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by Ali Noorani Agence France-Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – Iran began three days of mourning Monday after the death of ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pillar of the Islamic revolution who became a leading counterweight to hardliners. Tributes poured in for the moderate cleric, including from President Hassan Rouhani, who was reportedly at Rafsanjani’s bedside before he died of a heart attack aged 82. “Islam lost a valuable treasure, Iran an outstanding general, the Islamic […]
by Ali Noorani Agence France Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pugnacious moderate who survived for decades despite challenging his own turbaned elite, died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack. Rafsanjani, who was 82, was a pivotal figure in the foundation of the Islamic republic in 1979, and served as president from 1989 to 1997. “Despite the efforts of the doctors he died” at Shohadaa Hospital in northern […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Monday expressed support for OPEC’s plans to limit the cartel’s output ahead of a crucial meeting this week. In a telephone conversation, the two leaders said the cartel’s efforts were “an essential element” for returning stability to global oil prices, a Kremlin statement said. “The importance of steps taken by OPEC to limit the production of commodities was emphasized as […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Iran nuclear deal would fall apart if a US administration walked away from it, as President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to do, the State Department said Thursday. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani had argued on Wednesday that the deal — which saw world powers lift sanctions on Tehran in return for controls on its nuclear program — has been enshrined in international law. The outgoing US administration is proud of […]
TEHRAN, Iran | AFP | Monday 10/17/2016 – 18:29 GMT+8 | 201 words Iran said Monday its oil production capacity will hit four million barrels per day by March after it was exempted from an informal agreement among OPEC members to lower output to boost prices. “Our production capacity was 3.8 million (bpd) after the first half of the year. We will take it to 4.03 million by the end of the year” in […]
(REUTERS) The United States is looking at whether Russia has violated a U.N. Security Council resolution on military dealings with Tehran by using an Iranian air base to carry out strikes inside Syria, the State Department said on Wednesday. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said U.S. government attorneys had not yet decided whether they think Russia’s use of the Iranian base is a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, which was passed as […]
by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia said Tuesday its warplanes flew out of an Iranian airbase for the first time to bomb jihadist groups in Syria, as fighting raged for control of the ravaged city of Aleppo. The United States said the Russian move made the Syrian crisis even more difficult, but it credited Moscow with having given it a brief advance warning. The defense ministry in Moscow said long-range warplanes took off […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) – by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Russia said Tuesday its warplanes flew out of an Iranian airbase for the first time to bomb jihadist groups in Syria, as fighting raged for control of the ravaged city of Aleppo. The deployment marks a major switch in the bombing campaign the Kremlin launched in September to support Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, as until now Moscow had only flown raids out of its bases in Syria and Russia. Russia’s defence […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – by Ali NOORANI Iran said Thursday it had hanged 20 “terrorist” Sunni prisoners, in one of the Islamic republic’s biggest mass executions in recent years. The men, who were hanged on Tuesday, were accused of carrying out a string of attacks against civilians and religious leaders in Iran’s western Kurdish region, state media reported. Iran’s intelligence ministry earlier issued a statement detailing 24 armed attacks between 2009 and 2011, including bombings […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The White House on Wednesday denied renewed accusations that it paid Iran ransom for the release of four American prisoners, parrying a tidal wave of condemnations from Republicans. Amid revelations that the US helped airlift $400 million worth of Swiss francs and euros to Iran after a prisoner release, the White House insisted the two were not linked. In January, five American prisoners were released as Washington […]
Iranian flags. (File photo) Tehran, Iran (AFP)—Tehran on Sunday dismissed its renewed blacklisting by Washington as a state sponsor of terrorism, charging that it was United States allies including Riyadh that were the real culprits. The Iranian foreign ministry noted its role in neighboring Iraq supporting the government against the Islamic State jihadist group independently of a US-led coalition, as well as its backing for the Syrian regime against jihadists and other rebels, some […]
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) — Iranians went to the polls on Friday (February 26) to vote for the first time since last year’s nuclear deal in elections that could determine whether the Islamic Republic continues to emerge from diplomatic and economic isolation after years of sanctions. The contest will pit supporters of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, who championed the nuclear deal and is likely to seek a second presidential term next year, against conservatives deeply opposed […]
