BEIRUT, Feb 8 - It was an extraordinary moment in the history of the Islamic Republic. Live on state radio, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani exchanged insult after insult in the assembly chamber last Sunday as shocked lawmakers shouted their disapproval. The stormy session peaked when Ahmadinejad aired a video ...

TEHRAN Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a rare acknowledgment Saturday night of the economic challenges his country is facing. This was a very difficult year for our economy, Ahmadinejad said during a live television interview in which he outlined his governments budget plan for the coming fiscal year. He accused the United States of using ...

Fazel Larijani has called on the Tehran Prosecutor to lay charges against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Saeed Mortazavi, the head of the Social Security Fund, for defamation and slander. The Fars News Agency published Larijanis letter of Monday February 11, which accuses the presidents close aides of security and financial crimes and demands that ...

(Reuters) - A once-feared prosecutor at the center of a row between two of Iran's most powerful figures was freed from two days' detention on Wednesday, adding a new twist to a political dramaIranwatchers expect to intensify before presidential polls in June. Neither the arrest nor the release of the former judicial official, Saeed Mortazavi, have ...

A brother of Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani said he will file a legal complaint againstMahmoud Ahmadinejadover his lies after the president accused his family of corruption, state-runFarsreported. The remarks by Fazel Larijani, a former diplomat inCanada, follow a public showdown yesterday in parliament between his brother and Ahmadinejad,...