Voters across Iran are heading to the polls for the first parliamentary election since the 2009 presidential vote that to a bloody crackdown on opposition activists.
It probably wasn't the reaction Tehran was hoping for following the much hyped announcement that it had developed "advanced nuclear centrifuges," but the televised display of achievement is garnering shrugs in some of the places that matter most.
Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, a day marked by internet censorship and disturbing promises from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the country is poised to reveal "big new" nuclear achievements
Timed only days after a released U.N. commissioned report showing that Iran's nuclear program included activities "specific to nuclear weapons," The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. may sell a package of precision-guided bombs to the United Arab Emirates in order to help "build a regional coalition to counter Iran."
One day after the UN officially issued a damning report that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had decided that the best way to respond is to insist that his nation will keep doing what it's doing--but that what it's doing isn't nuclear weapons.
Experts have long argued that the infamous phrase was mistranslated
The act of disgust is becoming a U.N. ritual
United Against Nuclear Iran rolls out scary billboards and hotel boycotts
A judge on vacation postpones likely release of Americans held since 2009
The Iranian president is a notoriously slippery interviewee
A day after Ahmadinejad's hopeful remarks, other Iranian officials backpedal
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells NBC News that they'll be freed "in two days"
Iran is trying to keep Assad in power while courting the Arab street
The Iranian president makes a puzzling remark at a recent ceremony
Seeing as how the global economy depends on it
Ayatolah Ali Hkameni says president consorts with "magicians"
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