European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana holds a press conference in Tehran
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana looks on as he listens to Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili (not seen) during their meeting in Tehran, Iran on June 14, 2008. Solana presented to Iran the updated package of proposals seeking to resolve the problems that Iran's nuclear program raises with the international community and to enter into a normalized relationship with Iran. Germany and the five permanent United Nations Security Council members, Britain, the United States, France, Russia and China, prepared the new package. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
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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.
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.
Iranians vote Friday to choose a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the country's president.
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 Speaker of Parliament Gholam Ali Haddad Adel announced Monday he was pulling out of the Iranian presidential race four days before the vote.
Presidential candidates traded barbs over Iranian nuclear policy during debates Friday, with top negotiator Saeed Jalili being accused of incompetence.
Iran has no intention of retreating from its basic rights to conduct peaceful nuclear research, Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said.
With Iran just weeks away from electing a new president, the country's chief nuclear negotiator said that Iran maintains the right to keep enriching uranium.
The declining reputation of Iran and its related economic problems are the true enemies of the Islamic republic, former President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani said.
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