Iran's most powerful figure dismissed President Barack Obama's extraordinary Persian New Year gesture, insisting Saturday - in an apparent attempt to keep the political establishment unified in an anti-American posture - that the U.S. administration's actions must match its rhetoric before Iran would alter its foreign policy. ...more

March 22, 2009

Iran's president accused "a few bullying powers" of trying to thwart his country's peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that "the American empire" is nearing collapse. ...more

September 24, 2008

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to Iraq next month in the first such visit by an Iranian leader, Iraqi officials said Thursday, adding that Iran had postponed a fourth round of talks with the United States about Iraq's security. ...more

February 15, 2008