Iran politics soiled by `dirty money`: minister

Last Updated: Saturday, February 21, 2015, 21:30

Iran`s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said Saturday political life in the Islamic republic was tainted by "dirty money", including from drugs, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Ex-nuclear negotiator named to Iran arbitration body

Last Updated: Thursday, September 12, 2013, 21:27

Hardline former top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was on Thursday appointed to Iran`s top political arbitration body, the Expediency Council, state television reported.

Khamenei appoints Ahmadinejad member of expediency

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 09:45

Iran`s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appointed former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a member of Expediency Council, an administrative assembly.

Ahmadinejad gets post-presidency seat in top Iran council

Last Updated: Monday, August 5, 2013, 21:10

Iran`s supreme leader on Monday appointed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Expediency Council, the country`s top political arbitration body headed by an avid critic of the outgoing president.

Iran`s Ahmadinejad warns Israel will be `uprooted`

Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2013, 18:05

Iran`s outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned arch-foe Israel on Saturday in one of his last public speeches that a regional storm was brewing that would "uproot" the Jewish state.

Iran`s Ahmadinejad to set up university: Report

Last Updated: Saturday, July 27, 2013, 15:59

An Iranian news website says outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has obtained clearance to establish a technology university in Tehran after he leaves office next week.

Vladimir Putin to visit Iran for nuclear talks: Reports

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 21:42

President Vladimir Putin is to visit Iran in August to try to restart talks on Tehran`s controversial nuclear drive, a Russian newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Iran, Iraq have `exceptional` security role: Ahmadinejad

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 10:05

Iraq and Iran fought a bloody 1980-88 war launched by now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein.

Iranian president Ahmadinejad begins visit to Iraq

Last Updated: Thursday, July 18, 2013, 19:53

Highlighting the growing ties between the two Shiite-led neighbors, Iran`s outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad landed in Iraq on Thursday in his second official visit to the country.

Will Hassan Rouhani bring change in Iran?

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 08:28

Hassan Rouhani is the new President of Islamic Republic of Iran.

Iran`s Ahmadinejad meets newly elected successor

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 18:07

Iran`s outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met his successor Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday for the first time since the moderate conservative was elected, in talks centered on political and economic issues.