http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/khamenei/ en-us Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:56:12 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067173/posts Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted Sunday as praising Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for "standing up to" the West in a dispute over the country's nuclear program, amid growing domestic criticism of the president's management. Khamenei offered unusually glowing praise of Ahmadinejad, who upon his election in 2005 sparked a confrontation with the West by resuming uranium enrichment and also prompted worldwide condemnation for denouncing Israel. The country's spiritual leader has rarely, if ever, expressed such support for any other Iranian politician. Jerusalem Post/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067173/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:56:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045252/posts Iran’s Other Leader by: Rachel Paulk, July 14, 2008 As Iran continues to develop its nuclear facilities and to demonstrate its missile capabilities, foreign policy analysts are scrambling to determine the best American response to the rogue nation’s militaristic threats. None seem to agree on how to best approach the hostile Islamic state because its leaders prove difficult to predict on the escalating nuclear crisis. Karim Sadjadpour, author of the report “Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran’s Most Powerful Leader,” stated in a lecture at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045252/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:58:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037973/posts Iran's Khamenei names new security council representative Jun 28, 2008 NICOSIA (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday named top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as his representative on the national security council, of which Jalili is already secretary, state media reported. Jalili succeeds former nuclear chief and current parliament speaker Ali Larijani as Khamenei's representative. "You are expected to be able to help the power and independence of the Islamic system by active participation and constant exchange of views with me," Khamenei said in a letter to Jalili carried by the state broadcaster. Jalili, who is a... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037973/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:15:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022331/posts Members of the eighth Majlis elected Ali Larijani, representative of the holy city of Qom, as the provisional speaker of the Iranian parliament on Wednesday. The 8th Majlis was inaugurated on Tuesday with a message of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei. Out of a total of 263 votes, Larijani, the single candidate for the post, won 232 ballots. Larijani had previously served as Iran's top nuclear negotiator. Majlis provisional presiding board would also be elected today. The board would continue its work until credentials of all MPs are confirmed by the legislative body. Islamic Republic News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022331/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 06:57:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992757/posts Khamenei is Shooting Craps... Michael Ledeen March 27, 2008 The Shi’ites are killing one another all over Iraq, most notably in Basra. Jules Crittendon, as always, has a fine roundup of the (mis)coverage from the MSM, delivers all the right insults (I particularly enjoyed watching the back of his hand slap the unctious Tony Cordesman) and asks all the right questions. What kicked this off? Who’s fighting whom? Who’s gonna win? Is it good for us or bad for us? The best way to understand these events is to take one little step back, and note that our people are... Pajamasmedia.com/Ledeen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992757/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:22:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989207/posts The Circus Is in Tehran Search for meaning in non-elections. March 20, 2008 By Michael Ledeen There were no elections in Iran last Friday, whatever you may read. The “turnout” was shockingly low, even by past standards, as is demonstrated by the obvious panic in Tehran, where the mullahs kept the polls open an extra five hours. This was not, as they said, to make sure the patriotic citizens of the capital could drop their ballots in the box, but because they had to bus the reluctant faithful and the subservient government employees to the election offices, so as to... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989207/posts#comment Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:18:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980445/posts British executive Robert Mills says his express delivery firm is enjoying explosive growth in Iran, despite tightening international sanctions on the Islamic Republic over its disputed nuclear plans. With a longstanding U.S. embargo barring two key rivals from entering the world's fourth-largest crude producer, DHL Express claims a share of at least 60 percent of what Mills called one of the region's fastest-growing markets for the sector. Reuters via International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980445/posts#comment Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:10:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978017/posts Geopolitics: Americans preoccupied with the presidential campaign can't be blamed for not listening too closely to Iran these days. But it's time to lend an ear. The rhetoric over there is getting a bit scary.It's a sad historical fact that, when totalitarian or absolutist regimes are about to do something horrific, they often ratchet up their rhetoric. That precisely is what Iran's mullahs and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are doing right now. Presented with stunning and incontrovertible evidence — contrary to the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate's faulty findings last November — that Iran continues to develop a nuclear weapon, Iran's leaders... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978017/posts#comment Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:33:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972060/posts Iran says God protects nuclear program By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday that God would punish Iranians if they do not support the country's disputed nuclear program, state radio reported. "The Iranian people openly announce that they will defend their rights... God will reprimand them if they do not do so," state radio quoted Khamenei as saying. The 68-year-old ayatollah, who has final say on all state matters, said Washington's claim that Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon is false. The Iranian government has long insisted its... Yahoo/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972060/posts#comment Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:59:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971957/posts Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday that God would punish Iranians if they did not support the country's disputed nuclear program, state radio reported. "The Iranian people openly announce that they will defend their rights... God will reprimand them if they do not do so," state radio quoted Khamenei as saying. The 68-year-old ayatollah, who has the final say on all state matters, said Washington's claim that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon was false. The Iranian government has long insisted its nuclear activities are only for peaceful generation of fuel. "They know that Iran is... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971957/posts#comment Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:54:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960668/posts Kayhan Editor Close To Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei: 'America and Its European Supporters Must Know... That the Price of Supporting [Israel] Will Cost Them the Property and Lives of Their Citizens... If the Heads of Some Islamic States Prevent the Muslim Peoples from Attacking the Zionists... They Can Be Toppled' In a January 26 op-ed in the Iranian daily Kayhan, the paper's editor, Hossein Shariatmadari, who is close to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, called on Muslims to unite in a retaliatory attack on American, European, and Israeli "sensitive centers" because of "the war crimes that these countries are committing... MEMRI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960668/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:38:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957066/posts TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's supreme leader Monday reversed a decision by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and ordered him to implement a law supplying natural gas to remote villages amid rising dissatisfaction with the president's performance. The move by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a major rebuke to the hardline president, whose popularity has plummeted amid rising food prices and deaths due to gas cuts during a particularly harsh winter. In response to a request by the conservative-dominated parliament, Khamenei ordered the president to implement a law spending $1 billion from the Currency Reserve Fund to supply gas to villages after he balked... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957066/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:24:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948645/posts TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the country would humiliate any possible attacker over its controversial nuclear programme. "This peace-loving nation would humiliate any aggressor, regardless of its size and level so that it won't even think of aggression again," Khamenei was quoted as saying by state media during a visit to the central city of Yazd. The United States has not ruled out military action against Iran over its nuclear programme, which it suspects could be diverted to building atomic weapons. Tehran insists however that the programme is aimed solely at generating... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948645/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jan 2008 08:27:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948011/posts Iran has no interest in US ties now: Khamenei by Stuart Williams Jan 3, 2007 Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that Iran sees "no benefit" in resuming ties with the United States at the moment but does not rule out a resumption of relations in the future. In his most significant speech on foreign policy in several months, Khamenei also vowed that Iran would not halt sensitive work on its controversial nuclear programme as demanded by the West. "Cutting ties with the United States is one of our basic policies. We have never said that they will... Yahoo/AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948011/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2008 02:02:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945902/posts Warns of 'Enemy Plots' Ahead of Iran Vote December 29, 2007 AFP/ Yahoo News! TEHRAN -- Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday urged Iranians to be alert against enemy plots ahead of legislative elections next March, in statements broadcast on state television. "The Iranian nation has to be alert" ahead of the polls, Khamenei told visitors in remarks made on the occasion of the Eid al-Qadir feast which commemorates the Prophet Mohammed's last sermon. Khamenei described the March elections as a major test of wills for the Iranian people. "The enemy may benefit from any negligence and hurt... YahooNews/AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945902/posts#comment Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:59:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941740/posts The Ayatollah watching over Ahmadinejad Article Last Updated: 12/16/2007 WHEN most Americans think of Iran, they think of its incendiary president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Since his election in 2005, Ahmadinejad gleefully has shocked the world with his defiance over Iran's nuclear programs, ravings about a Shiite messiah, jeremiads against Israel and denial that the Holocaust occurred. But while Ahmadinejad is the regime's face, he's not its boss. Since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death in 1989, the real power in Tehran has belonged to the country's supreme leader and top cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad makes all the noise, but Khamenei holds the... Inside Bay Area http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941740/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:10:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925405/posts Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is coming under increasing pressure to rein in Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the president, over the radical stance he has taken on the country’s nuclear programme, analysts said on Tuesday. The pressure is coming from Iran’s reformists and conservative pragmatists who have intensified their warnings about the threat they believe Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s intransigence over the nuclear programme poses to national security. The escalation of tensions at the top of the regime was exposed on Monday in public speeches given by both Mr Ahmadi-Nejad and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an influential former president. The president called critics of... Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925405/posts#comment Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:33:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914977/posts Ali Larijani's resignation is a complete surprise, and very significant. As Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, he has been a key figure in attempts to broker a compromise with the West over Iran's nuclear programme. His departure could be the start of a major shift in policy. It is an open secret in Tehran that Mr Larijani has had big differences with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over how to proceed over the nuclear programme. Like almost everyone in Iran, Mr Larijani supports the programme. He is certainly no "liberal", even in Iranian terms. He stood for president at the last election, a... al-BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914977/posts#comment Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:20:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902105/posts U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are being monitored by Iran using satellites and other technology and are well within range of Iranian missiles, a top Iranian military official said. "The Americans should realize that the 200,000 troops they have deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan are in Iran’s firing range,” Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, an advisor to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in remarks published by Iranian newspapers Monday. Speaking on the 27th anniversary of the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War, Safavi, the former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, said Iran was now in a strong... FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902105/posts#comment Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:01:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900820/posts TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Saturday warned the West of the "serious consequences" of launching any attack against the Islamic republic after showing off a new longer-range missile in public for the first time. "Military aggression against Iran is no longer a case of 'you hit and you run away,'" said supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "Anyone who launches an aggression will seriously suffer the consequences of this aggression. afp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900820/posts#comment Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:02:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897215/posts TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday that US President George W Bush had been defeated in his Middle East plans and would one day stand trial for "atrocities" committed in Iraq. "Bush will one day be tried in court, just like deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, for his involvement in the Iraq tragedy. "A day will come that the current US president and officials will be tried in an international supreme court for the catastrophes they caused in Iraq," he added, as he spoke to thousands of worshippers during the first Friday prayer of Ramadan. Khamenei's remarks... Gulf Daily News (Bahrain) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897215/posts#comment Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:34:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897235/posts Dennis of Damascus and Tehran Tom September 14, 2007 FrontPageMagazine.com Kenneth R. Timmerman As Democrats in Congress and the organized left denounce the cautious optimism of Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus (“General Betray Us,” according to moveon.org), some Members continue to consort with the enemy in ways reminiscent of Hanoi Jane Fonda in the early 1970s. Dennis Kucinich is the latest among the Congressional Democrats to travel the road to Damascus, to give aid and comfort to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with a tarted-up reporter for Syrian state television, Kucinich laid out his plan for... FrontPageMagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897235/posts#comment Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896998/posts TEHRAN, Iran - President Bush will one day be tried in court just like deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for his involvement in the Iraq tragedy, Iran's supreme leader said Friday. Speaking to thousands of worshippers during the first Friday prayer of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Bush will be called to account for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. "A day will come that the current U.S. president and officials will be tried in an international supreme court for the catastrophes they caused in Iraq," he said. "Americans will have to... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896998/posts#comment Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:14:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897047/posts Iran's Supreme Leader said in Tehran's first Friday Prayers in the fasting month of Ramadan, "Alert and wise Iranian nation, relying on strong faith and resistance, made US project of weakening Islamic Revolution face defeat." Addressing thousands of Tehrani worshipers at central campus of Tehran University, the Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei added, "The Iranian nation would continue paving the same proud and glorious path, and a time will come when no power would dare to threaten this nation, even in his mind... Al Bawaba http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897047/posts#comment Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:37:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896571/posts TEHRAN, Iran — President Bush will one day be tried in court just like deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for his involvement in the Iraq tragedy, Iran's supreme leader said Friday. Speaking to thousands of worshippers during the first Friday prayer of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Bush will be called to account for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. "A day will come that the current U.S. president and officials will be tried in an international supreme court for the catastrophes they caused in Iraq," he said. "Americans will have to... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896571/posts#comment Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:14:08 GMT