Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct Iran’s Assembly of Experts which is responsible for electing and overseeing the work of Iran’s supreme leader has chosen hard-liner Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati as its leader. The 88-member Assembly of Experts elected Jannati with 51 votes on May 24, according to media reports. Jannati is a critic of President Hassan […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (center) receives a copy of an ancient manuscript of the Koran from Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) during their November 23 meeting in Tehran. It may not be the original version of the first handwritten edition of the Koran, dating […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Judgement Day came twice this month in Saudi Arabia and the leader of one of two warring factions of Islam wants the world to know that the other faction is responsible. Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a Shi’ite, on Sept. 27 demanded that Shia Saudi Arabia apologize for the stampede near […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Iran’s supreme leader has long envisioned all-out war with Israel and the United States. Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar asserted that Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei concluded that Teheran would make war on Israel and the United States. Aznar recalled a meeting with Khamenei in 2000 in which […]
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration warned Iran’s supreme political-religious authority closing the Strait of Hormuz would trigger a U.S. response, U.S. officials said. The administration, using a secret communications channel officials would not describe, warned Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that closing the narrow, strategically important strait between the Gulf of Oman and the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi The latest Saudi official assassination conspiracy implicating the Islamic Republic of Iran brings chills to Iranian nationalists as it is a reminder of many examples in history whereby in the scheme of things a small trigger causes global warfare and carnage. Accusations against the Islamists in control of Iran […]