Iran’s presidential candidates may differ, but they are united in pursuing what they see as its peaceful atomic ambitions.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Iran’s nuclear programme, calling it peaceful and arguing that Tehran has no use for an atomic bomb.
Iran’s Parliament on Sunday told President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad he must appear before the assembly to explain his economic policies.
Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is shouldering the blame for the financial woes hitting the republic, writes Saeed Kamali Dehghan.
A photographer travelling with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN last week stayed behind and is seeking asylum in the United States.
The president who made a stirring declaration about internet freedom authorised a wave of cyber-attacks on Iran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on regional powers to unite against "aggression".
Iranians wrapped up a parliamentary election likely to reinforce Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s power over rival hardliners.
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/ 11 February 2012
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that the Islamic Republic would soon announce "very important" achievements in the nuclear field.
The Iranian Parliament has summoned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to answer a series of questions over the government’s handling of the economy.
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/ 5 February 2012
China has become Iran’s top trading partner as the sanctions against the Islamic republic have become progressively tougher.
Pretoria has yet to decide how it will respond to a call by the US to decrease oil imports from Iran — the source of 25% of SA’s overall supply.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has escaped the Middle East’s strongest show of contempt — a shoe-throwing attack.
Britain has begun evacuating diplomatic staff from Iran, warning of serious consequences for the Iranian government.
Russia has rejected EU calls for further sanctions against Iran in the wake of a UN reports that Tehran had experimented with nuclear weapon designs.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog is set to reveal alleged Iranian work on an advanced nuclear warhead — though this is not regarded as a "smoking gun".
Iran has demanded an official apology from the Obama administration over US claims that Tehran plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
As the US withdraws its remaining 39 000 troops from Iraq, the influence of its nemesis Iran in the corridors of power in Baghdad is likely to rise.
Tehran says the suspect in a plot to assassinate a Saudi envoy in the US belongs to an Iranian dissident group the state regards as its "sworn enemy".
Al-Qaeda says suggestions by Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the September 11 attacks were staged by the US are "ridiculous".
The US and other countries walked out of a speech by Iran’s President Ahmadinejad to the UN after he attacked the "arrogant powers" of the West.
Some 200 students have held a demonstration in Tehran against what they call the "savage" police treatment of people involved in unrest in London.
Iran says it plans to send a live monkey into space next month, with manned missions by as early as 2017.
Iran’s summer fashion offensive has become more ominous — no mullets or "un-Islamic" jewelry for men and women aren’t allowed to show any leg.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Western countries of devising plans to "cause drought" in the Islamic republic.
Iran wants a new round of talks with six world powers to focus on a host of issues including its rights as a nation.
Ally of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who favours openness and opposes greater clerical involvement in politics, is being groomed as a possible successor.
The US government said on Monday it deeply regretted the release of any classified information and would tighten security.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad basked in a rock-star welcome from Hezbollah’s Shi’ite loyalists on Wednesday.
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/ 25 September 2010
Barack Obama said claims by Iran’s president that the US had carried out the 9/11 attacks to prop up Israel were "hateful, offensive and inexcusable".
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/ 9 September 2010
Fidel Castro has accused Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of anti-Semitism in a passionate defence of Israel’s right to exist.
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/ 4 September 2010
Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Friday launched an angry attack on "doomed" US-brokered Middle East peace talks.