Islam

'Iran backers funding US universities' An Islamic, Manhattan-based charity suspected of being an illegal front for Iran is funding professors at US universities, the New York Post reported Monday. Protesters yell at people passing through...

In this article: Columbia University, New York Post, Iran, Islamic, Rutgers University, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, US, and American Enterprise Institute

...Brazil, Venezuela Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Tehran on Sunday for a five nation tour, including Brazil and Venezuela, both supporters of the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear programme. Ahmadinejad's five-day...

In this article: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Brazil, Islamic, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bolivia, Tehran, United States, and Iran

...diplomats he said were being held by U.S. troops in Iraq. "Unfortunately they crossed the border illegally," Ahmadinejad told reporters at an Islamic summit in Istanbul. "Every country has a punishment for those who cross borders...

In this article: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Islamic, Thomson Reuters, Tehran, Hillary Clinton, United States, and Small business

...are in the midst of seizing up to $650 million in assets from the Alavi Foundation, which they charge funnels money to Iran-supported Islamic schools in the United States and to a syndicate of Iranian spies based in Europe. In one of the...

In this article: Iran, Ivy League, Rutgers University, Columbia University, Islamic, Tax, and American Enterprise Institute

...arrival of the fuel. Iranian and Turkish officials discussed the idea on Monday on the sidelines of an Islamic states conference in Istanbul attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Turkish officials said. They did not...

In this article: Iran, Tehran, United States, International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, U.N., Glyn Davies, Geneva, Reuters, and Istanbul

...victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June's presidential elections, which plunged Iran into its deepest internal crisis since the Islamic revolution of 1979. Supporters of defeated candidates staged protests that were crushed by...

In this article: Supreme Leader, Iran, God, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Islamic, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Tehran

...week to six years in prison "for crimes against internal national security, propaganda against the Islamic republic, insulting the president and creating public disorder by his presence at illegal protests," an Iran Web site reported. He was...

In this article: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Islamic, George Washington University, Amnesty International, Cairo, and China

...Ahmadinejad's re-election. The authorities have portrayed the post-election demonstrations, quelled by the Revolutionary Guards and Islamic militiamen, as a Western plot to undermine the Islamic Republic. Thousands were arrested for...

In this article: Mirhossein Mousavi, Iran, Islamic, Hillary Clinton, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Tehran, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

...to isolate the Islamic republic. Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir pulled out of an Islamic summit in Istanbul on Sunday - a trip that the European Union had objected to because of his indictment by the International Criminal Court.

In this article: Omar Hassan al-Bashir, European Union, Sudan, Islamic, Tayyip Erdogan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Istanbul, and Darfur