In a Foreign Ministry statement read on Tehran radio today, Iran said that Israel should be annihilated and that implicit recognition of it by the Palestine Liberation Organisation ignored the ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of the June 12 presidential election. The results were disputed, however, by Ahmadinejad's main rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who also ...

Iran's leadership on Wednesday accused the United States of instigating political unrest after last week's disputed election that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power amid accusations of ...

The day before Iran went to the polls, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the leading reform candidate, agreed to talk to TIME magazine. The interview was held in a building that Mousavi, an architect and artist, ...

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi announced the formation of a new social and political movement on his Web site Saturday, following through on a promise made last month and defying a ...

Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi is repeating his demand that Iran’s presidential vote must be annulled. A letter addressed to the country’s highest electoral authority was published on one of ...

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TEHRAN, June 28 -- -- TEHRAN, June 28 -- With the opposition visibly weakening in Iran amid a government crackdown, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters have begun to use his disputed ...

Iran's opposition leader said Saturday that a dictatorial "cult" was ruling Iran in the name of Islam - his strongest attack to date on the country's clerical leadership. Mir Hossein Mousavi also ...

Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi both ran for the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2009. They lost the election to the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who reportedly won in a ...

Mir-Hossein Mousavi's presidential race last June brought hope to all generations of Iranians but especially to our youth. We all want democracy without more bloodshed. In his speech after the vote, ...