https://www.wionews.com/world/exclusive-pakistan-will-face-consequences… Story highlights Speaking to WION’s Executive Editor Palki Sharma, Ahmadinejad stressed that the handing over of power to Taliban is part of a ‘satanic plot’ by the western powers
Iran is a terrible place, at least its government is. That view is dominant in the West, and Iranians living in the West are in the forefront of those promoting it. One of those is Lisa Daftari, the daughter of Iranian immigrants or more properly Iranian exiles. Last month she sat down with her fellow American Candace Owens to excoriate her ancestral home.
Despite the seemingly escalating risks of war, last week also produced an unexpected drift toward the mahogany table. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News There was no shortage of alarming incidents in and around the Persian Gulf last week.…Read more →
(MEMO) — Some 2,100 Iranian soldiers have been killed in Syria and Iraq over the past seven years, the first official statistic on military losses in the conflict has revealed, according to the New Khalij. The figure was announced at a tree planting ceremony in Tehran yesterday, in which a seeding tree was sowed for each soldier who […]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been banned from running for president again, and was arrested for “inciting unrest against the government" because he accused his successor of misappropriating public funds. Ahmadinejad said that Iran suffers from mismanagement, not lack of economic resources. There is no doubt that he was right, because theocratic and collectivist regimes always suffer from mismanagement, not lack of resources. [...]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — With an estimated 1,000 people arrested over the course of a little over a week in protests in Iran, the most high profile may ultimately be the most surprising, with reports former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been jailed for “incitement.”
On the 19th of May, Iranians will go to the polls to vote for their next President.
The contest is now more or less of a two horse race as the conservative former mayor of Tehran, Mohammad-Baghar Ghalibaf has just dropped out of the race. A political veteran who came second in the 2013 Presidential election, Mohammad-Baghar Ghalibaf has decided to endorse the somewhat less well known but even more conservative candidate Ebrahim Raisi.
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered to run in this year’s election to be held on the 19th of May.
He has declared his candidacy in spite of an admonition from Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei who has said that Ahmadinejad’s candidacy would ‘polarise’ Iran.
Ahmadinejad is considered a hardliner both on domestic and foreign policy issues.
Image: (L) Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) ( Secretary of State John Kerry. (FLICKR}
By Kourosh Ziabari • January 24, 2016
The “diplomatic coup” triggered by Iran and the US has given rise to a new era in Tehran’s relations with the international community.
