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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (L) meets with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi (R) in the capital Tehran on 5 March 2022. Picture: ATTA KENARE/AFP

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Iran says US made 'new demands' in nuclear talks

By AFP

Tehran is locked in negotiations with world powers to revive the nuclear deal that offered it sanctions relief in return for curbs on its atomic programme.

  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Iran's supreme leader mocks US democracy

    "What a spectacle!" supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted late Wednesday as the battle for the White House remained undecided over 24 hours after the last polling stations closed in the US state of Alaska.

    563 days ago
  • FILE: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Iran's Khamanei says UAE 'betrayed' Muslim world with Israel deal

    In the agreement, only the third such deal it has struck with an Arab country, Israel pledged to suspend annexation of Palestinian lands.

    628 days ago
  • A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 17 January 2020 shows him delivering a sermon to the crowd during Friday prayers in the capital Tehran. Picture: AFP

    Iran's Khamenei stands by Guards after unrest over downed plane

    In his first Friday prayers sermon in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also told worshippers chanting 'Death to America' that the elite Guards could take their fight beyond Iran’s borders after the US killing of a top Iranian commander.

    856 days ago
  • FILE: Protesters shout slogans against the United States and Israel as they hold posters with the image of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a demonstration in the Kashmiri town of Magam on 3 January 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Mourners pack Tehran to grieve Iran general Soleimani

    Clutching portraits of their hero, the crowd gathered at Tehran University before supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei presided over prayers for the slain general.

    868 days ago
  • FILE: Protesters shout slogans against the United States and Israel as they hold posters with the image of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a demonstration in the Kashmiri town of Magam on 3 January 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Tens of thousands rally in Iran capital against US 'crimes'

    US strikes killed a top Iranian commander, Qasem Soleimani, in Baghdad on Friday.

    870 days ago
  • FILE: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Iran warns of 'severe revenge' after US kills top general

    The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the commander of its Quds Force foreign operations arm had been killed by US forces in Baghdad, with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denouncing it as a 'dangerous escalation'.

    870 days ago
  • FILE: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Iran leader rules out US talks as tensions rise over Saudi attacks

    Tensions between Iran and the US and its allies have threatened to boil over since May last year when President Donald Trump abandoned a 2015 nuclear deal and began reimposing sanctions in its campaign of 'maximum pressure'.

    978 days ago
  • A picture released by the office of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressing the nation on the occasion the Iranian New Year on March 20, 2012. Picture: AFP

    Iran leader pardons 691 on Eid, but Lebanese excluded

    In total, the sentences of 691 prisoners were either commuted or deferred as decided by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as a gesture for the Eid al-Fitr holidays.

    1078 days ago
  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Iran's supreme leader says there will be no war with U.S.

    Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also reiterated that the Islamic Republic would not negotiate with the United States on another nuclear deal.

    1104 days ago
  • FILE: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP.

    Iran’s Khamenei calls US blacklisting of Guards a ‘vicious move’

    The US has already blacklisted dozens of entities and people for affiliations with the Revolutionary Guards, but not the organisation as a whole.

    1139 days ago
  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Ayatollah 'who dared to resist' returned to Iran 40 years ago

    Caught up in the revolutionary fervour, Heidarnik would soon abandon his computing major at university to join a seminary.

    1210 days ago
  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Iran arrests population expert accused of spy links

    The IRNA state news agency did not give details of the charges, but quoted a lawyer who named the expert as Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi.

    1267 days ago
  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    US sanctions on Iran, 'toughest ever,' take force Monday

    Taking effect Monday, the measures are the most concrete result yet of US President Donald Trump's controversial decision in May to abandon the multi-nation nuclear deal with Tehran.

    1295 days ago
  • FILE: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP.

    Trump has ‘disgraced’ US prestige - Iran’s Khamenei

    A defiant Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the renewed US sanctions - including an oil embargo - that take effect on Monday.

    1296 days ago
  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Iran warns US, Israel of revenge after parade attack

    The deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards also accused the United States and Israel of involvement in the attack.

    1336 days ago
  • This picture taken on 22 September 2018 in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz shows an Iranian soldier carrying an injured comrade at the scene of an attack on a military parade that was marking the anniversary of the outbreak of its devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Picture: AFP

    Iran's Khamenei blames Gulf Arab states for military parade attack

    An Iranian ethnic Arab opposition movement called the Ahvaz National Resistance, which seeks a separate state in oil-rich Khuzestan province, claimed responsibility for the attack.

    1338 days ago
  • FILE: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Khamenei says war unlikely but urges boosting Iran's defences

    On Saturday, Iran announced plans to boost its ballistic and cruise missile capacity and acquire modern fighter planes and submarines to boost its defences following the US pullout from Tehran’s nuclear agreement with world powers.

    1358 days ago
  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Iran supreme leader says 'obvious mistake' to negotiate with US: website

    Ali Khamenei said on Saturday it would be an “obvious mistake” to negotiate with the United States as Washington was unreliable.

    1401 days ago
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