AP The trial has begun for Iranian President Hassan Rouhanis brother and close confidante, who faces corruption allegations brought by the countrys judiciary. The semi-official ISNA news agency reported that Hossein Fereidoun, who was on the team that negotiated Irans 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, went on trial Tuesday with four other ...

Iranian Diplomacy- Soon after President Hassan Rouhani took office in 2013, his omnipresent special aide, his brother Hossein Fereydoun, was given an extra seat in the nuclear talks beside Mohammad Javad Zarif and his team of negotiators in September 2013. His task then was to directly report details of the talks on the phone to his older President ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday, July 18, and picked headlines from 15 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Newspapers today covered the reports on President Hassan Rouhanis brother and top aide Hossein Fereydoun, who was arrested ...

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IRNA - President Hassan Rouhanis brother Hossein Fereydoun was transferred to hospital on Monday after appearing at court in the capital city Tehran. Speaking to IRNA, Director of the Public Relations Department of the Tehran Emergency Center Hassan Abbasi said the Presidents brother encountered a health problem and was transferred to a private ...

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IFP- Iranian President Hassan Rouhanis brother Hossein Fereydoun has been arrested after failing to post the bail set for him, the Judiciary spokesman says. Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, the Spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary, declared in his weekly press conference on Sunday that Fereydoun, the presidents brother and top aide, was sent to prison ...

The heads of Irans trio of government branches, President Hassan Rouhani, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, and Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani, attended a judiciary conference in Tehran on Tuesday, June 28. The remarks made by the three politicians, particularly those of President Rouhani, were widely covered by all newspapers on Wednesday. Newspapers,...

VIENNA (Tasnim) - Iran's foreign minister and lead negotiator, Mohammad Javad Zarif, returned to Vienna on Tuesday after a brief pause to proceed with talks over a lasting agreement on Tehrans nuclear energy program. Two Iranian officials accompany him in the trip. Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi and Hossein ...

Vienna, June 29, IRNA Presidents special aide, Hossein Fereydoun, and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali-Akbar Salehi, will join the Iranian nuclear negotiation team here. Salehi and Fereydoun will join Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif in his visit to Vienna on Tuesday. Zarif had returned to Tehran on Monday on a pre-...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is in the Swiss city of Lausanne for talks over Irans nuclear program, met with the Iranian delegation to express his condolences over the demise of President Hassan Rouhanis mother. Sekineh Payvandi, who passed away on Friday at the age of 90 after months of illness, had been in hospital ...

[caption id="attachment_144289" align="alignright" width="197"] Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi[/caption] Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi told reporters on Friday, The negotiations were progressing well and the next round gets underway next week in a Swiss city. When asked about ...

[caption id="attachment_152215" align="alignright" width="180"] Iran's FM Zarif & president Rouhani's brother and special aide Hossein Fereidoun arrive in Geneva, Switzerland.[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif along with the country's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi and President Rouhani's brother and special ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Just days after Hasan Rouhani's election victory in Iran, his top advisers and allies gathered for a closed-door strategy session at a think tank run by the new president. The group, lugging spread sheets, notes and policy papers, also carried something new into the mix - an array of degrees from Western universities. Soon after ...