Free Beacon- Two high-level Iranian government backers, including a former Islamic Republic official and another accused of lobbying on Tehrans behalf, were hosted at the Obama White House for more than 30 meetings with top officials atkey junctures in the former administrations contested diplomacy with Iran, according to White House visitor logs that ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Monday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Abrar: 1.No visa needed for Iranian visitors to Georgia 2.Leader hosts mourning ceremony for Hazrat Zahra 3.Rouhani frowns on myopic commentators who overlook ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 27 (Shana) First Vice President Ishaq Jahangiri said if Iran followed the foreign policy of past years, instead of the current way of development, it could no longer export a single barrel of oil today. Speaking at a meeting to mark the Statistics and Planning Day, he said, Those behind the sanctions were after depicting a violent ...

Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that he does not have any plan for or any interest in running for elected office, although calls on him and his supporters to stand are getting louder. Denouncing as baseless media reports about his probable candidacy, Ahmadinejad said, If I intended to do so, I would explicitly announce it to the public....

It came after the oil minister confirmed reports that a derrick Iran had purchased when the previous government was in office had disappeared without a trace. By IFP

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 14 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. There was no single story dominating the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday. Formation of a new party by the inner circle of Ahmadinejad which was immediately ...

Tehran, June 9, IRNA Government spokesman Mohammad Baquer Nobakht said on Tuesday that judiciary is investigating embezzlement by former government. On the arrest of former vice-president for executive affairs Hamidreza Baqaee, he said the incumbent government reported to the Judiciary the extensive financial violations perpetrated by the former ...

A Vice-President under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been arrested and detained in Iran, amid reports and the censorship of a leading newspaper for publishing the claims that he stole billions of dollars. Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei said on Monday that Hamid Baghaei, the Vice President for Executive Affairs from 2011 to 2013, has ...

Tehran, June 8, IRNA Hamid Baqaei, the vice-president for executive affairs under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was detained on Monday afternoon, according to Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei. Mohseni Ejei announced the news speaking at a press conference. He refrained to elaborate on the details. Before appointment as ...

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has in an interview with Etemaad daily shown reaction to a controversial remark by the former government on sanctions. "How did you feel when you heard [the former president say] "Issue resolutions until you are blue in the face?" the daily asked. "Certainly I did not favor such rhetoric. Neither back then ...

Tehran, May 26, The Iran Project Former Iranian president office denied Zarifs remarks, saying Ahamdinejad government did not allow IAEA agents to interview nuclear scientists, Fars news Agency reported on Tuesday. Former Iranian president office issued a statement following Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifs remark regarding former ...

Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, building his campaign for increased influence within the regime, has found a culprit for Irans economic problems former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rafsanjani was in the political wilderness after he defended the right of Iranians to protest the disputed 2009 Presidential election. However, he has rebuilt ...

[caption id="attachment_40126" align="alignright" width="177"] Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad[/caption] A three-story building in a quiet one-way alley in northern Tehran is the headquarters of an unlikely campaign that opposes both the administration of President Hassan Rouhani and many of the Islamic Republic's establishment figures....

Khorramabad, Feb 2, IRNA - First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said on Monday that that former government that had pledged to fight fraud and corruption in the country has proved to be the most corrupted government throughout history. In the former government, people expected their problems to be resolved through proper planning but the then government ...

An analytical look at widespread violation of rules by executive officials during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Complicity of former First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi in massive corruption is simply a single page in a chapter of failures to comply with rules and regulations by a government whose leader claimed he was at the helm of ...

TEHRAN Dec 12 (Shana)--Dropping oil prices and the ensuing challenges for our country stimulated us to conduct an interview with Mahmoud Jaamsaz, economist. What follows is an exclusive excerpt from the interview. Shana: What is your proposal for setting oil price in the annual budget in a way that its fluctuations will not hurt the economy? -Setting ...

President Rouhani gave a pessimistic report on Friday on the nuclear talks between Iran and the 5+1 Powers, saying there had been little progress towards the comprehensive agreement sought by a November 24 deadline. The progress realized thus farhas not been significant, Rouhani said at a press conference at the conclusion of his 5-day trip to New ...

Tehran, Sept 27, IRNA Cash subsidy payments expected to be done in a target oriented manner failed due to the incompetence of the 10th government while the 11th government despite facing shortage of financial resources is still responsive to such an unfair expectation. When the target-oriented subsidies were first launched, its subsequent revenues ...

Irans Minister of Oil has accused the former administration of abuse of power and the promotion of corruption. He added that under the former administrations watch, Babak Zanjani, the Iranian tycoon now in custody on embezzlement charges, managed to receive 2.7 billion dollars thought a fake bank with the collaboration of a number of ministers and ...