Posts Tagged ‘ahmadinejad’

Biden sanctions Iran former President Ahmadinejad after prisoner swap

Fresh off a prisoner swap between Washington and Tehran, US President Joe Biden announced, on Monday, new sanctions against a former Iranian president and the country’s Intelligence Ministry, Anadolu Agency reports. Today, we are sanctioning former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence under the Levinson Act for their involvement in wrongful detentions […]

Iran’s ex-President Ahmadinejad among political heavyweights vying for presidency ahead of upcoming elections

A string of prominent Iranian politicians have entered the presidential race in a bid to replace Hassan Rouhani. The list includes former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as well as the chief justice and an ex-parliament speaker. Iran is heading for presidential elections scheduled for June 18 that will determine a successor to the incumbent President Hassan […]

Iran’s Former Hardline President Ahmadinejad to Run Again

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Tasnim News Agency Iran’s hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday registered to run again in an election in June which is being seen as a test of the legitimacy of the country’s clerical rulers. Vilified in the West for his questioning of the Holocaust, Ahmadinejad […]

Polarizing Ahmadinejad to run for Iranian presidency again

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Deputy of ex-Iranian President Ahmadinejad arrested

A deputy of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested as part of an investigation by the country’s revolutionary court, according to the state channel on Saturday. In November, Iran’s Revolutionary Court had summoned Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei — who briefly held the position of vice president under Ahmadinejad — to answer to […]

America’s 2015 wildfire season is now the most expensive on record

     The 2015 wildfire season is now the costliest on record, with $1.71 billion spent to fight the blazes, the U.S. Forest Service said Wednesday. The previous record of $1.67 billion, adjusted for inflation, was set in fiscal year 2002, U.S. Department of Agriculture communications director Matt Herrick said. (The Forest Service is part of […]

Al Qaeda in Yemen Call Ahmadinejad a 9/11 Truther

  Foxnews.com September 30, 2011 The latest edition of a glossy al Qaeda-run magazine is out, and it slams Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the equivalent of a Sept. 11 “truther” — someone who accuses the U.S. government of initiating the 2001 terror attacks on the United States. Inspire magazine, the product of New Mexico-born […]

Al-Qaida calls on Ahmadinejad to end 9/11 conspiracy theories

  Saeed Kamali DehghanThe Guardian September 29, 2011 Al-Qaida has sent a message to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asking him to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks. Iranian media on Wednesday reported quotes from what appears to be an article published in the latest issue of the al-Qaida English language magazine, Inspire, […]

Full speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at UN General Assembly 2011

  RT September 23, 2011 Events at the UN gathering in New York have once again been heated up by the speech of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. U.S., France and other western delegations walked out of the assembly as a sign of protest at his claims about 9/11 and NATO’s role in drug trafficking. […]

Ahmadinejad blasts U.S. over “mysterious” 9/11

  CBS News September 22, 2011 Making reference to what he called the “mysterious September 11th incident” and the “slave masters and colonial powers” of the West, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad excoriated Western member nations in an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The Iranian leader’s appearance Thursday has been met […]

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