Tag Archives : Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Iran bans “Western” academic disciplines

Iran bans “Western” academic disciplines

Iran has imposed restrictions on the teaching and academic research involving 12 subject areas based on current Western thought and “incompatible with the teachings of Islam“, Iranian state radio reported Sunday. The list includes materials in the disciplines of law, philosophy, business administration, psychology and political science, [...]
Japan to build Iran’s five nuclear plants

Japan to build Iran’s five nuclear plants

Iran is willing to grant Japan the contract for the construction of five new nuclear plants, according to Iranian Parliamentary Foreign Policy and National Security Committee Chairman Alaeddin Boroujerdi. He adds that ‘Japan’s participation would be in the interest of both the Government of Japan and private companies.’ Japan is being allowed [...]
New Iran Media Agency To Be Controlled By Revolutionary Guards

New Iran Media Agency To Be Controlled By Revolutionary Guards

The most notorious and feared military institutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Revolutionary Guards have been widely known for their intense and rigid control over the Islamist nation’s internal workings. This elite special forces outfit, that works with the military and has its own say in Iranian politics is believed to be ready to [...]
IAEA Team Returns Satisfied After Iran’s Nuclear Inspection

IAEA Team Returns Satisfied After Iran’s Nuclear Inspection

A team of United Nations nuclear inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) who went into Iran to run tests and the asses the progress of the Islamist regime’s nuclear program has returned and is reportedly satisfied with their observations. The team has went for inspections to a till now secret uranium enrichment plant. As [...]
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Detained By Pakistan

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Detained By Pakistan

The Pakistani authorities today detained 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Mashkhel area , that serves as the border between Pakistan and Iran. Today’s incursion has been related with Iran’s firm resolve to track down and apprehend the perpetrators of the suicide bomb attack last week, that killed a top Revolutionary Guard commander [...]
Prisoner Abuse In Detention Centers Sparks Outrage Across Iran

Prisoner Abuse In Detention Centers Sparks Outrage Across Iran

After Iranian authorities shut down Kahrizak detention center, that was created as a makeshift prison for the detainees of the Iranian post election violence. However, even with the intervention of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to close down the facility, there has been an incredible unrest and outrage amid the citizens Iran, ever since [...]
Iranian Authorities Shut Down A Prison In The Face Of Rising Pressure

Iranian Authorities Shut Down A Prison In The Face Of Rising Pressure

The post Presidential election protest and the public unrest in Iran just doesn’t seem to die down, infact, it has been flaring out of control, even with strict and many a times, violent reprisals from the authorities. Today, the Iranian authorities announced that, they have shut down a makeshift detention facility, that was created to keep the [...]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Issues A Stern Warning To The Opposition

Iran’s Supreme Leader Issues A Stern Warning To The Opposition

In a strong and deliberate warning to the opposition parties in Iran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a stern warning, instructing all the opposition leaders not to disturb public peace. The statement is believed to have come in the wake of a referendum called for by the opposition parties, who have been protesting against the botched Presidential [...]
Iran Mourns the Loss of Lives In The Post-Election Violence

Iran Mourns the Loss of Lives In The Post-Election Violence

After several days of unrest and widespread violence throughout Iran, a report from the state media has the whole nation drowned in mourning. According the Iran’s news agencies, at last 17 people are confirmed dead in the events that took place after the botched Presidential elections in Iran. Also, Iranian authorities have arrested the daughter [...]
Iranian supreme leader to Obama: “You change, our behavior will change.”

Iranian supreme leader to Obama: “You change, our behavior will change.”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian supreme leader, has responded to the message of peace sent by US President Barack Obama. The response after the offer of dialogue via a video: The Islamic Republic of Iran will change only if the US president changes his country’s position towards Iran. “In practice we have not seen changes,” says Ayatollah Khamenei, [...]