TEHRAN, Iran — The spiritual mentor of Iran’s president has harshly criticized him for his role in an internal power struggle that has split the country’s hard-liners, indicating that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s own support base is badly fraying. The cleric is the latest high-profile figure to censure Ahmadinejad, who set off the spiraling political confrontation last month by firing the intelligence minister without consulting the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who quickly reinstated him in a public slap to the president. Read full article > >

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TEHRAN – Apparently bowing to unprecedented pressure from Iran’s clerical establishment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed an intelligence minister he had ousted in April back into his cabinet meeting on Sunday. While Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had publicly reinstated intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi following his dismissal by Ahmadinejad, it took more than three weeks for the two men to officially meet in a cabinet session. Following the supreme leader’s decision, Ahmadinejad did not go to his office for eight days. He returned to work a week ago, publicly pledging his allegiance to Khamenei and denying that a rift had developed between the two men. But when the cabinet met on Wednesday, the president and Moslehi apparently avoided being in the same room, Web sites reported, citing “busy schedules” as their reason for not meeting. Read full article > >

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President Ahmadinejad of Iran ends a boycott of his official duties, reports say, amid an apparent rift with supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the West for unrest bubbling throughout the Middle East and North Africa in a speech Monday on Iran’s National Army Day.

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Demonstrations had quieted down in Iran since those that flared up at the funeral of a young student who was killed in clashes with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime last month. But on Tuesday, opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi’s website claimed that…

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday urged Middle East leaders to listen to the voices of citizens who have taken to the streets in masses to demand a change in government.

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says recent opposition protests in Iranian cities are “going nowhere” and vows to punish their organisers.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday appointed Fereydoun Abbas — who survived an assassination attempt late last year — as the new head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, the state-run Press TV reported.

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From his year-end review : Iran continued to develop nuclear weapons, all the while insisting that they would be used only for peaceful scientific research, such as — to quote President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — “seeing what happens when you drop one on Israel.”

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In Washington and European capitals, top New Year priorities on Iran may be Tehran’s nuclear program, and the next round of talks in Istanbul in late January. But for Iran’s leadership, 2011 promises to be a year of significant domestic challenges, as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presides over a precipitous series of subsidy cuts, imposed on an inefficient economy already under strain from a host of sanctions. read more

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A 33-year-old car owned by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that has been put up for auction reportedly attracts an offer of $1m (£640,000).

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to sell his 33-year-old car to raise money for a charity that funds housing projects for young people.

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