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  • Irans most-reform minded candidate blocked from running for presidential election

    One of Iran's most reform-minded presidential candidates has been barred from contesting next month's presidential election. The conservative Guardian Council barred Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from contesting election leaving just eight men on the ballot paper, all of whom are considered hardliners. Rafsanjani, 78, served as president between 1989 and 1997, and according to the Guardian Council ...

  • Saudi Arabia nabs 10 over spying for Iran

    Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 people on suspicion of espionage for Iran, the interior ministry announced Tuesday. "Following an initial investigation, the security forces arrested 10 more suspects over involvement in the espionage acts for an Iranian espionage cell, reported Xinhua citing a spokesperson for the ministry. The arrestees, comprising eight Saudis, a Lebanese and a Turk, are linked ...

  • Iran Bars Candidacies of Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad Aide

    IA conservative body in Iran 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 candidates ...

  • Kerry Mideast Talks on Syria to Include Russian Call for Involving Iran

    STATE DEPARTMENT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the Middle East this week for talks to promote an international peace conference on Syria. Russia wants Iran to be part of the process. In this fight for control of Syria, Iran is one of the biggest backers of embattled President Bashar al-Assad. So Russia says Iran should be part of the peace process. "Iran has ...

  • Iran allows eight contenders for presidential election

    Iranian legislative body has approved eligibility of eight presidential candidates for the June 14 poll in the country, Xinhua reported Tuesday. The candidates, including the country's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and former foreign minister Ali-Akbar Velayati -- for the presidential election have been approved by Iran's Guardian Council of Constitution, semi-official Mehr news agency ...

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  • US slams Irans disqualification of candidates

    The United States on Tuesday condemned Iran's disqualification of hundreds of would-be presidentialcandidates, accusing the "unaccountable" clerical leadership of seeking to tighten its grip on ...

  • Iran bars Rafsanjani from standing for president

    Iran said Tuesday the moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was among those barred from standing in next month's presidential election, provoking a sharp reaction from Washington. Rafsanjani and a controversial aide of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been ruled unsuitable, the interior ministry said Tuesday. The Guardians Council, a conservative-dominated vetting body, omitted ...

  • Iran Hezbollah role in Syria complicates peace strategy

    As evidence grows of increased Iranian support for the Syrian government, the Obama administration's strategy to bring the bitter fighting there to a close faces more challenges than ever. With White House support, Secretary of State John Kerry has pushed for an international conference in Geneva in June that would bring representatives of the Syria government together with the ...

  • S.Koreas Iran crude imports for April down 44.4 pct yy

    SEOUL | Wed May 22, 2013 1:03am EDT SEOUL May 22 (Reuters) - South Korea imported 4.18 million barrels of crude from Iran in April, down 44.4 percent from a year ago, official data showed on Wednesday a few days ahead of talks with Washington on extending Seoul's waiver for U.S. sanctions on Tehran. The country's crude imports from Iran last month rose 4 percent compared with ...

  • Ten more arrested in Iranian espionage case

    An official spokesman from the Saudi government has confirmed the arrest of 10 people involved in an Iranian espionage cell who were allegedly associated with the same spy network that was dismantled in March of this year by Saudi security officials. A security spokesman confirmed that the latest cell had eight Saudis, one Lebanese and one Turkish national. "Initial investigations carried ...

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