Iran in the World Press

EU policy in jeopardy

Financial Times: The election of a new hardline president in Tehran is likely to complicate the Islamic Republic's engagement with the European Union just...

Hardline at home and abroad

The Guardian: How much power will the new president have?Mr Ahmadinejad is subordinate to supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Under the Islamic republic's system...

Ali Shah’s last stand

The Guardian: Ali Shah is the disrespectful nickname Iranians have in recent years bestowed on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supreme religious leader of the Islamic...

Wing and a prayer

The Guardian - Leader Article: Conservatives and moderates in the Iranian political system, the supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, has said, are like...

Misreading Iran’s election

Washington Times - Editorial: Rarely has more misinformation been written or stated on one subject than is the case with Friday's runoff election in...

Discontents and dangers

The Times - Leading Article: Elections in Iran are windows through which the regime’s internal struggles can be glimpsed; they are not open democratic...

No chance for now for Iran-US rapprochement: analysts

AFP: After eight years of often conciliatory diplomacy and an presidential election where resuming ties with the United States was floated as a real...

Bitter Rafsanjani faces wilderness after gamble backfires

AFP: Having spent a quarter of a century at the nexus of Iran's theocracy, a bitter Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani faces an uncertain future after...

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U.S. Treasury Targets Khamenei-Linked Financial Network

The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Ali Ansari, an individual linked to a network of exchange houses and...

Sharp Increase in Bread Prices in Iran

For years in Iran, it was commonly said that even if people could no longer afford meat, chicken, dairy...

U.S. Officials Call for Iran’s Regime to Publicly Declare an End to Attacks on Ships in Strait of Hormuz

Reuters reported that senior U.S. officials said on Friday, July 10, that Washington has asked Iran's regime to formally...

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Amnesty International Challenges Silence Over the Iranian Regime’s Crimes

The bloody crackdown on the January protests in Iran...

U.S. Officials Call for Iran’s Regime to Publicly Declare an End to Attacks on Ships in Strait of Hormuz

Reuters reported that senior U.S. officials said on Friday,...

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