Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad resoundingly won Iran’s election, preliminary official results showed on Saturday.
Iranians began voting on Friday in a closely-fought election which pits hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against a former prime minister.
Iranian voters will choose on Friday between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a fierce critic of US ”arrogance”, and his more moderate rivals.
If Iranian voters deny President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-election on Friday, it may be more a verdict on his economic performance.
Supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are confident he could reach his goal of winning another four-year term.
Iranian restaurateur Mohsen Misaqi notes that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fulfilled the promise to put oil wealth on the table of every family.
Mirhossein Mousavi, seen as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s main challenger in a June 12 election, advocates better ties with Iran’s Western foes.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected on Monday a proposal put forward by the West in a bid to resolve a row over Iran’s nuclear aims.
Iran launched a missile with a range of 2 000km on Wednesday and the president said the Islamic state could send any attacker ”to hell”.
The United States told the Syrian government on Thursday it was committed to seeking a peace deal between Syria and Israel.
Advisers warn Iran’s president that letters sent by the public he is so keen to correspond with may contain poisons.
Diplomats at the UN sought on Tuesday to advance an anti-racism declaration and brush off comments from Iran’s president that prompted a walkout.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted a walkout from his speech to a UN racism summit on Monday when he accused Israel of racism against the Palestinians.
Iran said on Monday a journalist jailed for espionage had the right to appeal against her sentence, but the US should respect rulings by its courts.
Iran on Thursday said it would review an offer of talks on its nuclear programme from the United States and five other world powers.
United States President Barack Obama on Friday launched a historic direct appeal to the Iranian people, urging an end to decades of animosity.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Parliament of violating the Constitution after it rejected a key plank of his subsidy reform plan.
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/ 11 February 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells huge crowd that change by Washington would have to be ”fundamental and not tactical”.
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/ 28 January 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded on Wednesday that President Barack Obama apologise for "crimes" committed by the US against Iran.
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/ 24 October 2008
He is renowned for his long hours and hectic schedule, but the stress of high office may be taking its toll on the health of Iran’s president.
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/ 15 October 2008
George W Bush’s presidency is losing international influence, but it would be foolish to write obituaries for American power.
The Bush administration has given a US thinktank the go-ahead to open an office in Iran, in a departure from its policy of isolating the regime.
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/ 23 September 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a US newspaper the Wall Street crisis stemmed partly from American military interventions.
Iran’s president called on Tuesday for developing nations to unite against what he said was bias by the UN Security Council.
Iran is running more than 5 000 centrifuges for enriching uranium, its president was quoted as saying on Saturday.
A frequent complaint of the Iranians is that they want to deal directly with the US instead of its surrogates, Britain, France and Germany.
The US plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years as part of a turnaround in policy by President George Bush.
Iran has test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles, including one which it has previously said could reach Israel and US bases in the region.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the US and its allies of plotting to assassinate him during a visit to Iraq, radio reported on Friday.
A nuclear deal proposed by the major powers appeared on Sunday to have widened rifts among Iran’s ruling conservatives.
The United Nations urged a summit on the global food crisis on Tuesday to help stop the spread of starvation threatening nearly one billion people by lowering trade barriers and removing export bans. ”Nothing is more degrading than hunger, especially when man-made,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told world leaders.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe made a surprise appearance on Monday at a world food summit in Rome, drawing fierce criticism from the British government. In his first official trip abroad since elections in March, Mugabe attended the summit organised by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.