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 ...

[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,...

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:Jafari dismissed reports of ...

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 ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 27 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Mondays deadly hostage taking in a caf in Sydney, Australia appeared on the front pages of most Iranian dailies on Tuesday. Also on the front pages were the comments ...

A political commentator says the Australian intelligence service has been behind the recent hostage taking at a caf in Sydney, Press TV reports. I would look first of all to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) of somehow being involved in this, Webster Griffin Tarpley, an American author and historian, told Press TV on Tuesday,...

Iran has vehemently condemned hostage taking at a caf in the Australias most populous city of Sydney. Resorting to inhumane methods and creating terror and panic in the name of the divine religion of Islam is not justifiable under any circumstances, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Monday. She noted that the Australian police ...

SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in Sydney for the victims of a central city cafe siege which left three people dead. Abbott laid a bouquet of white flowers at the memorial in Martin Place while his wife Margie laid a bouquet of red flowers. Abbott also wrote a message and waved at the crowd ...

[caption id="attachment_136959" align="alignright" width="189"] A injured hostage is wheeled to an ambulance after shots were fired ending a cafe siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 16. (Photo: Rob Griffith, AP)[/caption] A tense, 16-hour Australian hostage standoff ended with an eruption of gunfire ...

(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 ...

[caption id="attachment_136931" align="alignright" width="189"] Armed Australian police officers run toward Lindt Cafe on Philip St, Martin Place, in Sydney, Australia, on December 15, 2014.[/caption] More than forty Australian Muslim groups have strongly condemned the acts of gunmen who are holding an undisclosed number of people hostage at a chocolate ...

[caption id="attachment_136726" align="alignright" width="181"] Police officers position themselves at a corner near Lindt cafe in Martin Place, where hostages are being held, in central Sydney December 15, 2014. | Photo: Reuters[/caption] Dozens of people are being held, withimagesshowinga flagon the window resemblingthat of the Islamic Stateextremists....

Gunmen have reportedly taken several people hostage at a caf in the central Australian city of Sydney, making them hold a black flag, apparently belonging to a Takfiri group,against a window. According to witnesses and reports, as many as 30 people are believed to be held by at least two armed men inside the Lindt Caf in Sydneys central business district....

[caption id="attachment_136773" align="alignright" width="178"] A hostage runs toward police from a cafe in Sydney's central business district where an armed gunman is holding an undisclosed number of people hostage on Monday, December 15. She was one of five people seen fleeing the building.[/caption] Sydney (CNN)-- Five people have fled from a cafe ...