Moderate cleric and former nuclear negotiator Rowhani sworn in as President of Iran
The 64-year-old could name his cabinet as early as today, with Iranian media reporting it’s likely to be made up of Western educated technocrats.
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The 64-year-old could name his cabinet as early as today, with Iranian media reporting it’s likely to be made up of Western educated technocrats.
The moderate cleric is facing serious challenges as he begins his four year term. His public inauguration will take place tomorrow.
World powers have pressed hope that Hassan Rowhani will end decades of unease with an emerging nuclear power.
Tens of millions of voters are turning out across the country to choose a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Voting has gotten under way as Iranians decide who they want to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
A news website editor has been arrested after reporting on tapes where Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ‘discusses vote-rigging’.
Iran has said that it’s their right to enrich uranium, but experts fear that it could be turned into a nuclear warhead in a matter of months.
The unmanned drone is reported to have been captured after it entered Iranian airspace, the Revolutionary Guards have said. t
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied that his criticism of homosexuality amounted to a denial of individual freedoms.
Scandal centred on bank loans through allegedly forged or illegally-obtained letters of credit to buy several state companies.
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Some lawmakers are calling for the impeachment of Iran’s flamboyant president – claiming that he openly defied the wished of the country’s Ayatollah.
Anonymous diplomats have told the Associated Press that Iran has readied an underground site for thousands of centrifuges.
Iran and UN nuclear inspectors are due to start discussions regarding the country’s controversial nuclear programme this weekend.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on a friendly trip around Latin America visiting leftist leaders who share his animosity towards the US.
Hugo Chavez has welcomed Iran’s president onto Venezuelan soil and called for his country to leave a World Bank-affiliated body. Meanwhile, Washington has expelled Venezuela’s consul general in Miami.
New clampdowns on online expression are thought to be preparing citizens for a sanitised national intranet, launched within weeks.
British diplomatic staff in Iran have been withdrawn following an attack on its embassy in Tehran yesterday – during which protesters shouting “Death to England” smashed windows, burned British flags and set a car alight.
US delegates leave chambers after President Ahmadinejad refers to 9/11 attacks as a “mystery”.
The UN’s nuclear agency says it is “increasingly concerned” that Iran is secretly building an offensive nuclear programme.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wonders why the Security Council is “silent” as British citizens lash out against their government.
Iran plans to triple its output of the higher enriched uranium in 2011 and move the entire program to the new, secretly-built facility.
The Iranian government is reportedly preparing to roll out a national version of the web.
Two people are killed, and 20 injured, by a suspected gas leak during a visit by the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Tensions between the President and Ayatollah hit a turbulent patch, after the latter restores a sacked minister to cabinet.
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Iran’s first unmanned military aircraft is unveiled one day after the country begins loading its nuclear reactor.
Days after Ahmadinejad said Zionists were out to assassinate him.