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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivers a speech in Tehran (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/File)

Khamenei Lashes Out at White House, Trump Criticizes Nuclear Deal

by Adel al-Salmi | Feb 8, 2017 | World

London – Iran’s Supreme Spiritual Leader Ali Khamenei criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest statements on the nuclear deal with restrained rhetoric, as analysts said that his criticism included no threat to respond militarily. Khamenei called on Iranians to...

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi briefs journalists at a press conference in Tehran on August 22, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Tehran: No Need to Test Washington or Kuwaiti Mediation with Gulf States

by Adel al-Salmi | Feb 7, 2017 | Middle East

London- Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Bahram Ghasemi said Monday that Tehran is by no means in need of testing the United States’ new administration, stressing the need for exercising self-restraint, avoiding rash responses to U.S. President Donald...

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Thousands of Iranians gathered for the funeral of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Reuters

Khamenei Mulling to Appoint Kermaniin to Replace Rafsanjani

by Adel al-Salmi | Jan 28, 2017 | World

London- It is likely that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will appoint cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermaniin to replace former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the leadership of Expediency Discernment Council, informed Iranian sources...

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Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani praying next to the coffin of the late former Iranian president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani at the Jamaran mosque in Tehran [EPA]

Iran Taking Its First Steps towards MarchPresidential Elections

by Adel al-Salmi | Jan 27, 2017 | World

London- Iranian member at the Expediency Discernment Council of the System Ali Akbar Nategh-Nuri harshly criticized the overt escalation of tensions among political factions in the country. “It will not lead to a solution, or serve the people’s best interest,”...

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Site of the Plasco collapse in Tehran, Iran

Public Demands for Tehran Mayor’s Step Down after Plasco Collapse

by Adel al-Salmi | Jan 22, 2017 | World

London- Tehran’s recent collapse of the Iranian capital’s oldest high-rise building triggered a wave of political criticism on social media, with people demanding that the Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf comes forth with his resignation. The damage to the Plasco...