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, June 26 (UPI) -- The Iranian opposition and its conservative rivals should settle disputes through legal measures and national conciliation, a leading grand ayatollah said.

ZAHEDAN, Iran, May 29 (UPI) -- Iranian intelligence officials arrested several suspects linked to a Thursday terrorist bombing at a mosque while leading clerics point to U.S.-Israeli ties.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- A State Department spokesman denied Iranian claims Friday that the United States and Israel were behind the bombing of a mosque.

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.