Ahmadinejad aide banned from presidential race
Source: CNN
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 06:35:24 -0700 | political-news
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will challenge the disqualification of his top aide from next month's presidential election, Iran's state-run Press TV reported Wednesday. Only eight candidates have been approved to run for office from more than 680 candidates who had...
Ahmadinejad slams decision to bar ally from Iran vote
Source: World News
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 02:35:30 -0700 | political-news
Tehran , May 22: Iran 's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hit out today 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....
Ahmadinejad to contest bar on ally
Source: BBC
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 02:05:36 -0700 | political-news
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will contest the disqualification of his ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from next month's presidential poll. Mr Mashaei and ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani have been excluded by the Guardian Council, which vets election candidates.
Iran bars Rafsanjani from standing for president
Source: DAWN
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 08:08:06 -0700 | political-news
Iran's moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been barred from standing in next month's presidential election, along with a controversial aide of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. Rafsanjani, who served as president from 1989 to 1997,...
Ahmadinejad To Reverse the Decision of Supreme Leader(Ayotullah)
Posted by: usmansafi
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 08:08:06 -0700 | political-news
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...
Rafsanjani disqualified for Iran Presidential Election
Posted by: usmansafi
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 08:08:07 -0700 | political-news
The exclusion of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and another thorn in the conservatives’ side, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, from running in the Iranian elections could foreshadow even greater repercussions. Since its founding in 1979, the Islamic republic has been characterised...
Presidential Elections In Iran : Two Candidates Barred by Guardian Council
Posted by: usmansafi
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-21 22:27:48 -0700 | political-news
The Guardian Council, which vets all candidates, approved eight names, but left out an influential former president and a top aide to the current president. Their exclusion gives establishment-friendly candidates a clear path to the presidency in the June 14...
Diplomats: Iran expands nuke technology
Source: SF Gate
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 03:24:26 -0700 | political-news
Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Wednesday, despite high-level diplomacy aimed at stopping it from doing so. Three diplomats said Tehran now has installed close to...
5 Energy Companies Pouring Money Into Lobbying
Source: The Motley Fool
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 05:51:43 -0700 | business-news
Senate Office of Public Records. Depending on your level of cynicism, these numbers may surprise you...According to opensecrets.org , the oil and gas industry spent a cumulative $139.9 million lobbying in 2012 and more than $36 million so far in 2013....
Iranian drone spotted in Bahrain`s airspace
Source: Zee News
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 07:06:16 -0700 | political-news
Bahrain's Interior Minister on Wednesday said an Iranian drone was spotted in Bahrain's airspace in the northern part of the country near Saudi Arabia. Lt Gen Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa said Iran was increasingly meddling in the internal...
CIA and Mossad Killed in Iran
Source: Salem News
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 02:08:42 -0700 | political-news
The Iranian government caught two "spies" who worked for the CIA and Mossad recently. The two men were hanged Sunday morning, the information of the capture and hanging came from the Iranian state news Press TV. The men were identified...
Live! Sanjay Dutt shifted to Yerwada jail in Pune
Source: Rediff
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-21 20:57:53 -0700 | political-news
HC to decide fate of hostile witnesses : More than two years after reserving its verdict, the Delhi High Court will on Wednesday decide whether to prosecute 19 witnesses, including Bollywood actor Shyan Munshi on the charge of perjury...
Ten Years After US Invades Iraq, Israel Eager to Take the US Into Round Two
Source: Salem News
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-20 18:08:46 -0700 | allnews
Ten years after the US invaded Iraq in 2003, another Middle East war looms large between the West and Muslim states. Signs point to the strong possibility that Israel, and its US Zionist supporters, remain determined, first, to draw the...
Ten Years After US Invades Iraq, Israel Eager to Take the US Into Round Two
Source: Salem News
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-20 18:08:46 -0700 | allnews
Ten years after the US invaded Iraq in 2003, another Middle East war looms large between the West and Muslim states. Signs point to the strong possibility that Israel, and its US Zionist supporters, remain determined, first, to draw the...
VIDEO: Will Israel bomb Iran?
Source: BBC
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-20 16:42:44 -0700 | disasters-news
28 ET Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen explores what might happen if Iran continues with its nuclear programme...Our correspondent visits Israel and finds a widespread fear and distrust of Iran. Could it be that Israel and the US will launch...
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