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Iran produced a resolute defensive display to snatch a 1-0 away win over South Korea on Tuesday and qualify for the World Cup finals in Brazil.
"It's time for us all to go and see the president," Dr Hassan Rohani suddenly told my French and German counterparts, Dominique de Villepin and Joschka Fischer, and me, across a large conference table in a foreign-ministry building in south Tehran. It was October 21 2003, the first of the many "E3" (now "E3+3") negotiating meetings with the Iranians about their nuclear dossier.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Saturday that the announced results of Iran’s presidential elections signalled that the Iranian people had “decided to entrust” the new president-elect with a “strong mandate to govern” the country.
Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani won Iran's presidential election on Saturday, the interior ministry said, scoring a surprising landslide victory over conservative hardliners without the need for a second round run-off.
Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani took a solid lead over conservative rivals on Saturday in preliminary vote counting in Iran's presidential election in what could be the makings of a surprise victory over favoured hardliners.
As Iranians go to the polls to elect a new president on Friday, latest polls show that the only reformist candidate is leading the race.
Three student activists have been arrested in the city of Shiraz, human rights reports suggest.
Iranian reformists led by former President Mohammad Khatami have endorsed Hassan Rohani, the lone moderate contesting Friday's election for the presidency, held by hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the past eight years.
A hardline Iranian presidential candidate withdrew Monday from the race to boost the chances of fellow conservatives, the media reported.
At Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, 20 Sunni prisoners, facing charges such as “acting against national security” for their proselytizing activities, have been convicted of “moharebeh” [enmity with God], a capital crime, and face an unsuitable atmosphere in prison where they are constantly disrespected by prison forces for their beliefs, a source with knowledge of their situation told the Campaign...