Tag: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Israel commits “weather theft” by cunningly manipulating clouds to prevent rain falling over Iran, an Iranian general has alleged.

Perhaps the next time we hear another hateful comment about the Holocaust from an Iranian official, we can remind ourselves of the two pre- and post-revolutionary Irans.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of stealing the people’s money to amass his fortune of approximately $800 billion toman, or $190 billion dollars.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week that that Islamic Republic’s ruling system has lost its legitimacy and demanded “fundamental reforms,” saying its leaders should be replaced through free and fair presidential elections.

TEHRAN, Iran — Three policemen were killed in “a vicious attack” in the Iranian capital during protests by a Sufi sect on Monday, a police spokesman told local media.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has reportedly engaged in a series of coordinated cyber warfare tactics to spy on, police, and arrest the Iranian people to secure its theocracy.

Contents: Arrested Iran reformist Mahdi Karroubi harshly criticizes Supreme Leader Khamenei; Iran’s ‘Girls of Revolution Street’ tear off their hijabs and headscarves

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani announced on Monday that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s central bank has stopped issuing permits and licenses for new private banks or commercial lenders.

WASHINGTON — Reza Pahlavi concentrates intently on the little cellphone in his hand, scrolling through clips of chanting Iranians and explaining why the protests unsettling his homeland are different this time. Even as the latest reports suggest the unrest may be ebbing, the scion of Persia’s 2,500-year-old monarchy believes Iran’s people are writing a new future for themselves, and perhaps for their exiled son.

A 23-year-old student protester arrested and taken into custody during the ongoing anti-Iranian regime protests died in the country’s notorious Evin Prison on Sunday, according to the Islamic Republic’s state-run media.

Multiple Israeli news sources, citing the UK-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi, reported on Sunday that Iranian authorities had arrested former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over disparaging remarks about successor Hassan Rouhani.

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been arrested by authorities for allegedly inciting unrest against the government, the London-based daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Saturday, citing “reliable sources in Tehran.”

TEL AVIV — There are no signs of external Arab nation involvement in the protests sweeping across Iran, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Unlike his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, President Donald Trump did not hesitate to take a leadership position to stand up for Iranian citizens protesting the terror-supporting, extremist regime of Iran.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – From its warmongering in Iraq, Syria, and to a degree in Yemen, to its meddling in Lebanon, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian territories and Turkey, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its terrorist proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, have caused chaos in the Middle East region since it came to power in 1979.

Tehran’s city council has appointed a U.S.-educated technocrat as the new mayor of Iran’s capital, part of a reformist sweep of seats on the municipal board in the May election.

On Friday, Iran will hold its 12th presidential election, where approximately 55 million eligible Iranians will have the opportunity to cast their ballots for either incumbent “reformist” President Hassan Rouhani or hardliner Ebrahim Raisi (also known as Ebrahim Rais os-Sadati), a close friend of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and his understudy.

Iran’s judiciary has reportedly blocked Instagram Live and the voice calls feature from Telegram ahead of the country’s May 19 presidential elections.

Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry famously said, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” But in discussing Iran’s nuclear weapons program, we need to ask what it says about subsequent American governments that they have been continually fooled by Tehran’s mullahs in their efforts to develop nuclear weapons.

Iran’s former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that he won’t endorse other candidates in next month’s election, after he and his deputy were barred from running.

Iran arrested more than thirty men between the ages of 16 and 30 at a private party in Isfahan last week, all of whom are suspected of being homosexuals.

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a big splash with his theatrical eleventh-hour entry into the 2017 presidential race, with some Iranian analysts immediately declaring him the third man in a three-way race (which has about 1,600 also-rans).

The field of candidates for Iran’s presidential field appears to be set. Here is a look at the major contenders, beginning with the incumbent.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday he does not view recent U.S. missile strikes on ally Syria as a message for Iran, which he called a “powerful country” that the U.S. cannot harm.

Contents: Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defies Supreme Leader and runs for president; Ahmadinejad waits for the appearance of the Mahdi

Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday unexpectedly filed to run in the country’s May presidential election, contradicting a recommendation from the supreme leader to stay out of the race.

In a lengthy and sometimes rambling letter to President Donald Trump, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — the man who famously said Israel should be wiped off the face of the Earth and the Holocaust was a myth — told Trump to be humble and keep his promises.

Contents: Iran’s ‘moderate pragmatist’ Hashemi Rafsanjani dies at age 82; Is Rafsanjani’s death a victory for Iran’s hardliners?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not run for president in next year’s Iranian election, he said on Tuesday, bowing to the wishes of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who said his candidacy would increase divisions in Iran.

The big political comeback of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to have been scuttled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who told Ahmadinejad not to run for president in the May elections, according to Iran’s state-run media.

Iran’s supreme leader has told former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pictured) not to stand again in next year’s elections, state media reported on Monday, effectively eliminating a major challenger to pragmatist incumbent Hassan Rouhani.

Iran’s former President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been making a political “comeback” (as Foreign Desk News puts it) and appears to be a strong contender against incumbent President Hassan Rouhani when elections are held eight months from now.

The Brazilian magazine Veja has published what it claims to be an official Venezuelan government document authorizing the purchase of multiple chemicals used to make weapons from the government of Iran, a violation of UN sanctions, in 2009.

Iran’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has written an open letter to Barack Obama, telling him to “fix” a Supreme Court ruling that could allow American victims of Iran-linked terrorism to seize $2 billion in frozen assets.

On a podium decorated as a bunker from the Iran-Iraq war, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad woos a crowd of hundreds with an anti-Western speech reminiscent of his fiery addresses as Iran’s president.