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Iran’s Khatami says trial confessions ‘invalid’

Mohammad Khatami said on Wednesday trial confessions by moderates accused of fomenting post-election unrest were invalid.

Iran puts top reformists, Khatami aides on trial

Several aides to former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami and top reformists were put on trial on Tuesday.

Iran’s conservatives head for crushing poll win

Iranian conservatives were on Saturday heading for a crushing victory in parliamentary elections over reformists who were sidelined by mass pre-vote disqualifications, partial…

Iran president casts doubt on ‘suspect’ 9/11

Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday reaffirmed his doubts about the accepted version of the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, describing the strikes as…

Reformists fight off irrelevance in Iran

For one spring evening in a blue-tiled mosque just south of Tehran, it sounds and feels as though the hour of the Iranian reformists has come again. The mosque is packed with men…

Ahmadinejad offers to be observer at US election

He denounces it as the ”Great Satan”, but the overtures of the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the United States seem to grow ever more extravagant. Having failed to…

Ahmadinejad steps up rhetoric against critics at home

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s President, raised domestic tensions over the country’s nuclear policy to higher levels on Monday by labelling his opponents ”traitors” who are working…

Khatami hints at comeback with censure of president

Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami has fuelled speculation of a possible comeback by bluntly accusing his successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of peddling false statistics to…