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 ...

By Bloomberg Irans judiciary hasnt agreed to a request by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit a Tehran prison where his aide is detained, saying the move wouldnt be appropriate, the state-runMehrnews agency reported. Given thespecial (SPEC)situation were in, the nations priorities, in particular economic issues, we need to focus our concerns ...

By Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top press adviser was taken into custody to begin serving a six-month jail sentence after being convicted of publishing material deemed insulting to the country's supreme leader. Ali Akbar Javanfekr, who is also the head of the state-run IRNA news agency, is one ...

Iran's Elections Headquarters has announced that six hopefuls who had signed up for the 11th presidential vote have pulled out of the race so far. First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi and Agricultural Jihad Minister Sadeq Khalilian are among the half a dozen candidates who have officially withdrawn their bids for presidency, said Seyyed Solat ...

Former advisor to the Iranian president Ali Akbar Javanfekr has withdrawn his bid for presidency in favor of the presidents former chief of staff. In a statement on Monday, Javanfekr, who is the former top media aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the former CEO of IRNA, announced that he made the decision after consultations with the ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian election authorities say several new high-profile politicians including hardliners, reformists, and allies of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have registered for the June 14 presidential elections. Tehran mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Ahmadinejad's adviser Ali Akbar Javanfekr and the president's elder brother, ...

AFP -A top aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has been jailed since September was replaced on Monday as the head of Iran's state Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), it and other media reported. Ali Akbar Javanfekr, who is being held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, was succeeded by another Ahmadinejad advisor, Majid Omidi Shahraki, who led ...

TEHRAN Ali Akbar Javanfekr, a senior aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, returned to jail on Monday after a four-day parole during which he underwent medical treatment, the ISNA news agency reported. "He went back to prison this morning," the agency quoted Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, Tehran's prosecutor, as saying. Javanfekr was admitted ...

Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited his press adviser, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, in a Tehran hospital following his temporary release from jail last week. Javanfekr, who is serving a six-months prison sentence over the publication of controversial material, is receiving treatment for heart problems at the capitals Atieh hospital, according to reports ...

Ali Akbar Javanfekris a seniorIranianpolitician and the presidential advisor for press affairs and as of 19 December 2010, He was Managing-Director ofIRNAfrom 1 November 2010until being sentenced to six-monthin prison on charges of "publishing materials contrary to Islamic norms," 20 November 2011. Evin Prison authorities have allowed the former press ...

Irannews headlines on Thursday include releasing Ahmadinejad's top aid from prison, Iran bypassing sanctions to export its fuel oil, Russia expressing hope for next month's nuke talks, Iran constructing world's tallest dam,An Iranian technology company indicting on embargo violations and docking Russian warship in Iran.   Top aide to Iran's ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian newspaper says prison authorities have allowed the former press adviser of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to leave jail for medical treatment. Thursday's report by the state-owned IRAN daily says Ali Akbar Javanfekr will return to Tehran's Evin Prison after a four-day leave to treat an undisclosed medical problem. This ...

DUBAI: A top aide to Iran's president was temporarily freed from prison on Wednesday, Iranian media said, in the latest twist in a case seen as reflecting the waning influence ofMahmoud Ahmadinejadin the country's factionalised politics. Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Ahmadinejad's press adviser and head of the state news agency IRNA, was sent to Tehran's Evin ...

By Trend Iranian president's press advisor and director of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) Ali Akbar Javanfekr has been vindicated from accusations, yet he still remains in the Evin prison, ISNA reported. Javanfekr's lawyer Qahraman Shojae confirmed the information on his vindication, however it is yet unknown when Javanfekr will be released ...

By Trend Iranian president expressed his wish to visit the prison after Javanfekr's imprisonment. "I am accused of protecting the offenders, yet I have always said that the verdict against Javanfekr was not fair. However, the trial is now over, and he has taken his punishment," the president wrote in his letter. Javanfekr was charged with ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Iran's judicial authorities have again denied a request by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Evin prison where his top media advisor is serving time, Iranian media reported on Wednesday, in another sign the president's power is on the wane. Ahmadinejad's request was seen as linked to the detention of his press advisor ...

By The Guardian Iranian president tells head of judicial system it is his constitutional right to inspect prison where media adviser is held. Iran's president,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has lambasted the country's judiciary for not allowing him to visit Tehran's Evin prison, where his media adviser is currently held behind bars. Ahmadinejad on Monday ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Iran's judiciary of unconstitutional conduct on Monday for barring him from a visit to Evin prison where a top aide is jailed, a row that provided another sign of his waning power in his final year in office. Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Ahmadinejad's press adviser and head of the state news ...

Ahmadinejad has formally requested head of Judiciary to make necessary arrangements for his visit to Evin prison,following Judicial Authorities' disagreement with the President's visit to the prison, In his letter to Iranian Judiciary ChiefAyatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked him to command arrangements for his ...

By The Guardian President says plummeting value of rial is fault of enemies abroad and at home, not his government's economic policies Iran's beleaguered president,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has blamed the plummeting value of the national currency on a "psychological war" perpetrated by enemies abroad and opponents at home. Speaking as the rial ...