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Iran leader to visit Nigeria as it takes UN post (AP)

July 1st, 2010

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the media as he sits at the start of his press conference at the presidency, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 28, 2010. Ahmadinejad said Iran will postpone any talks with the West over its nuclear program until late August to 'punish' world powers for imposing tougher sanctions against Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Nigeria this weekend as the West African nation assumes the rotating presidency of the United Nations’ security council, an Iranian diplomat said…

Iran center stage at nuclear treaty conference (AP)

May 4th, 2010

Interactive graphic on the nuclear process from the extraction of uranium to the creation of a nuclear bomb as US President Barack Obama hosts a summit aimed at keeping atomic weapons out of terrorist hands.(AFP iactiv)AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seized center stage at the opening of a monthlong debate at the United Nations on how to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. But…

On UN stage, Iran leader rejects nuclear charges (AP)

May 3rd, 2010

Demonstrator Sadra Shahab, of the Brooklyn borough of New York, holds a flag during a rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside United Nations Headquarters, Monday, May 3, 2010, in New York.  Ahmadinejad addressed a U.N. treaty conference reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty during a visit to New York Monday. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday rejected allegations his country is developing nuclear weapons, saying Washington has offered not “a single credible proof.”


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Iran, US take their nuclear cases to UN stage (AP)

May 3rd, 2010

The motorcade carrying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad drives past the American Mission to the United Nations on it's way to a Midtown hotel, Sunday, May 2, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brings his nuclear case to New York on Monday, turning a U.N. treaty conference into a stage for Tehran’s long-running showdown with the Western…

Ahmadinejad extolls Iran’s military might (AP)

April 18th, 2010

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, waves to media, prior to a meeting at the sideline of the International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 17, 2010. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday said any revision of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 'must be done by independent countries who do not own nuclear weapons'. The five-year review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the cornerstone of global efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, will be held in May. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday extolled Iran’s military might during an annual army parade, saying the country is so powerful today that no one would dare attack it.


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Ahmadinejad: Sanctions aid, rather than hurt, Iran (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inspects centrifuges during a visit to the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in 2008. US President Barack Obama said Friday the United States will continue to ratchet up the pressure on Iran over its nuclear program but would do so with unified binternational/b backing.(AFP/HO/File)AP - Faced with the prospect of new sanctions because of Iran’s nuclear defiance, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that new penalties would only strengthen the country’s technological progress by…

Iran bans leading pro-reform political party (AP)

March 15th, 2010

Logo of the Iranian reformist party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF). An Iranian court has sentenced a top female reformist arrested after last year's election dispute to three years in jail for plotting to harm national security, her lawyer has said. Azar Mansouri is a senior lader in the IIPF.(afp.com)AP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hard-line government said Monday it has banned Iran’s largest pro-reform political party in a new strike against an opposition movement that has largely been swept…

Iran leader: US playing `game’ in Afghanistan (AP)

March 10th, 2010

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, unseen, at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Taking aim at the U.S., Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that it's the United States that is playing a 'double game' in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists it once supported.  (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Taking aim at the U.S., Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that it’s the United States that is playing a “double game” in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists it once…