Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

A student challenges Iran's supreme leader with taboo-breaking criticism at public speech An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face. Mahmoud Vahidnia has received ...

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that Iran will reject any dialogue if its outcome is pre-determined by Washington, raising the possibility a mooted nuclear fuel deal may be derailed. Khamenei's comments came as world powers turned up the heat ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police warned the opposition on Tuesday to avoid using the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover in Tehran to revive protests against the clerical establishment, the official IRNA news agency reported. Opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi ...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday Tehran will reject any dialogue if its result is pre-determined by Washington, raising the possibility a mooted nuclear fuel deal may be derailed. "We do not want any negotiation, the result of which is ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards, who helped quell protests after the June election, warned the opposition on Monday not to use anti-U.S. rallies this week to stage new demonstrations. Moderate opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi appeared to urge his supporters on Saturday ...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia warned Monday against any attempts to politicize the annual haj pilgrimage, saying they would threaten the safety of more than two million Muslims expected to attend the ritual. The warning followed remarks by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's top authority said on Monday the perpetrators of recent attacks in the region aimed to sow discord among Muslims and were linked to foreign countries. "Bloody acts in some Islamic countries, including Iraq, Pakistan and some parts of ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's military accused the United States and Israel of terrorism as it held a funeral on Tuesday for high-ranking commanders killed in the deadliest attack in the Islamic Republic since the 1980s. Throngs of uniformed mourners carried the flag-draped ...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday told the visiting Senegalese president whose nation heads the world's largest Islamic body to do more for Palestinians, his website reported. "The aim of creating the Organisation of the Islamic Conference is to follow ...

Iran's police chief said on Wednesday that an investigation had found no evidence that election protesters detained in a now closed detention centre had been raped as alleged by opposition groups. "It has been proved that there was no rape in Kahrizak," ...