Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, Head of Imam Khomeini (RA) Educational and Research Institute and Member of Assembly of Experts passed away at the age of 86 on Friday evening. Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi was also the former chairman of the Supreme Council of Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly and one of the lecturers of Qom Seminary....

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a message expressed condolences over the demise of Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi. In his message, Supreme Leader described demise of senior cleric as a loss for the seminary and the Islamic studies. He termed Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi as a prominent thinker, a qualified ...

Tehran, December 21, The Iran Project- As the official registration of candidates for the fifth Assembly of Experts election started nationwide on Thursday, the nomination of candidates from various political circles motivates and energizes the public to have massive presence in the upcoming election in February. While the week-long registration ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. News about high levels of air pollution in the capital dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday. News stories about who has fielded their candidacy and ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Most Iranian dailies on Sunday led on the governments reaction to allegations that it has illegally withdrawn $4.1 billion from the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund. The government ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 23 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. No single news story dominated the front pages of the Iranian newspapers on Saturday. Reformist-leaning dailies covered the comments of former President Mohammad Khatami ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Marie Donovan, Warren Marshall, and Dianna Timmerman. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online. Key Takeaway:University of Tehran hosts panel ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by the AEI Critical Threats Project's Iran research team. Representative of the Supreme Leader in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Hojjat al-Eslam Ali Saidi announced that thecrime of opposing the Supreme Leaderis no less than those ...

The Tehran Friday Prayer has repeated the warning to President Rouhani over his approach to Irans politics and culture. Ayatollah Ali Movahedi Kermani told the crowd, Officials must be careful for the penetration of seditionists; I particularly warn the science, education and teaching ministries in this regard. This has caused the dissatisfaction ...

Clerics and hardline critics poured more pressure on the Rouhani Government on Friday, telling ministers to avoid any attempt to open up Iranian society and culture. Tehran Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Movahedi Kermani was blunt, I warn both the Ministers of Culture and Scienceto avoid returning to the Reformist period in the fields of culture ...

Using the crisis in Ukraine, the Tehran Friday Prayer leaderwarned the US not to meddlein Irans internal affairs. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the head of the Guardian Council, said, The Americans should now understand that actions against nations and revolutions will not always benefit them and that they should not unseat a popular ruler to install their ...

Apparently disregarding the injunction of President Rouhani to halt threatening talk during nuclear negotiations, the Iranian militaryhas renewed its warnings of destruction for Americaif its military attacks Iran. The deputy head of armed forces, Masoud Jazayeri, said on Tuesday: All US forces in the [Middle East] region are in the military dragnet ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by the AEI Critical Threats Project's Iran research team.   Politics Head of the Imam Khomeini Teaching and Research Institute Ayatollah MohammadTaghi Mesbah Yazdi met with the National Defense University Board of Directors, criticizing President ...

The influential Iranian cleric Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi has criticized the Hassan Rouhani administration for its cultural policies and its handling of the nuclear negotiations. The Fars News Agency reports that in a meeting with senior nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi, Yazdi said: Negotiators could have informed the people of the realities of ...

[caption id="attachment_30379" align="alignright" width="300"] Irans presidential candidate Saeed Jalili (R) meets with top cleric Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi in Qom, May 28, 2013.[/caption] Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili has met with top cleric Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi during a visit to the holy city of Qom in central ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets on April 10,2013, compiled by AEICriticalThreats Project Iran AnalystWill Fulton. Politics Head of the Imam Khomeini Research Institute Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdisaidreformists do not have any chance of succeeding in the upcoming presidential elections,...