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Nobel prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. Reuters

Ebadi Warns against Using Attacks in Tehran as Pretext to Suppress Ethnic Diversity

by Adel al-Salmi | Jun 21, 2017 | World

London- Iranian Lawyer Shirin Ebadi, who won the Noble Peace Prize in 2003, warned against using the two attacks on Tehran as an “excuse to suppress ethnic diversity and silence civil society activists” in Iran. Meanwhile, Iranian MP Nader Ghazipour...

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Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, shown at a 2009 clerical gathering, oversees an organization called Setad that has assets estimated at about $95 billion. REUTERS/Khamenei.ir/Handout

Khamenei Finger-Wagging Threatens Rouhani with Impeachment

by Adel al-Salmi | Jun 14, 2017 | World

London- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reiterated his concerns on polarization taking a toll on the country over political rifts among officials, labeling the situation as grave. Khamenei made clear threats on ousting former president Abolhassan Banisadr from...

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Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei (Reuters/file photo)

Khamenei Defends Execution of Thousands of Prisoners in Summer of 1988

by Adel al-Salmi | Jun 5, 2017 | World

London- Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei defended on Sunday the executions conducted in Iran in the 1980s and indirectly criticized the statements of newly elected President Hassan Rouhani. Speaking at a gathering of senior officials in Tehran to mark the...

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Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Director, speaks to the media after his arrival at Damascus airport, September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri

Iran to Dispatch More Forces to Syria

by Adel al-Salmi | May 29, 2017 | Middle East

London – Following statements by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani on Iran’s readiness to double its military presence in Syria, Russian Ambassador to Tehran Levan Dzhagaryan said on Sunday that the Iranian official’s visit...

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A ballistic missile is launched and tested in an undisclosed location, Iran, March 9, 2016. REUTERS/Mahmood Hosseini

Iran Challenges International Community by Revealing Third Missile Factory

by Adel al-Salmi | May 26, 2017 | World

London- Iran’s Revolutionary Guards revealed on Thursday the country’s third underground factory for the production of ballistic missiles, challenging the international community once again. Iran’s head of the Republican Guard’s airspace division Amir Ali...