Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Thursday, September 13, 2018, and picked headlines from 15 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. A top story in all papers today was remarks made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a Wednesday cabinet session, ...

IRNA - Director General of Tehran Province Justice Department announced that Former Chief of Iranian Presidential office Esfandiyar Rahim Mashaei was sentenced to 5 years in jail. Gholam-Hossein Esmaili told reporters on Wednesday that endangering national security was the reason behind his imprisonment. He was also sentenced to 6 months imprisonment ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Monday, September 3, 2018, and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in all papers today was the remarks made by the Leader of Irans Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday, March 18, and picked headlines from 17 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in almost all newspapers today was the European Unions decision to join the US in imposing fresh sanctions on Iran in ...

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Following his candidacy in the May presidential elections, First Vice PresidentEshaq Jahangirihas appeared as a capable and likely candidate for the Reformists in Irans next contest in 2021. However, the recentdetention of his brotherover allegations of corruption may have thrown some obstacles in his path. Reports about ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thanked government workers in a massive rally that was seen as a show of his power ahead of the June presidential election. The official IRNA news agency reported that an estimated 70,000 people attended the rare gathering on Thursday, which was held in a football stadium. Opponents of Ahmadinejad ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A protege of Iran's outgoing president said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his allies will make a comeback as a future force in Iranian politics, newspapers reported on Tuesday. The papers, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, quoted Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei as saying Ahmadinejad and his loyalists will "return" to power someday. Ahmadinejad ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEICriticalThreats Project Iran AnalystWill Fulton and Iran Intern Amir Toumaj.   Politics Interim Tehran Friday Prayer Leader and former Representative of the Supreme Leader to the IRGCAyatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermanipraised President-...

Ban on candidateshighlights the frailty of the Islamic regime By throwing his hat into the ring for Irans presidential race, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president, disrupted the supreme leaders efforts to engineer the outcome.Ayatollah Ali Khameneihas struck back. The countrys constitutional watchdog, whose criteria for approving candidates ...

(Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he would ask Iran's supreme leader to reverse a ban preventing his aide from running in next month's presidential poll, a test of stability after the violent trauma of the 2009 vote. The Guardian Council, charged with vetting all candidates, disqualified Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Ahmadinejad's ...

[caption id="attachment_29488" align="alignright" width="300"] Esfandiyar Rahim-Mashaei (R), accompanied by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attends a press conference after registering for the presidential election in Tehran on May 11, 2013.[/caption] The election campaign office of Esfandiyar Rahim-Mashaei, who was not approved by Irans Guardian ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state TV says overseers of next month's presidential election have rejected a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a former president who revived hopes of reformers. The announcement Tuesday listed eight candidates for the June 14 ballot. All are closely linked to Iran's ruling system. Not on the ...

23 days to the presidential vote, election stories are as follows:Mehr claims on Mashaei & Rafsanjani disqualification;presidential hopeful Rafsanjanis third election statement;Mashaeis reaction to the possibility of his disqualification; Velayati's remarksover principlists' unity for one candidateand recent wave of Ahmadinejad supporters' arrest  ...

People close to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been getting arrested in the last several days on baseless charges and claims, Iranian government supporting news website INN.IR reported. The website further said that cleric Bahman Sharifzadeh, who has been supportive of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government, has been called to Iran's special Clergy ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEICriticalThreats Project Iran AnalystWill Fulton.   Politics 100 MPs havesigneda letter to the Guardian Council urging it to disqualify former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani for his confrontation with thevelayat-e faqihand opposition ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEICriticalThreats Project Iran AnalystWill Fulton.   Politics Head of the Imam Khomeini Research and Education Institute Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdisaid, Lack of presence in the elections is a betrayal to Islam. MP Mohammad ...

[caption id="attachment_28085" align="alignright" width="300"] Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani casts his ballot in a parliamentary election in Tehran March 2, 2012.[/caption] On May 11, in the last moments before the registration deadline for candidacy, AyatollahHashemi Rafsanjaniregistered to run in the elections. The news immediately ...

The Guardian Council, the body vetting the almost 700 people who had registered as candidates for the Presidential election, is scheduled to make its decisions today. However, with up to 40 prominent politicians and public figures among the hopefuls, it is close to a certainty that the Council will request a five-day extension. Yet even at this ...

TEHRAN Conservatives aligned with Irans supreme leader may enjoy his support, but their inability to rally behind a single candidate could hurt their chances of replacing outgoing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president. With less than a month remaining before the June 14 election, no clear front-runner has emerged among a bloc of nearly a dozen conservative ...

[caption id="attachment_23804" align="alignright" width="300"] Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili (R) and his deputy Ali Baqeri take part in talks with the P5+1 group on Iran's nuclear program in the Kazakh city of Almaty on April 5, 2013.[/caption] Iran news headlines on Wednesdayinclude resumption ofIran nuclear talks in Vienna and Istanbul;...