AFP - Iran has been negotiating a 25-year accord with China and the terms will be announced once a deal is struck, the foreign minister told a stormy session of parliament Sunday. "With confidence and conviction, we are negotiating a 25-year strategic accord with China," Iran's top trading partner, Mohammad Javad Zarif said. During the session,...

Financial Tribune - Informed observers and academia recall the deplorable experience of the Mehr Housing Plan that was launched by the government of former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the last two years of his two-term presidency that ended in 2013 The government recently announced a plan to construct homes for the newlyweds and people with ...

Reuters - Irans oil ministry said on Sunday that it had been receiving revenues from selling oil despite difficulties caused by U.S. sanctions, denying allegations made by former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over government mismanagement in the energy sector. Ahmadinejad said in an interview with Shargh daily newspaper on Sunday that the government ...

Reuters - A vice president and senior aide under Irans former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sentenced to six and a half years in prison on Wednesday on charges of threatening the internal and external security of the country, Fars News reported. A top press aide to Ahmadinejad, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, received a sentence of four years in the same ...

IRNA - Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi on Sunday issued two separate indictments for ex-president chief bureau Esfandiyar Rahim Mashaei and Hengame Shahidi journalist and Web Blogger. Their dossiers will be sent to court of justice in the near future, Dolatabadi said.

IRNA Former Chief of Iranian Presidential office Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei was arrested on Saturday. Mashaei was busted by security forces for further investigations on his act to torch verdict of the former Vice President for executive affairs during the 10th government Hamid Baghaei. He put on fire the verdict in reaction to Hamid Baghaeis imprisonment....

RFERL - Iran on March 13 jailed Hamid Baghai, a vice president under former hard-liner Mahmud Ahmadinejad, following his conviction for corruption, Iranian media reports said. "Police officers apprehended and transferred the convict to prison," the Tehran prosecutor's office said, cited by the Fars news agency. Baghai was sentenced in December ...

Press TV - A top Iranian state audit agency says it hasfound the countrys former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responsible for causing as much as $1.1 billion in damages to national wealth through imports of unauthorized gasoline as well as unsettled sales of hydrocarbon products to domestic clients. Irans IRNA news agency quoted a report by ...

Reuters - Iran's former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, faces sentences on seven verdicts of misusing billions of dollars in government funds while in office, the public prosecutor at Irans Supreme Audit Court said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday. In one case, dating back to Ahmadinejads second term in office between 2009 and 2013, the ...

Al-Monitor | Fereshteh Sadeghi: On May 29, Iranian law enforcement officers along with staff from the presidency confiscated a building in east Tehran used by Mahmoud Ahmadinejads bodyguards. In response, the former presidents office issued a statement putting the responsibility for any potential harm to Ahmadinejad on the administration of President ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story today was the Guardian Councils statement, in which it confirmed the result of Irans presidential election, and ...

AFP- Iran's former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today said that he won't endorse other candidates in next month's election, after he and his deputy were barred from running. "We clearly announce that we have not and will not support any candidate in the upcoming elections," he said in a letter, signed by himself and his former deputy and ...

Press TV - The Iranian Judiciary spokesman says lawsuits filed against the countrys former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his vice president, Hamid Baqaei, with regard to administrative violations are open and no final verdicts have been still given on them. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said the lawsuitswere ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Iranian newspapers today covered the remarks made by President Hassan Rouhani against the presence of military forces in Irans ...

Press TV- The Iranian Judiciary spokesman says lawsuits filed against the countrys former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his vice president, Hamid Baqaei, with regard to administrative violations are open and no final verdicts have been still given on them. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said the lawsuitswere ...

April 15,The Iran Project The following is an overview of the most high-profile figureswho have registered for Iran's12th presidential election inthe order of their registration dates. On the first day of the registration process,Seyyed Mostafa Mir-Salim, a member of the Expediency Council, signed up forthe 12th presidential election in Iran. On ...

April 16, The Iran Project Registration of presidential hopefuls starting in Iran, Iran-Russia-Syria holding tripartite talks in Moscow, Rouhani, Raisi registering to run for Irans Presidency and President unveiling Defense Ministry achievements dominated the countrys media outlets in the past week (April 10April 16).     Rouhani ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story today was the former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejads unexpected move to register to run for Irans presidency. Most reformist ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Former president Ahmadinejad registers for presidential election Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered for the upcoming presidential elections to be held on May 19.   Zarif to visit Russia on Friday: Foreign Ministry The Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi ...

IRNA Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered for the upcoming presidential elections to be held on May 19. Head of the Islamic Coalition Partys Central Council Mostafa Mirsalim also registered for the upcoming presidential election on Tuesday. In the first day of registration for the next presidential election in Iran , 126 people put ...