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The Times of Israel

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Writer: ALI AKBAR DAREINI

May 12, 2013
11:16 pm

Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, May 11, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s cunning Rafsanjani seeks one more shot

With reformist backing, the elder statesman may yet prove to be a strong outside contender in the race to succeed Ahmadinehed

May 10, 2013
3:53 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Iran president still a force even as his era ends

Though the power elites have begun ridiculing his reign, Ahmadinejad retains political capital in cities like Birjand

May 7, 2013
10:26 am

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his ballot for the parliamentary runoff elections, in Tehran, last May (photo credit: AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

Iran’s presidential race officially opens

Hardline Guardian Council, which supervises the vote, vets applicants before allowing them to run for Ahmadinejad’s spot

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

May 4, 2013
8:43 pm

Iranian presidential hopeful, Ali Akbar Velayati, adviser to the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, talks with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, (photo credit: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Next Iranian president likely to have gentler touch

An anti-Ahmadinejad referendum is shaping up in Tehran as election date approaches

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and Brian Murphy

April 15, 2013
8:42 pm

Iran's former reformist president Mohammad Khatami attends a ceremony organized by his party, a group of pro-reform clerics, in Tehran, Iran, to announce he'll challenge hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the country's 2009 presidential elections. Many reformists are expected to sit out the 2013 elections in a silent protest over the crackdowns that have left them leaderless and demoralized. Others unwilling to boycott the election are rallying around a last-ditch call for help to Khatami, who is seen increasingly as their only credible hope at the ballot box. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)

Iran’s reformists stake long-shot hopes in Khatami

Can the country’s opposition factions shake off years of punishment and house arrest and nominate a more moderate candidate?

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and Brian Murphy

March 27, 2013
9:45 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony at the nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian/File)

Ahmadinejad hits the road to pitch his political heir

Outgoing president’s campaign to boost his controversial in-law and adviser is seen as a challenge to Iran’s ayatollahs

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and Brian Murphy

February 2, 2013
5:09 pm

Iranian scientists surround a monkey ahead of a space launch. Iran said it had successfully sent the monkey into space on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, describing the launch as another step toward Tehran's goal of a manned space flight. (photo credit: AP/AP Video)

No monkey business — Iran space official

Mohammad Ebrahimi says Pishgam, ‘pioneer’ in Persian, really did go into space, though one of the photos released wasn’t his

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

January 28, 2013
10:07 am

Iran arrests 11 journalists over ‘foreign contacts’

Development marks serious escalation of government press crackdown

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

January 23, 2013
4:35 pm

Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Tehran. (photo credit: AP/ISNA,Hamid Foroutan, File)

Iran proposes nuclear talks in Egypt

Cairo said to be receptive to hosting negotiations over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

January 16, 2013
2:45 pm

Herman Nackaerts, center, of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to the press before his flight to Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

UN experts, Iran begin talks on nuclear probe

IAEA wants to revisit Parchin site, where Islamic Republic allegedly tested components needed to develop a nuke

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

January 13, 2013
9:50 pm

Iranian men line up as they wait to vote for presidential election, while they stand in front of a picture of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at a polling station, in downtown in Tehran in 2009. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Loose lips sink Ayatollahs, Iran warns ahead of vote

Leaders in Tehran, hoping to avoid repeat of unrest from 2009 elections, tell those calling for free elections to keep quiet

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and Brian Murphy

December 4, 2012
10:04 am

Iranian state TV shows what purports to be an intact ScanEagle drone aircraft, December 4, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Al-Alam TV)

Iran claims it has captured another US drone

UAV reportedly entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf; US says none missing

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

December 2, 2012
1:33 am

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in front of a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the 23rd anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, at his mausoleum just outside Tehran, in June. (photo credit: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Flying in the face of the ayatollahs, Ahmadinejad promotes controversial confidant

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei seen as a possible successor to Iran’s president, whose term ends in 2013

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

November 28, 2012
8:10 pm

Iranian technicians work at a facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy-water nuclear reactor, outside Isfahan, in 2009. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran announces sharp increase in nuclear enrichment

Nuclear chief vows to push forward ‘with intensity’

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

November 2, 2012
4:33 pm

Iranians burn a representation of an Israeli flag during an annual state-backed rally outside the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran. (photo credit: AP)

Iranians mark 33rd anniversary of US embassy seizure

Students in Tehran chant ‘death to Israel,’ call Obama Jerusalem’s ‘loyal dog’; Revolutionary Guard commander urges Washington to stop supporting the ‘usurper Zionist regime’

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: ALI AKBAR DAREINI

Iran’s cunning Rafsanjani seeks one more shot

With reformist backing, the elder statesman may yet prove to be a strong outside contender in the race to succeed Ahmadinehed

Iran president still a force even as his era ends

Though the power elites have begun ridiculing his reign, Ahmadinejad retains political capital in cities like Birjand

Iran’s presidential race officially opens

Hardline Guardian Council, which supervises the vote, vets applicants before allowing them to run for Ahmadinejad’s spot

Next Iranian president likely to have gentler touch

An anti-Ahmadinejad referendum is shaping up in Tehran as election date approaches

Iran’s reformists stake long-shot hopes in Khatami

Can the country’s opposition factions shake off years of punishment and house arrest and nominate a more moderate candidate?

Ahmadinejad hits the road to pitch his political heir

Outgoing president’s campaign to boost his controversial in-law and adviser is seen as a challenge to Iran’s ayatollahs

No monkey business — Iran space official

Mohammad Ebrahimi says Pishgam, ‘pioneer’ in Persian, really did go into space, though one of the photos released wasn’t his

Iran arrests 11 journalists over ‘foreign contacts’

Development marks serious escalation of government press crackdown

Iran proposes nuclear talks in Egypt

Cairo said to be receptive to hosting negotiations over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions

UN experts, Iran begin talks on nuclear probe

IAEA wants to revisit Parchin site, where Islamic Republic allegedly tested components needed to develop a nuke

Loose lips sink Ayatollahs, Iran warns ahead of vote

Leaders in Tehran, hoping to avoid repeat of unrest from 2009 elections, tell those calling for free elections to keep quiet

Iran claims it has captured another US drone

UAV reportedly entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf; US says none missing

Flying in the face of the ayatollahs, Ahmadinejad promotes controversial confidant

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei seen as a possible successor to Iran’s president, whose term ends in 2013

Iran announces sharp increase in nuclear enrichment

Nuclear chief vows to push forward ‘with intensity’

Iranians mark 33rd anniversary of US embassy seizure

Students in Tehran chant ‘death to Israel,’ call Obama Jerusalem’s ‘loyal dog’; Revolutionary Guard commander urges Washington to stop supporting the ‘usurper Zionist regime’

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