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State Department official denounces ‘repression’ in lead-up to Iranian presidential election
US officials Wednesday slammed a campaign of “unrelenting repression” ahead of Iran’s presidential elections, and said the outcome would be very hard to predict amid a secret vetting process. The future direction of the next Iranian leadership in ongoing talks with world powers about the Islamic republic’s suspect nuclear program…
Ahmadinejad: US must change before direct talks
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said the United States must change its attitude if it wants to hold direct nuclear talks with Iran, as he hit out at Washington for imposing sanctions on Tehran. His comments, in a speech marking the 34th anniversary of the Islamic revolution that ousted the…
Ahmadinejad ready to be ‘first man in space’ with Iran’s space program
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he is ready “to be the first man in space” under Iran’s ambitious programme which aims to send a human being into orbit by 2020. “Our youth are determined to send a man into space within the next four, five years and I’m sure…
Iran unveils futuristic-looking warplane
Iran on Saturday unveiled a fighter jet it said was designed and built domestically, with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad touting it as “one of the most advanced” aircraft in the world. State television footage showed the grey, futuristic-looking aircraft, code-named Qaher (Conqueror) F-313, displayed in a hangar. The warplane “is among…
White House: Iran under pressure from sanctions
The White House said Thursday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s latest warnings on the state of Iran’s economy, proved the “profound impact” of nuclear sanctions. Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Tehran needed to tailor the economy to subvert Western sanctions, saying the current approach would be a “losing strategy.” White House…
Ahmadinejad: Iran fighting ‘smart economic war’
Iran is engaged in a “smart economic war” with Western powers whose sanctions against its nuclear programme are hurting some Iranians, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday. “Targeted sanctions, which the enemies say are supposed to be crippling, have led to a drop in our oil” sales, Ahmadinejad said in…
Ahmadinejad: Iran won’t ‘retreat’ on nuclear issue despite economic sanctions
Iran will not back down on its nuclear programme despite economic problems caused by Western sanctions, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday. “We are not people to retreat on the nuclear issue,” he told a news conference in Tehran. “If somebody thinks they can pressure Iran, they are certainly wrong…
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…
Woman clobbers Iranian cleric who told her to cover up
An Iranian cleric claims to have been beaten up by a woman after he told her she was not adequately covered, according to media reports. Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti came across the woman on his way to a mosque in Iran’s northern Semnan province and told her to cover up. “You,…
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.…
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