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  • Iran stacks presidential candidate list with safe Khamenei men

    FILE -- In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 file photo, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, ...

  • U.S. casts doubt on credibility of Iran’s upcoming election

    United States Friday called into question the credibility of Iran’s presidential election next month, criticizing the disqualification of candidates and ...

  • Iranian Filmmaker Presents Secret Film At Cannes

    An Iranian director sentenced to prison in 2010 for antigovernment propaganda has appeared at the Cannes film festival for the screening of a new film about censorship, which he shot in secret in Iran. The circumstances of Mohammad Rasoulof's visit to Cannes on May 24 and the location where he now lives remain strictly confidential. He was arrested with fellow director Jafar Panahi ...

  • Iran Prepares Itself for June Presidential Vote By Stepping Up Security Measures

    Iranian authorities are doing their utmost to ensure that there is no repeat of the daily unrest that followed the 2009 presidential election. (file ...

  • Iranian candidate vows to resist West

    Tehran, Iran - Iran's top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next month's presidential elections, vowed Friday he will pursue a policy of resistance against the West if ...

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The Kingdom

The Kingdom

In dealing with the hot-button issues of terrorism, Middle East relations, and the United States' perceived role as world policeman, The Kingdom is in the position of having to strike a particularly delicate balancing act in satisfying the action-junkie set ... ...

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  • Iran - Governments actions threaten prospect of free and fair elections in Iran

    Serious electoral flaws and human rights abuses by the Iranian government undermine any meaningful prospect of free and fair elections on June 14, 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. Dozens of political activists and journalists detained during the violent government crackdown that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election remain in prison, two former presidential candidates are under ...

  • Irans clerical leaders cut presidency down to size

    "I think it is not possible to run the country worse than this," said the former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, right, after he became one of 700 candidates barred from standing in the election this week. He is normally reticent in criticising the Iranian authorities. There has frequently between tension between Iranian presidents and Iran's supreme spiritual leader ...

  • Nuclear agencys Iran probe guided by US intelligence

    VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency's efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international community.Much of the world looks at U.S. intelligence on weapons development with a suspicious eye, given ...

  • Iran’s Rafsanjani should enter race...over 200 metres says ally

    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, is not too old for politics, according to one of his supporters, who says the former president should challenge political rivals to a 200-metre sprint and a wrestling ...

  • Why Iran May Pose A Greater Cybersecurity Risk Than China

    report from the Wall Street Journal about Iranian infiltration of U.S. energy firms shows why their cyber-assaults could pose a greater immediate threat to U.S. national security. While China pursues ...

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