updated Sun. October 15, 2023
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Iran Press Watch
May 18, 2015
At the seventh year anniversary of the detention of the leaders of the Baha'i community of Iran, Mahnaz Parakand, one of the three attorneys who defended them, tells BBC Persian that her clients' trial proceedings were compromised and the accusations against them were unfounded. Fariba KamalabadiÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 2, 2014
... of giving in to the West and the United States. The Basij news agency reported that Ahmadinejad's trip to the southern region of Iran was part of his Norouz vacation. His family and Gholamhossein Elham, who acted as government spokesman during Ahmadinejad's first term, accompanied him on the trip.
Los Angeles Times (blog)
June 1, 2010
“Not only would no nation or government accept this … but it would also consider it as hostile behavior, which is the result of cultural and psychological warfare,” Tehran official Gholamhossein Elham said in March 2007. While Tehran officials framed the film as a primer to stir the American populace for war,Ãâà...
Payvand
October 16, 2007
Iranian government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham told reporters on October 14 that the leaders are expected to sign a joint declaration at the end of the summit. Comments by Iranian politicians and commentators indicate concerns that Tehran might find it difficult -- at this and future conferences -- toÃâà...
The Market Oracle
January 10, 2007
Iran, the world's fourth largest oil producer, “is calculating and receiving oil revenues based on Euros for the 2007 budget,” said government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham on Dec 18th. Most international banks have already stopped US dollar transactions with the Islamic Republic of Iran because ofÃâà...
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
May 26, 2006
Last month, in a press conference, Gholamhossein Elham, head of the president's office, joked that oil has a disgusting smell and therefore does not belong on the dining table. On May 1, observed in Iran as Labor Day, workers demonstrated in Tehran and across the country, denouncing the government'sÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
February 9, 2006
In a Tehran news conference, chief government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham said that "the Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to sacrifice its life for its belief in Islam and the honor of the prophet." He called the cartoons symptomatic of the West's "anti-Islamic and Islamophobic current -- which will beÃâà...
