iraq and charged that American and Israeli agents were behind the Iraqi insurgency, state-run Iranian televisi...
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Manama (dpa) - Protesters hit the streets of the Bahraini capital
Manama on Friday in response to an Iranian newspaper editorial
claiming that Bahrain was a province that sh...
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named a new head for the elite Revolutionary Guard, an organization Washington is looking to list as a terrorist group, state media announced Saturday.N...
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Tehran (dpa) - The former commander replaced as head of Iran's
paramilitary Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Sunday played down the
replacement, saying the change was "quite natu...
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Manama, Bahrain (dpa) - Protesters hit the streets of the Bahraini
capital Manama on Friday in response to an Iranian newspaper
editorial claiming that Bahrain was a provinc...
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Tehran (dpa) - Iran's supreme leader Friday compared the US
President to Adolf Hitler and predicted that George W Bush
would eventually be brought to court as a war criminal...
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Tehran (dpa) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday
that Iran would spare no effort to help the Iraqi nation and
government, state news agency IRNA reported.
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Sayyid Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah
Iran's ex-president plays down election victory in clergy assembly
