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Ahmadinejad issues challenge to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became Iran’s president seven years ago, he made his presence felt through incendiary statements targeted at Israel and the west. Now, in his dying days in office, he is going out all guns firing. Only this time he is taking aim at the edifice of the political system…
Watch live: Iran’s Ahmadinejad addresses the UN
Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the United Nations in New York City. Watch live, broadcast on Sept. 26. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad tells CNN’s Piers Morgan that backing homosexuality is for ‘capitalists’
Supporting homosexuality is the stuff of hardline capitalists who do not care about real human values, Iran’s president said. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview on CNN that homosexuality is a “very ugly behavior” that he said was banned by “all prophets and all religions and all faiths.” In…
Ahmadinejad admits Iran has ‘problems’ selling oil
Iran has “problems” exporting its oil, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted on Tuesday, but he said his government was determined to overcome that and other challenges posed by Western economic sanctions. “There are some problems in selling oil and we are trying to manage it,” he said in an interview broadcast live on state television.…
Ahmadinejad: I’m gone after 2013
A German magazine is reporting that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ready to leave politics for good. According to The Times of Israel, Ahmadinejad told Allgemeine Zeitung Saturday that once his current term expires next year, the former mayor of Tehran and civil engineer plans to return to academia. “Eight…
Enrichment ‘not a step towards a bomb’: Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN — Iran’s enrichment of uranium to 20 percent “is our right” and “is not a step towards a bomb,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday in an interview with the satellite television network France 24. The enrichment activity, which world powers are trying to curb in fraught talks with Iran,…
Ahmadinejad tirade on Afghanistan prompts U.S. walkout
A US delegation walked out of a conference in Tajikistan Monday during a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lambasting US policy on Afghanistan as the source of all the nation’s troubles. Ahmadinejad launched his new tirade against Washington at the meeting in the Tajik capital Dushanbe attended by leaders of Afghanistan’s neighbours as well…
Jobless men disrupt Iran president speech: reports
TEHRAN — Laid-off workers complaining about unpaid wages disrupted a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday by shouting and throwing objects, news websites and an agency reported. One of the men threw a “pair of shoes” at Ahmadinejad, according to a report by a little-known website, Ghasednews.ir, that…
Iran deploys security forces on anniversary of disputed election
TEHRAN — Thousands of security forces were deployed in Tehran on Sunday to prevent any opposition protest on the second anniversary of the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, witnesses said. The security forces were deployed on Vali Asr street, which bisects the city from north to south, and in…
Bin Laden was a US prisoner before being killed: Iran
TEHRAN — Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was a prisoner in US custody for “sometime” before he was killed by the American military, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday. “I have exact information that bin Laden was held by the American military for sometime… until the day they killed…
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