Former Iran VP sentenced for threatening national security: Fars News
Reuters – A vice president and senior aide under Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sentenced to six and a half years…
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Judiciary issues indictment for ex-president’s bureau chief
IRNA – Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi on Sunday issued two separate indictments for ex-president chief bureau Esfandiyar Rahim Mashaei and…
Ex-Head of Iran presidential office arrested
IRNA – Former Chief of Iranian Presidential office Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei was arrested on Saturday. Mashaei was busted by security forces for…
Iran jails Ahmadinejad’s vice president for corruption
RFERL – Iran on March 13 jailed Hamid Baghai, a vice president under former hard-liner Mahmud Ahmadinejad, following his conviction for corruption,…
Audit orders Ahmadinejad to return $1.1bn to treasury
Press TV – A top Iranian state audit agency says it has found the country’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responsible for causing as…
Former Iranian president Ahmadinejad facing sentencing over misuse of funds
Reuters – Iran’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, faces sentences on seven verdicts of misusing billions of dollars in government funds while in…
Ahmadinejad faces pressure after failed presidential bid
Al-Monitor | Fereshteh Sadeghi: On May 29, Iranian law enforcement officers along with staff from the presidency confiscated a building in east…
A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on May 31
Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 21…
Iran’s Ahmadinejad says won’t endorse other candidates
AFP- Iran’s former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today said that he won’t endorse other candidates in next month’s election, after he and…
No final verdict issued on Ahmadinejad, Baqaei cases: Iran Judiciary
Press TV – The Iranian Judiciary spokesman says lawsuits filed against the country’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his vice president, Hamid…
A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 19
Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 13…
No final verdict issued on Ahmadinejad, Baqaei cases: Iran Judiciary
Press TV- The Iranian Judiciary spokesman says lawsuits filed against the country’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his vice president, Hamid Baqaei,…
Iran in photos: Apr. 10-16
April 16, The Iran Project – Registration of presidential hopefuls starting in Iran, Iran-Russia-Syria holding tripartite talks in Moscow, Rouhani, Raisi registering…
Overview of Iranian presidential hopefuls for 2017 race
April 15, The Iran Project – The following is an overview of the most high-profile figures who have registered for Iran’s 12th presidential election in the…
A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on April 13
Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 13…
Iran’s coverage: In surprise move, Iran’s Ahmadinejad to run for president
Daily look at Iran’s late-breaking news and upcoming events: Former president Ahmadinejad registers for presidential election Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered…
Former president Ahmadinejad registers for presidential election
IRNA – Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered for the upcoming presidential elections to be held on May 19. Head of the Islamic…
Ahmadinejad says won’t run for president, backs ex-vice president Baqaei
Press TV – Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has endorsed presumptive Principlist candidate Hamid Baqaei, who served as his vice president, for the next…
Ahmadinejad and Trump on Twitter are a match made in heaven
The Guardian|Saeed Kamali Dehghan: Iran’s former president wrote a letter to Trump recently. Having had no reply, he’s begun tweeting. What could…
Ahmadinejad calls on US to stop meddling in foreign states’ affairs
Sputnik News– Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged US President Donald Trump on Sunday to stop interfere in the internal affairs of…
Is Trump hoping for another Ahmadinejad in Tehran?
Al-Monitor- As Iranian emergency workers were racing to remove the rubble of the collapsed Plasco high-rise in Tehran, Donald Trump was sworn…
Is Rouhani repeating Ahmadinejad’s tricks in currency market?
Al-Monitor- Ever since the rial hit an all-time low against the greenback on Dec. 27, top monetary policymaker Valiollah Seif has been…
Ex-president expresses condolences on Ayat. Rafsanjani’s demise
IRNA – Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message on Monday expressed condolences on demise of the late Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,…
Iran’s MPs vote to end ‘Mehr’ housing project
Press TV- Iran’s media on Tuesday cheered as the Parliament voted to end a hefty housing project that President Hassan Rouhani had…
Conservatives to benefit from Ahmadinejad’s absence from Iran presidential votes
IFP- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently met with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. During the meeting, the former president…
Bush ‘sought negotiations with Iran’
MNA– Iranian ambassador to former Soviet Union has said during Ahmadinejad’s administration, US President Bush sent Tony Blair to mediate talks between…
Ahmadinejad writes to new UN chief
TEHRAN – Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday wrote a letter to the new UN Secretary General António Guterres. In the…
Why Iran’s banking shake-up won’t be enough
TEHRAN, Iran — On July 24, Valiollah Seif, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), unveiled the Central Bank and Usury-Free Banking…
Who will be Iran’s next president?
September 29, The Iran Project – A few days ago, the Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ended…
Ahmadinejad gives up plan to nominate for next year presidential election
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Tuesday that he has decided not to take part in the next year…
Leader urges Iranian political figures to avert polarity in society
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called on Iranian political figures to avoid taking actions that…
Ahmadinejad won’t run for presidential elections next year
According to a report by Alef, as translated by IFP, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, the former minister of culture in Ahmadinejad’s cabinet, believes…
US official says Ahmadinejad’s letter was referred to Justice Department
Tehran, Aug 10, IRNA – US State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau has said that the letter sent by the former Iranian President…
Former Iran president writes to Obama over $2B court ruling
Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to President Barack Obama, asking him to “quickly fix” a U.S. Supreme Court…
A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on July 24
Newspapers on Sunday covered the recent terrorist attacks in German city of Munich and Afghan capital of Kabul. They also covered the…
Secret document shows NSA spied on Iran U.N. delegation in New York
The NSA will probably spy on foreign leaders like Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during the UN General Assembly in New York this…
AEOI EX-Head: Ahmadinejad can be Iran’s ambassador of peace in S. America
Tehran, August 12, The Iran Project – Former Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoun Abbasi says Iran’s ex-president…
Former president Ahmadinejad reacts to Iran nuclear deal
Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in an Instagram post on the conclusion of a nuclear deal with P5+1, has cited a hadith from…
I don’t seek to run for office: Ahmadinejad
Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that he does not have any plan for or any interest in running for elected office,…
Ahmadinejad has no plan for parliamentary elections
Tehran, June 27, The Iran Project – Ex-president doesn’t have any plan for Iran’s upcoming parliamentary elections, a senior presidential advisor in…