Iranians took to the streets to celebrate Hassan Rohani, a moderate cleric, being declared the victor in the country's Presidential elections on Saturday. Rohani earned more than 50 percent of the vote, avoiding a run-off, and defeating the five conservative candidates who are more in line with the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Late Wednesday night, North Korea's National Defense Commission announced that it planned several more rocket launches as well as a nuclear test. It also threatened a "full-fledged confrontation" with the United States.
Dmitry Medvedev has some election advice for Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican field. They should "check their watches from time to time: It is 2012, not the mid-1970s."
Several anonymous diplomats told the Associated Press about satellite images of Iran cleaning up a military site after the country announced that they'll allow nuclear inspectors in, which seems, well, suspicious.
Thanks to a host of military analysts, cartographers, and TV graphics departments, we have plenty of ideas about how an Israeli airstrike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be carried out.
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
After first saying it wouldn't respond, the United States has now denied it had anything to do with the Wednesday bombing death of an Iranian nuclear scientist.
A news agency within the country says it has a new, bomb-proof location from which to improve nuclear fuel.
The United Nations' nuclear agency is "increasingly concerned" that Iran is building nukes
The Iranian president makes a puzzling remark at a recent ceremony
He says Iran has been "testing missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload"
The situation deteriorates as a refugee crisis piles on the I.A.E.A. referral
Taking stock after an intense two days
Joe finds something else to say "no" to
An ambitious agenda at the largest U.S.-convened gathering of heads of state since the UN founding
A security studies professor suggests alarmism is more dangerous than nuclearism
Experts believe Russia and China may finally come out against Iran, but Obama will have to shift policies as well
The just-revealed covert facility draws discussion on proliferation and Obama's strength in the international arena. UPDATE (9:15am): Iran acknowledges second facility, world begins to react
Led by Obama, the UN Security Council finds unanimity, and a possible turning point, on nuclear disarmament
Remembering Hiroshima with promises of disarmament
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