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TopicAyatollah Khamenei

Topic: Ayatollah Khamenei

Iran’s Supreme Leader concedes thousands killed in unrest, some of them ‘brutally & inhumanely’

Washington: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday said “several thousand people” died in this month’s anti-government demonstrations, his first acknowledgment of the...

Iran embassy in India dismisses fake X handle’s claim Kashmir is in Pakistan, ‘attempt’ to damage ties

New Delhi: After a tweet from an account purporting to represent Iran said that Kashmir belongs to Pakistan and Taiwan to China, the Iranian...

Iran’s real fantasy is to take over Muslim world. Palestine is just a façade

Since 1979, Iran has used the Palestinian issue as a façade for its regional agenda to oppose American diplomacy, the Western world, and the existence of Israel.

Iran and its allies will not back down from Israel, says Ayatollah Khamenei in rare appearance

Leading Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran’s supreme leader said his country’s missile attacks on Israel earlier this week were ‘legal and legitimate’.

Khamenei trivialising Gaza suffering by comparing it to India. He must look in his own backyard

There is no doubt that Khamenei can score political points with certain Muslim communities in the short term through such misleading tweets, a game he is not a newcomer to.

Protests rage across Iran despite crackdown, rights group reports 19 minors killed

Demonstrations began on 17 Sept at Mahsa Amini's funeral in Saqez, with protesters calling for the downfall of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Authorities deny the use of live bullets.

Iran’s bid to integrate with global economy coming to an end

Iran threatened to withdraw from its last commitments to the 2015 deal that limited its nuclear program in exchange for lifting of international sanctions.

Iran won’t be satisfied by its missile attacks on US air bases in Iraq

The fact that no Americans were killed in the missile attacks will do little to quench the bloodlust of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei over Gen Soleimani's assassination.

Iran likely to increase nuclear capacity & Jordanian PM resigns over economic protest

Saudi-led Yemeni coalition seeks US help as last resort, and no one is pleased with China's guts in the disputed waters of the South China Sea

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.