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Iran Ahmadinejad to contest bar on ally
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hit out at a decision to disqualify a close ally from a vote to elect his successor, while former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had no objections to his own omission. The conservative-dominated Guardians Council on Tuesday eliminated both Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie and Rafsanjani from a list of eight candidates for the June 14 poll, and those ...
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Armenian government conducts talks with Russia and Iran over gas price
Armenian government conducts talks with Russia and Iran over gas price, said Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, APA-Economics reports. ‘Armenia is using its leverage to get a low price for imported gas and is holding negotiations with Iran and our strategic ally Russia. We are holding high level political talks with Russia to find ways to lower or subsidize the price’, ...
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Iranian president to challenge ban against aide from election
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that he will take up the ban against his top aide, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, from running in the upcoming presidential election with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, semi-official ISNA news agency ...
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Iran Elections Key Players Barred From Race
Iran's President has said he will raise the decision to ban a close aid from standing in forthcoming elections with the country's Supreme Leader. Iran's Guardian Council announced an approved list of candidates for the June Presidential election - but the list did not include Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's former chief of staff. Also barred ...
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Washington Criticizes Iran After Two Key Presidential Candidates Barred
The United States has criticized Iran after authorities there barred two potentially key candidates from running in next month's presidential election. Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie -- a close aide to outgoing President Mahmud Ahmadinejad -- were denied a place on the ballot by the Guardians Council of clerics and jurists. Only eight of nearly ...
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AP condemns Irans interference in Bahrains internal affairs
Cairo, May 22 (BNA) - The Arab Parliament denounced the remarks said by Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hussain Amir Abdullahyan on the Kingdom of Bahrain, considering the same as unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and uncharacteristic behavior in international relations and contrary to all international laws and ...
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Duo barred from Iran election
Ex-president Akbar Hachemi Rafsanjani and former chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei barred from running in June's presidential ...
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Rafsanjani Ahmadineajd aide barred from Iranian elections US weighs in
A selection of Iranian newspapers showing the buzz around the former president Rafsanjani. AFP Photo Following the disqualification of hundreds of would-be presidential candidates in Iran, including two top figures from the ballot, the United States slammed the Islamic Republic's electoral body on Tuesday for "vague" decision-making."It appears that Iran's unelected ...
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Syria crisis Iranian troops join battle for Qusair
o US says Iranians fighting alongside Syria and Hezbollah o Friends of Syria set to discuss arming rebelso Kidnapped Egyptian police freed in ...
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Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad aide cut from Iran presidential race
Out: Two-term former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (left) and incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been disqualified from Iran's June 14 presidential election. | ...
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US slams disqualification of Iranian poll candidates
Following the disqualification of hundreds of would-be presidential candidates in Iran, including two top figures from the ballot, the United States slammed the Islamic Republic's electoral body on Tuesday for "vague" decision-making. "It appears that Iran's unelected Guardian Council, which is unaccountable to the Iranian people, has disqualified hundreds of potential ...
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Iran bans two election candidates
Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili. Mr Jalili is one of eight approved candidates in the upcoming election. Photograph: Osman ...
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Iranian spy ring 10 more nabbed
Ten more people involved in an Iranian espionage cell that was dismantled in March have been arrested in Saudi Arabia. The new cell comprised eight Saudis, one Lebanese and one Turkish national. Meanwhile, a Lebanese citizen held in connection with the first cell was released due to lack of evidence linking him with other suspects. A total of 27 suspects -- all residents of the Kingdom -- are ...
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Top figures barred from Irans presidential ballot
Iran's election overseers removed potential wild-card candidates from the presidential race Tuesday, blocking a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a former president who revived hopes of ...
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Irans presidential election registration wraps up
BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The five-day candidate registration period of Iran's June 14th presidential election has wrapped up. Over 680 candidates, including Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi-Raf-san-jani, close aide to the current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Es-fan-diar Rahim Masha-ei and Iran's top nuclear negotiator and the secretary of the country's Supreme ...
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Iran bars Rafsanjani from standing for president
Iran said Tuesday the moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was among those barred from standing in next month's presidential election, provoking a sharp reaction from Washington. Rafsanjani and a controversial aide of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been ruled unsuitable, the interior ministry said Tuesday. The Guardians Council, a conservative-dominated vetting body, omitted ...
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UPDATE 1-S.Koreas Iran crude imports for April down 44.4 pct yy
Wed May 22, 2013 1:41am EDT * Crude imports from Iran in April at 4.18 mln bbls -data * Iranian imports for month below expectations * Total April crude imports at 69.12 mln bbls, down 5.6 pct y/y * Dec 2012-April 2013 Iran crude imports at 157,596 bpd (Adds details) By Meeyoung Cho SEOUL, May 22 (Reuters) - South Korea's imports of Iranian crude in April fell nearly 45 percent from a year ...
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Iran Hezbollah role in Syria complicates peace strategy
As evidence grows of increased Iranian support for the Syrian government, the Obama administration's strategy to bring the bitter fighting there to a close faces more challenges than ever. With White House support, Secretary of State John Kerry has pushed for an international conference in Geneva in June that would bring representatives of the Syria government together with the ...
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Ten more arrested in Iranian espionage case
An official spokesman from the Saudi government has confirmed the arrest of 10 people involved in an Iranian espionage cell who were allegedly associated with the same spy network that was dismantled in March of this year by Saudi security officials. A security spokesman confirmed that the latest cell had eight Saudis, one Lebanese and one Turkish national. "Initial investigations carried ...
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Iranian presidential candidates announced Rafsanjani disqualified
TEHRAN - The final list of candidates approved to run in Iran’s June 14 presidential election was announced Tuesday, generating surprise and tension with the omission of a former president considered one of the founding members of the Islamic ...
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Iranian man extradited to U.S. tried to buy plane parts reports
The Iranian man extradited by Cyprus to the United States on suspicion of violating U.N. sanctions on Iran had tried to purchase F4 and F5 plane parts in the United States and send them illegally to Iran, according to reports in two Cypriot newspapers on Saturday. The extradition of the man has caused diplomatic tension, with Iran recalling its ambassador in Nicosia for consultations and the ...
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Iran Unveils New Weapons and Combat Equipment
Tehran, 22 May (PL) The Iranian Defense Ministry announced the presentation today of what he described as "five new successes in defense" at the ceremony on the anniversary of the liberation of the province of Khorramshahr from Iraqi occupation. The new products include personal weapons and personal combat equipment and will be exhibited to the public at a ceremony to be attended by ...
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Iran Unveils List of Eight Presidential Candidates - Report
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - The Iranian Interior Ministry published on Tuesday a list of eight candidates permitted to run in June 14 presidential election, FARS news agency reported. The candidates were selected by the Guardian Council, the group that supervises the election. The list of presidential hopefuls is dominated by conservatives, who are Tehran’s mayor, Mohammad Bagher ...
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Saudis arrest more suspects in Iranian espionage case
AFPRIYADH--Saudi authorities have arrested 10 more suspects in an alleged Iranian spy ring unveiled two months ago, an interior ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. The eight Saudis, a Lebanese and a Turk bring the number of people arrested to 28, the official SPA news agency quoted the spokesman as ...
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Irans Hashemi-Rafsanjani Rahim-Mashaei barred from competing for presidency
In a statement issued by Iranian Interior Ministry on Tuesday, the presidential hopefuls Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, former moderate president, and Esfandiar Rahim- Mashaei, top aide of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were not qualified for the country's upcoming presidential ...
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Iran will have men in space within ten years
Iran will have astronauts in space within the next ten years, according to government officials who recently revealed to Iran news media the Iranian Space Agency’s long-term space objectives.
Iran has pursued an ambitious space program in recent years, entering the so-called ‘Asian Space Race’ and launching the country’s first rocket in 2004, followed in 2009 by the launch of an entirely domestically-built satellite, thereby becoming the 9th country in the world to have achieved orbital-launch capability. Read more
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