Iran Does Not Approve of Ahmadinejad Hugging Hugo Chavez's Mom
It's just a friend consoling his friend's mother at a funeral, but to Iran's religious conservatives this was a grave offense.
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He is no stranger to assassination attempts — both real and potentially imaginary — but according to a piece in the new issue of The Atlantic the Iranian leader's closest brush with death was entirely accidental.
It's just a friend consoling his friend's mother at a funeral, but to Iran's religious conservatives this was a grave offense.
Dozens of world leaders and diplomats are joining thousands of Venezuelans in the streets of Caracas for the funeral service. Follow it live here, even though you'll have plenty of chances to see the former leader from hereon out.
With the death of Hugo Chavez, George W. Bush and the American right lose perhaps their most effective needler. Ostensibly in service of diplomacy, Chavez showed no fear in posing for photos with a rogue's gallery of world leaders.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Egypt has not gone so well, as he was lectured by a Sunni Cleric, mobbed by aggressive glad-handers, and had someone else throw a shoe at him.
What monkey? Unfazed by questions about whether his country's space monkey mission was staged, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is pretty gung ho about being his country's first man sent to space.
The Swedish ambassador crossed his legs during a meeting with the Iranian president, and Ahmadinejad was so offended that he crossed his own in retaliation. Huh?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's grasp on popularity continues to slip, as the judiciary officials reject the Iranian president's request to visit the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
A Iranian cameraman who came to New York as part of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations last week is reportedly seeking asylum in the United States.
The Onion made a joke about rural white voters preferring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Barack Obama, and the Iranian news agency FARS ran with it. What a "farce," says one of our commenters.
Iran's state-run FARS News Agency just published a shocking new Gallup Poll that was actually "conducted" by the fake news titans at The Onion.
After failing to pressure President Obama into drawing a "clear red line" on Iran's nuclear program, Benjamin Netanyahu is going it alone.
Mahmoud Ahmadenijad had more than one sinister moments when he sat down with reporters at the Warwick Hotel on Monday.
In the first visit to Iran by an Egyptian leader since the 1979 revolution, new president Mohammed Morsi took on his host country's closest ally, calling on Syria's Bashar al-Assad to step down.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: North Koreans dance for their Supreme Commander, the war on women comes to Zimbabwe and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issues his vaguest threat yet. We begin in Pyongyang.
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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