The administration has signaled to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that closing the Strait of Hormuz is a “red line” that would provoke a response, officials said.

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U.S. Warns Top Iran Leader Not to Shut Strait of Hormuz

North Korea hails Kim Jong-un as “supreme leader of the party, state and army”, a day after the elaborate funeral of his father, Kim Jong-il, in Pyongyang.

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N Korea hails Kim’s son as leader

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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Iranian president’s spiritual mentor criticizes him for his role in internal power struggle

An Iranian cleric says opposing the supreme leader amounts to a denial of God, in an apparent attempt to silence dissent aimed at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Iran dissent is ‘denial of God’