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Eyewitness News
April 27, 2018
“Any change or amendment to the current deal will not be accepted by Iran,” said Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars reported. “If Trump exits the deal, Iran will surely pull out of it ... Iran will not accept a nuclearÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 27, 2018
“If Trump exits the deal, Iran will surely pull out of it… Iran will not accept a nuclear deal with no benefits for us,” said Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council of the System Mohsen Rezaee recommended that theÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 4, 2018
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said it would be an "unforgivable mistake" to negotiate with Israel, days after Saudi Arabia's crown prince for the first time said Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land. Although Khamenei, in remarks carried on his website on April 4, did notÃâà...
RadioFarda
March 30, 2018
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's military adviser Hossein Dehghan has likened defiant former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to “the door of a mosque, which may not be burnt or thrown away,” an allusion to the fact that Ahmadinjad is part and parcel of the Islamic regime in Iran regardless of hisÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 29, 2018
Iran's supreme leader is reported to not be in favor of polygamy, denying a fatwa attributed to him about the matter. Twitter/@khamenei_ir. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a mourning ceremony on the anniversary of the death of Hazrat Fatima, Tehran, Iran. Posted Feb. 17, 2018. In a moveÃâà...
Business Insider
March 23, 2018
The Department of Justice just announced charges against nine Iranians for an elaborate hacking scheme that targeted more than 140 US universities. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the charges in a Friday press conference.
Al-Monitor
March 22, 2018
During his annual Nowruz speech from the city of Mashhad, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed the important issues of the year that has passed and discussed the upcoming year. One segment of his speech, however, stood out among others, which received a large reaction online.
gulfnews.com
March 21, 2018
The Saudi crown prince has likened Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe in the Second World War wreaked havoc on international peace and stability, noted the Jordan Times. The prince also warned in no uncertain terms that his country would, withoutÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 21, 2018
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed the nation on Iranian New Year, praising the country's policies amid tensions with Washington and crises in the Middle East. Iran "defused regional threats — one of their aims was to harm the Islamic Republic — these threats did not damage ourÃâà...
The Jewish Voice
March 21, 2018
Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince has compared the Supreme leader of Iran to Adolf Hitler, during a recorded interview for 60 Minutes. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also said his country would acquire a nuclear weapon “as soon as possible” if Iran built one, Irish Times reported. “He wants toÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 20, 2018
With his two closest confidants behind bars, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is lashing out by writing open letters to both Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani. On March 13, former Vice President Hamid Baghaei began a 15-yearÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 20, 2018
Then after Khomeini's death in June 1989, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was nominated Iran's Supreme Leader, and with a mixture of confrontation and feigned mediation with world leaders, he mastered the game of playing one nation against the other. Feeling confident that his new mix of brinkmanship andÃâà...
The Daily Star
March 20, 2018
A handout photo provided by the official website of Iranian Supreme leader Ali Khamenei, on March 20 2018, shows him addressing the nation on the occasion of Noruz, the Persian New Year, in Tehran. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / IRANIAN SUPREMEÃâà...
RadioFarda
March 19, 2018
Iran's former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lambasted the ongoing political deadlock in the country in two strongly worded letters to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad warned that “Public dissatisfaction with the regime's performance is serious and extremely high” andÃâà...
The Jewish Voice
March 19, 2018
Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince has compared the Supreme leader of Iran to Adolf Hitler, during a recorded interview for 60 Minutes. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also said his country would acquire a nuclear weapon “as soon as possible” if Iran built one, Irish Times reported. “He wants toÃâà...
Business Insider
March 5, 2018
Le Drian is due to meet Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as well as officials close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, including Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council. Khamenei said on March 1 that Iran would keep supporting Assad's war effort and a ForeignÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 5, 2018
Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei slammed President Trump and Congress on social media Sunday for not daring to stand up to the gun lobby and introduce a nationwide ban on all firearms. "No one dares apply the clear solution to the promotion of guns and homicide in America. What's the solution?
Tehran Times
March 3, 2018
TEHRAN - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “appeared as a great example of resistance and a fighting image”. “Bashar al-Assad appeared as a great example of resistance and a fighting image; he never hesitated andÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 1, 2018
According to Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Russia's veto of a United Nations draft resolution linking Iranian arms to Houthi militias in Yemen is a sign of improving ties between the two countries. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with SyrianÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 1, 2018
The disappearance of Haghanian, who also serves as a political assistant in the private inspection office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has since Jan. 31 raised questions and speculations that there are confusions in the house of the Supreme leader. The news was reported on Tuesday onÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
February 28, 2018
The disappearance of Haghanian, who also serves as a political assistant in the private inspection office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has since Jan. 31 raised questions and speculations that there are confusions in the house of the Supreme leader. The news was reported on Tuesday onÃâà...
Middle East Media Research Institute
February 27, 2018
Speaking on February 1, 2018 in Mashhad, at the Conference for Support of the Palestinian Intifada, Ali Akbar Velayati, senior advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, responded to Iranian critics of the regime who, during last month's uprising, protested against Iran's involvement in variousÃâà...
The Japan Times
February 26, 2018
TEHRAN – Iran's supreme leader has signaled a decisive shift in favor of relations with China and Russia, indicating that patience is running out with efforts to improve ties with the West. One of the most popular slogans during the 1979 revolution was “Neither East nor West,” a defiant vow that Iran wouldÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 11, 2018
The 39th anniversary of the revolution in Iran promises to be a somber occasion for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Massoumeh Torfeh by Massoumeh Torfeh. 11 Feb 2018. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during Friday prayers in Tehran September [Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters]. The 39th anniversaryÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
February 6, 2018
Farsi sites reported that the Iranian authorities on Monday arrested Hussein al-Shirazi, the son of Sadiq al-Shirazi, the famous Shiite cleric in Qom, because of a lecture in which he described the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei as "the pharaoh." The microphone news site published a copy ofÃâà...
CBC.ca
January 30, 2018
Instead of blaming others, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should take responsibility for Iran's economic and political shortcomings, an opposition leader under house arrest said in a letter published on Tuesday. In rare public criticism of Khamenei, Mehdi Karroubi accused Iran's hardline top authority of abusingÃâà...
Voltaire Network
December 31, 1999
The Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has written a letter to the Guide of the Revolution (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei), accusing him of embezzling 80 billion rials. The letter accuses the Guide of siphoning this money from 15 funds that had been placed under hisÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
When asked about his previous comments comparing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, to Hitler, he replied, “Absolutely.” “He wants to create his own project in the Middle East very much like Hitler, who wanted to expand at the time,” Prince Mohammed said. “Many countries around theÃâà...
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose contested re-election plunged Iran into its largest street protests since the 1979 revolution, has written an open letter addressed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for free elections. Ahmadinejad said the letter, published on his websiteÃâà...
