Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Iran disqualifies Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from presidential elections
World | Apr 21, 2017, 09:57 AM ISTIran's high legislative body, Guardian Council of Constitution, on Thursday disqualified former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the upcoming presidential elections slated to be held on May 19.
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Iran arrests former vice president under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
World | Jun 08, 2015, 11:15 PM ISTTehran, Iran: Iranian authorities on Monday arrested a former vice president who served under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the second such detention of a senior official from the hard-line former leader's administration, the official IRNA news
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may get 74 lashes for allegedly breaking election law
World | May 14, 2013, 04:29 PM ISTTehran, May 14: Iran's constitutional watchdog said it will seek possible charges against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly violating rules by accompanying his chief adviser to the election registry office the previous day.A conviction could
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Go Build 4 Nuclear Reactors, Ahmadinejad Tells Iranian Scientists
World | Feb 16, 2012, 10:23 AM ISTTehran, Feb 16 : Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday ordered Iran to "go build" four more nuclear research reactors in addition to the sole one operating in Tehran."It has been estimated that four nuclear
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Ahmadinejad's Media Adviser Arrested
World | Nov 21, 2011, 10:20 PM ISTTehran, Nov 21: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's media adviser was arrested on Monday in his office by the judiciary, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported, without giving a reason for his arrest. "A few minutes
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Iran Says UN Nuclear Chief Is American Pawn
World | Nov 08, 2011, 07:27 PM ISTTehran, Nov 8: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticized the head of the U.N.'s nuclear agency as an American pawn, in the run-up to its expected release of evidence which purports to document Tehran's nuclear
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Ahmadinejad Threatnes To Send US, Israel To The Morgue
World | Jul 21, 2011, 06:13 PM ISTTehran, July 21: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened to destroy the US and Israel and send them to the “morgue” if Iran is put on the defensive. “Resistance will continue until Iran sends its
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Ahmadinejad Meets India's National Security Adviser
World | Mar 08, 2011, 10:11 AM ISTTehran, Mar 7: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met visiting Shivshankar Menon, India's National Security Adviser, on Monday evening in Tehran.India and Iran have close political and economic ties. Before his meeting with Ahmadinejad, Menon had
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Iran's Foreign Minister Sacked
World | Dec 14, 2010, 10:29 AM ISTTehran, Dec 14 : Iran's president abruptly fired his foreign minister on Monday and named the nuclear chief as acting top diplomat, the latest sign of a rift at the top levels of the Islamic
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Ahmadinejad Again Calls For Fresh Probe Into 9/11 Attacks
World | Oct 04, 2010, 08:52 AM ISTIran's president on Sunday once more questioned who was behind the September 11 attacks in the United States and said they gave Washington a pretext for seeking to dominate the region and plunder its oil