Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends ceremony in Tehran
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speeks to the crowd during a ceremony marking the 22th anniversary of death of Iranian late supreme leader Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at Khomieni’s shrine in Tehran, Iran on June 4, 2011. Photo is official handout from Khamenei's office. UPI
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The most recent terrorist attack on June 15, which left two dead and more than 70 people wounded, proved once more that the most urgent question now is the security and safety of the 3,100 people of the Iranian opposition People's Mujahedin of Iran trapped in Camp Liberty.
Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani vowed Monday to lead a government engaged with the international community with a moderate policy.
Thousands of Iranians celebrated the country's newly elected President Hassan Rouhani, officials said.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei matters more in terms of foreign policy than the next Iranian president, a U.S. expert on Iran said Friday.
This month, two major events in the Iranian political calendar will take place only a matter of days apart: Iran's presidential elections began Friday and the largest gathering of Iran's opposition movement is to take place in Paris just eight days later.
As millions of Iranians cast ballots in the country's presidential election, one candidate has been reaching out to reformists in recent days.
With the Revolutionary Guards poised to crash down on any political protests, Iran goes to the polls Friday in a presidential election in which the real winner will be the Islamic Republic's dour supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Debates between the eight candidates running for president in Iran show diverse opinions are welcomed in the Islamic republic, the ruling cleric said Wednesday.
Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday he'd support reform leader Hassan Rohani after a leading counterpart withdrew from the race.
Former Speaker of Parliament Gholam Ali Haddad Adel announced Monday he was pulling out of the Iranian presidential race four days before the vote.
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