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  • Iranians joining Hezbollah in Qusayr Syria battle US

    Iranians are working alongside Hezbollah fighters to back Syrian troops battling to retake the rebel stronghold of Qusayr amid fears of a civilian massacre, a US official said Tuesday. ';It is the most visible effort we have seen by Hezbollah to engage directly in the fighting in Syria as a foreign ...

  • Iran Bars Election Candidacies of Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad Aide

    Iran says a conservative body has barred two prominent figures from competing in next month's presidential election - moderate former president Hashemi Rafsanjani and a leading conservative allied to current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian interior ministry said Tuesday the Guardian Council of clerics and jurists excluded the two politicians from a final list of eight ...

  • Irans moderate ex-president Rafsanjani barred from standing for elections

    TEHRAN // Iran's electoral watchdog has barred moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from standing in a June 14 presidential election, the interior ministry said yesterday. Eight candidates won approval to stand - five conservatives close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as two moderate conservatives and a reformist. Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a close but ...

  • Iran decreases medicine imports by 54

    (MENAFN) Iran's total medicine imports were USD34.2 million during the first month of its calendar year, down 54.7 percent on yearly basis, reported Tehran Times citing ISNA.In terms of weight, medicine imports fell by 18.6 percent, to 549.7 tons in the period.On the other hand, the total medicine exports were USD1.2 million, weighing 101.6 tons.Meanwhile, the country itself is producing 97 ...

  • Iran election Rafsanjani blocked from running for president

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaves office.Iranian state-run television station broadcast a statement by the interior ministry on Tuesday night announcing the final list of candidates. It did not include Rafsanjani or President Ahmadinejad's close ally, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei.Eight men were allowed to enter the race for the 14 June presidential election, including Iran's chief nuclear ...

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  • Iran Bars Rafsanjani From Eight-Candidate Presidential Field

    Iran 's election watchdog barred former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a close aide to incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from next month's presidential vote, limiting the field to mostly loyalist candidates. Rafsanjani, one of the Islamic republic's founders and its president from 1989 to 1997, failed to receive approval from the Guardian Council, which screens ...

  • Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad ally disqualified from Iran election report

    DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's electoral watchdog has barred former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahadinejad from running in the June 14 presidential election, state media reported on ...

  • Saudi Interior Ministry says 10 more members of alleged Iranian spy ring arrested

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A Saudi official says police have detained 10 more members of an alleged Iranian spy ring -- eight Saudis, one Lebanese and one Turkish national. Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said in a statement Tuesday that investigations in the March arrest of 18 alleged spies had led to the new arrests. The ministry said on March 19 that security authorities ...

  • Saudi Arabia arrests more ‘Iran spy ring’ suspects

    Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 more suspects in what it says is a spy ring linked to Iran, state media report. Those detained include eight Saudis, a Turk, and a Lebanese citizen. Eighteen people were arrested in the same case in ...

  • India leads Asian cuts in imports of Iranian oil ahead of waiver review

    India has cut Iranian oil imports by almost one-fifth since December, the sharpest cut among Asian buyers, in a move that should increase its chances of winning a new US waiver next month on sanctions targeting oil trade with Iran.Sanctions imposed by the US and Europe to force a halt to a controversial nuclear program that Tehran says is for peaceful purposes saw Iran's oil exports more ...

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