TEHRAN, July 11 (UPI) -- One of Iran's senior clerics said Friday laws on campaigning and elections need to be made more specific and rules need to be set to avoid future "tensions."

TEHRAN, March 20 (UPI) -- Candidates for the June presidential elections in Iran should campaign on a platform of pragmatism, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani said during Friday prayers.

TEHRAN, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Interim Friday prayer leader Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani told followers in Tehran the "arrogant" United States was a failure.

TEHRAN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A sermon Friday in Iran by Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani reiterated Islamic doctrine forbidding nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.

TEHRAN, July 6 (UPI) -- Officials in Iran said the country's first nuclear plant will go on line soon.

TEHRAN, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani, leading Friday prayers in Tehran, vigorously denied Iranian involvement in the Iraq war. Kashani said accusations that Iran supplied Iraq with weapons that killed U.S. forces constituted "a lie."

TEHRAN, March 24 (UPI) -- The Iranian and Chinese foreign ministers reportedly discussed Iran's nuclear program in a telephone visit Friday but details were not forthcoming.

TEHRAN, June 6 (UPI) -- An Iranian cleric Friday accused the United States of planning to destroy Islamic values in the Muslim world.