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Pope Francis on historic trip to Iraq, to meet Shia Muslim leader Sistani
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], March 6 (ANI): Pope Francis, arrived in Iraq on Friday (local time) for a historic four-day tour of the war-torn country and will meet with its top cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a popular Shia Muslim figure, on Saturday.
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Iran not after nuclear weapons, but won't limit nuclear enrichment to 20 p
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Tehran [Iran], February 23 (ANI): Iran is not after nuclear weapons, but its nuclear enrichment will not be limited to 20 per cent, said Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei on Monday.
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Senior Iranian cleric demands Imran Khan to end targeted killing of Pakist
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], January 11 (ANI): Condemning the recent attack in Pakistan that killed 11 people from the minority Shiite Hazara community in Balochistan, senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi has demanded Imran Khan-led government to put an end to the targeted killing of the
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UAE's normalisation of ties with Israel an act of 'betrayal': Khamenei
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], September 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the recent move by the officials of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to normalise ties with Israel is an act of "betrayal," the leader's official website reported.
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Iran threatens to launch attack against UAE over deal with Israel
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Aug 16 (ANI): Iran on Saturday (local time) threatened to launch an attack against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over its agreement to normalise relations with Israel, Arab News reported.
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Iran's supreme leader Khamenei creates official Hindi Twitter account
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Aug 09 (ANI): Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei has opened an official Twitter account in Hindi.
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COVID-19 : Khamenei refuses American assistance
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran[Iran], Mar 23 (ANI): Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refused American assistance to fight the coronavirus citing a conspiracy theory, claiming it could be man-made by the United States government.
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Make Iran great again: Trump tells Iranian leaders
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Jan 18 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) urged Iranian leaders to "make Iran great again", a reference to the slogan associated with his campaign.
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He should be very careful with his words: US President warns 'so-called Su
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Jan 18 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) warned Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be "very careful" with his words.
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Iran's Supreme Leader hits out at 'errand boys of US' - Germany, UK & Fran
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 18 (ANI): In a rare public sermon on Friday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei hit out at Germany, France and the UK for being "errand boys of the US" who were trustworthy and also mocked US officials as "clowns".
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Iran agrees to de-escalation as 'only solution' to rising tension in Middl
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 13 (ANI): Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei and other senior leaders on Sunday and agreed that de-escalation and dialogue were the only solutions to rising tensions in the Middl
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Protesters in Tehran demand Ayatollah Khamenei to quit over downing of pla
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 12 (ANI): A group of Iranian demonstrators on Saturday demanded the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down as protests hit central Tehran after its military mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane, killing all 176 people on board last week.
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