i24 News – Journalists with Israel s public broadcaster Kan News were attacked by Jewish extremists in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
Registration will end on Saturday, after which entrants will be screened for their political and Islamic qualifications by a 12-member vetting body, the Guardian Council. Six members of the hardline body are appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei backed Ahmadinejad after his 2009 re-election triggered protests in which dozens of people were killed and hundreds arrested, rattling the ruling theocracy, before security forces led by the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) stamped out the unrest.
But a rift developed between the two after then-president Ahmadinejad explicitly advocated checks on Khamenei’s ultimate authority. Ahmadinejad was disqualified by the Guardian Council in the 2017 presidential election.
Iran s former hardline president Ahmadinejad to run again Reuters 1 hr ago
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, May 12 (Reuters) - Iran s hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday registered to run again in an election in June which is being seen as a test of the legitimacy of the country s clerical rulers.
Vilified in the West for his questioning of the Holocaust, Ahmadinejad had to step down in 2013 because of term limit rules, when incumbent President Hassan Rouhani, who negotiated Iran s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, won in a landslide. People should be involved in Iran s decision-making process. We must all prepare ourselves for fundamental reform, state TV quoted Ahmadinejad as saying after submitting his registration.
Mistrust of US underpins revival of Iran N-deal
Michael Jansen The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
09 May 2021 Abbas Araghchi (centre), political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, leaves the ‘Grand Hotel Wien’ after the closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna on Friday. Agence France-Presse Ahead of last Friday’s launch of the fourth round of talks on reviving the nuclear deal with Iran, an unidentified senior US state department official predicted that the return by the US and Iran to the accord is “doable” before Iran’s presidential election in June. He said the US is prepared to re-enter the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and lift sanctions so that Iran is able to enjoy t
Please treat our loved-ones like hostages
Family of British citizens detained in Iran say the government has not adapted to the regime s negotiating tactics
8 May 2021 • 6:00am
A family photograph of Anoosheh Ashoori (L) and wife Sherry Izadi (R)
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When Iranian media reported last week that Britain was about to settle a £400 million debt in exchange for release of prisoners held in Iran, the mood in Anoosheh Ashoori s cell in Tehran s Evin prison rose. There was a sense of massive excitement in the prison ward. It was like a spark of hope among the prisoners, said Sherry Izadi, his wife. I had to tell him on the phone that both sides had denied it, but that didn t seem to deter him.
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TEHRAN, IRAN On April 25, the Saudi-funded and U.K.-backed “Iran International” released a leaked audio recording of Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, in conversation with Iranian economist Saeed Laylaz for what appeared to be an oral history project. Immediately, the three-hour-plus conversation generated a great deal of controversy in Iran and plenty of commentary abroad. In the course of the conversation, Zarif spoke about his diplomatic posts, before and during the Rouhani administration, and his future political ambitions (or lack thereof). He ruminated on his relationship with President Hassan Rouhani, the late General Qasim Soleimani, and the leader of the Islamic Republic, Sayyid Ali Khamenei. He also highlighted his political philosophy on Iranian sovereignty and on international relations, as he discussed relations with the U.S., Russia, and Saudi Arabia, among other nations.