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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...
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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.
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Tens of thousands rally in Iran capital against US 'crimes'
US strikes killed a top Iranian commander, Qasem Soleimani, in Baghdad on Friday.
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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'.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Iran's supreme leader calls for government to be backed in face of US sanctions
The likely return of US economic sanctions has triggered a rapid fall of Iran’s currency and protests by bazaar traders usually loyal to the Islamist rulers, and a public outcry over alleged price gouging and profiteering.
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Iran’s leaders seek ways to defend economy from US sanctions
Since May, when President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear which lifted most sanctions in 2015, the rial currency has dropped up to 40% in value.
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Iran reopens uranium feedstock plant in preparation to boost enrichment
US-Iranian tensions have resurged since President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the 2015 nuclear accord, calling it deeply flawed.
