Tag: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Japan PM meets Iran leader on mission to ease tensions

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday.

June 13, 2019

US orders non-emergency embassy staff to leave Baghdad, Erbil

The US last year shut its consulate in the protest-hit southern Iraqi city of Basra, blaming "indirect fire" by Iran-backed forces and warning its rival of retaliation for any damage.

May 15, 2019

Butchery in Iran

In death, four-year-old Mohammad-Taha Eghdami, whose photograph went viral in Iran over the weekend, symbolises the calculated malevolence that drove terrorists to attack a military parade, killing 29 people, including conscripts and children. Crucially enough, the parade had been organised to mark the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. …

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September 25, 2018

Iran ramps it up

Iran has ratcheted up the pressure on Europe, whose diplomats have been scrambling to salvage the nuclear deal that is on the verge of a fizzle after the pullout by Donald Trump’s America. The new initiative, articulated on Tuesday by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, unveils a plan to increase uranium enrichment. The government …

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June 8, 2018

Nuclear competition

Having been engaged since 2015 in a war without end in Yemen, Saudi Arabia’s seemingly reformist Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has now ratcheted up the pressure on Iran, indeed going back in time to compare the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to Adolf Hitler. The comparison between the two figures has not been suitably …

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March 17, 2018

Khamenei voices support for Syrian resistance

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday lauded what he called the Syrian government’s resistance against terrorism. “Syria is on the frontline, so our duty is to support the Syrian resistance,” Khamenei said in a meeting with the visiting Syrian Minister of Religious Endowments, Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed, and a number of Syrian clerics. He …

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March 2, 2018

Collapse of IS is defeat of US: Iran’s top leader Ayatollah Khamenei

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the victory over the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria is a defeat of the US in the region, a media report said. He said the victory over the IS is tantamount to the defeat of plots to sow division and wage a civil …

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November 22, 2017

Turkish President Erdogan in Iran for key meetings

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in the Iranian capital on Wednesday for key talks with senior Iranian officials. During his day-long official visit, Erdogan will meet his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to discuss boosting bilateral relations as well as regional and international issues, Xinhua news agency reported. Erdogan …

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October 4, 2017

‘Thank you Trump for showing real face of America’

Iran´s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday he was grateful to US President Donald Trump for revealing "the real face of America". "We are thankful to this gentleman… he showed the real face of America," Khamenei was quoted by state-owned Press TV in a speech to military officers in Tehran. "What we have …

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February 7, 2017