Read more Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/21336/ayatollah-ali-khamenei.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:22:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71365/iranian-election-protester-sentenced-to-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Iranian political dissident has become the first person arrested during June's post-election protests to be sentenced to death. Muhammad-Reza Ali-Zamani is a member of the Kingom Assembly of Iran, which seeks to undo the Islamic revolution and restore the shah to power. News of the sentence, which was handed...http://www.newser.com/story/71365/iranian-election-protester-sentenced-to-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 Oct 2009 16:47:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69860/us-still-wrong-about-nukes-irans-leader.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIran's supreme leader said today that US officials know they are wrongly accusing Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. In Iran's first official reaction to the US decision to scrap a European missile intercept system to defend against threats from Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed President Barack Obama's administration...http://www.newser.com/story/69860/us-still-wrong-about-nukes-irans-leader.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 Sep 2009 15:46:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68300/iran-admits-protester-was-beaten-to-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA man arrested in the upheaval following Iran's presidential election was beaten to death in jail, Iranian media reported yesterday—offering the first official acknowledgment that a detained protester died after the disputed vote. Officials had originally said the man died of an illness, but a coroner's report said he...http://www.newser.com/story/68300/iran-admits-protester-was-beaten-to-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 01 Sep 2009 7:09:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68021/ahmadinejad-wants-opposition-leaders-tried.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJust days after Iran's supreme leader tried to dial down the nation's tensions, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ratcheted them right back up again, reports the Los Angeles Times . In a charged speech today in Tehran, the country's president for the first time called for the prosecution of opposition leaders. He didn't name...http://www.newser.com/story/68021/ahmadinejad-wants-opposition-leaders-tried.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 8:51:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67691/iran-reformist-publishes-prison-rape-account.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA testimony released by defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi details a male protester's beating and rape at a notorious prison after the disputed election. The first-person account is just one of many, Karroubi alleges, and CNN reports that he will continue to publish them on his website "if the...http://www.newser.com/story/67691/iran-reformist-publishes-prison-rape-account.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 4:30:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65971/ahmadinejad-2nd-term-blessed-iran-tv-airs-confessions.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs his adversaries faced a mass court hearing condemned as a show trial, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was formally endorsed today for a second term as president of Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei conducted the ceremony, which Mir Hossein Mousavi and other opposition figures boycotted. The endorsement came after state television screened courtroom...http://www.newser.com/story/65971/ahmadinejad-2nd-term-blessed-iran-tv-airs-confessions.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 03 Aug 2009 8:06:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65260/ahmadinejad-caves-to-hardliners-cans-iran-vp.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caved in to pressure from hardline clerics and the country's supreme leader today and allowed the resignation of his top deputy after a week-long standoff. For days, the president had resisted pressure to dismiss Esfandiar Rahim Mashai from the key post of first vice president. Mashai...http://www.newser.com/story/65260/ahmadinejad-caves-to-hardliners-cans-iran-vp.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 24 Jul 2009 17:05:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65151/mousavi-plans-new-party-for-iranian-opposition.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMir Hossein Mousavi announced today that he will form a new political group based on the broad opposition that has asserted itself since Iran’s contested elections last month, the BBC reports. Mousavi, the top reformist candidate in those elections, says the organization would give a legal political framework to the...http://www.newser.com/story/65151/mousavi-plans-new-party-for-iranian-opposition.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Jul 2009 15:05:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65017/ahmadinejad-defies-ayatollah-refuses-to-sack-vice-prez.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMahmoud Ahmadinejad has defied a direct order from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to dismiss his vice president, opening a rift between Iran's president and supreme leader, reports the Los Angeles Times . Ahmadinejad's newly chosen VP, who is his son's father-in-law, has infuriated hardliners by making favorable remarks about Israel. But Ahmadinejad...http://www.newser.com/story/65017/ahmadinejad-defies-ayatollah-refuses-to-sack-vice-prez.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Jul 2009 7:58:01 CDT