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"US had troops in region since 9/11...": Biden denies Iran supreme leader'
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Responding to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accusing the US of "directing" the ongoing Israeli strikes in Gaza, followimg the October 7 Hamas terror attacks, President Joe Biden said the US has had troops in the region since 9/11 to go after ISIS, and it had nothing to do
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"Proud operation": Advisor to Iran Supreme Leader supports Hamas rocket at
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has expressed support for the 'surprise attack' launched by Hamas against Israel calling it a "proud operation", The Times of Israel reported.
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Schoolgirl poisonings: Iran arrests more than 100 people
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Iran has seen a wave of suspected poisonings, carried out almost entirely at girls' schools, in recent months. The first known incident of schoolgirl poisoning occurred on November 30 in the city of Qom, when about 50 students fell ill and were taken to the hospital.
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Iran sentences three more protesters to death, amid global outrage
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Amid the global unrest over the civil unrest triggered by Mahsa Amini's death, the Iranian judiciary on Monday handed down three more death sentences, reported France24.
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Iran summons French ambassador over insulting' cartoons depicting supreme
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"The insulting and indecent act of a French publication in publishing cartoons against the religious and political authority will not go without an effective and decisive response," tweeted Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
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Iran's supreme leader Khamenei's health issues raise succession bogey
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], September 25 (ANI): Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made his first public appearance last week since falling ill earlier this month, however, it has now triggered fresh rumours about Khamenei's ill health prompting a round of questions about who might eventually s
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Putin did not discuss deliveries of drones in Iran: Kremlin
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 20 (ANI): Russian President Vladimir Putin did not discuss the deliveries of drones either with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi or with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said on Tuesday.
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Iran's top leader calls regional states' normalization of ties with Israel
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], October 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday that the attempt of some regional states to normalize relations with Israel is "a great sin and mistake," according to the official news agency IRNA.
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Is the newly inaugurated Iranian President Raisi going to follow more hard
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], August 9 (ANI): With pomp and ceremony,ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi was sworn in last Thursday in Tehran as Iran's eighth President, in the presence of more than 100 representatives of various countries and organizations. Raisi, a protege of Iran's Supreme Lea
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Biden administration considering lifting sanctions on Iran's supreme leade
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 27 (ANI): The Biden administration is considering lifting sanctions on Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as part of negotiations aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
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Election of Ebrahim Raisi as President means that ultra-conservatives have
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], June 21 (ANI): Hard-line Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi won Friday's elections in Iran, getting 17.8 million votes, while his main opponents - former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei got only 3.3 million, and moderate former Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati
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Iran approves 7 candidates to run in presidential elections on June 18
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], May 25 (ANI): Iran's Guardian Council, a 12-member constitutional vetting body overseen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has announced seven candidates to run for the country's upcoming presidential elections on June 18.
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