Iran's Friday Prayer
Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, deputy head of the influential Assembly of Experts and a close aide of the president speaks during Friday Prayer at Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran on August 14, 2009. UPI/STR
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TEHRAN, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- EU sanctions on Iran are aimed at influencing upcoming parliamentary elections in the Islamic republic, a leading cleric said Friday.
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A senior Iranian cleric said Saturday the country will not be forced to give up its nuclear enrichment program by a resolution from a U.N. watchdog agency.
TEHRAN, June 26 (UPI) -- A senior Iranian cleric close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called rioters enemies of God during a Friday sermon.
TEHRAN, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Gone is the era of the United States as a superpower, as world opinion of America is poor, said Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami in his Friday sermon.
TEHRAN, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A leading Iranian cleric during Friday prayers blamed U.S. hegemonic policies in Iraq and Afghanistan for the looming economic crisis hitting world markets.
TEHRAN, June 20 (UPI) -- Iran will retaliate with a "united roar" if Israel conducts air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, a senior cleric said Friday.
TEHRAN, May 2 (UPI) -- Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, one of Iran's leading clerics, in a Friday sermon denounced Bush administration claims that Iran sponsors terrorism.
TEHRAN, April 4 (UPI) -- An Iranian organization has begun work on a documentary, "Beyond Fitna," that aims to do to the Bible what a right-wing Dutch politician did to the Koran.
TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Iran's Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said in Tehran Friday U.S. President George Bush is wasting his time on his ongoing Middle East peace tour.
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