IRANS foremost opposition group, the Peoples Mujaheddin Organisation of Iran, has repudiated any connection to Man Haron Monis, raising more questions about the Martin Place gunmans claims of political persecution. The strenuous denial came after Refugee Review Tribunal records, obtained byThe Australianunder Freedom of Information laws, suggested ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 24 (MNA) A former colleague and classmate of Mohammad Taqi Manteqi Boroujerdi (also called Harun Munis) has accused him of Faustian pact with the Devil. Dr. Hojjatoleslam Mohsen Alviri, an Imam Sadeq University former colleague and classmate of Manteqi during 1980s, in an article published in mobahesat.com vilified him as flawed in terms ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The massacre of schoolchildren at the hands of the Pakistani Taliban was the dominant front-page story in Iranian newspapers on Wednesday. A bloody day in Peshawar, ...

[caption id="attachment_101256" align="alignright" width="221"] Ali Akbar Velayati, the president of the Center for Strategic Research of Irans Expediency Council[/caption] Tehran, Dec 17, IRNA - Head of Strategic Studies Center of the Expediency Council Ali Akbar Velayati on Wednesday criticized Australia for letting Sydney hostage taker go free....

[caption id="attachment_137419" align="alignright" width="182"] Haron Monis was known in Iran as 'Manteqi' and was wanted on fraud charges[/caption] Iran says it requested 14 years ago the extradition of Man Haron Monis - the gunman behind the Sydney siege - but Australia refused to hand him over. The head of Iran's police, Gen Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam,...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Iran-US talks satisfactory: Iranian negotiator A top Iranian nuclear negotiator has expressed satisfaction with the general atmosphere of the ongoing negotiations between representatives of the Islamic Republic and the United States over Irans nuclear program.   Iran strongly ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmayeel Ahmadi Moqaddam announced on Tuesday that Tehran had earlier warned Australia of the bad record of Haron Monis, the Sydney hostage-taker who was killed yesterday, and had demanded his extradition to Iran, but the Australian police rejected the demand. "We collected evidence and proof and ...

The man of Iranian origin behind the deadly hostage taking in Sydney, Australia was a fraudster, wanted at home. An Iranian national wanted at home, through Interpol, for fraud was behind the bloody hostage-taking that unfolded in Sydney, Australia on Monday. The hostage-taker, who was granted asylum by the Australian officials who turned a deaf ear ...

(Reuters) - An Iranian refugee known for sending hate mail to the families of Australian soldiers killed overseas and facing several charges of sexual assault is the armed man holding an unknown number of hostages in a Sydney cafe, a police source said on Tuesday. Man Haron Monis, a self-styled sheikh, remained holed up in the cafe some 15 hours after ...