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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...
In the agreement, only the third such deal it has struck with an Arab country, Israel pledged to suspend annexation of Palestinian lands.
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.
Clutching portraits of their hero, the crowd gathered at Tehran University before supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei presided over prayers for the slain general.
US strikes killed a top Iranian commander, Qasem Soleimani, in Baghdad on Friday.
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'.
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'.
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.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also reiterated that the Islamic Republic would not negotiate with the United States on another nuclear deal.
The US has already blacklisted dozens of entities and people for affiliations with the Revolutionary Guards, but not the organisation as a whole.
Caught up in the revolutionary fervour, Heidarnik would soon abandon his computing major at university to join a seminary.
The IRNA state news agency did not give details of the charges, but quoted a lawyer who named the expert as Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi.
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.
A defiant Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the renewed US sanctions - including an oil embargo - that take effect on Monday.
The deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards also accused the United States and Israel of involvement in the 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.
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.
Ali Khamenei said on Saturday it would be an “obvious mistake” to negotiate with the United States as Washington was unreliable.
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.