Close to 400 people registered as candidates Saturday for Iranian parliamentary elections seen as a referendum on hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ...more

January 6, 2008

A sharp rise in inflation has provoked fierce criticism of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - not only from his reformist opponents, but also from senior conservatives who helped bring him to power but now say he is mismanaging the economy. ...more

December 28, 2007

HARTFORD, Conn. - It was the plea heard around the world. "Don't tase me, bro" -- shouted by a Florida college student as officers removed him from a speech by Sen. John Kerry -- tops this year's list of most memorable quotes compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations. ...more

December 20, 2007

Millions of Muslims marked the zenith of the annual hajj Tuesday, praying for God's forgiveness here on a rocky desert hill, where, in Muslim tradition, Adam and Eve were reunited after leaving Eden. ...more

December 19, 2007

that a government be democratic or that it be a friend and ally in the war against al-Qaida and Islamic extremism? ...more

November 24, 2007

The Bush administration plans to push for new sanctions against Iran after the United Nation's nuclear watchdog agency reported Thursday Tehran is providing "diminishing" information about its controversial nuclear program, U.S. officials said. ...more

November 16, 2007

The head of Iran's law enforcement agency warned Friday of a renewed crackdown on Iranians who adhere to Western cultural ways. ...more

October 20, 2007

A View From Above Regarding 'Gore '08? Nobel Adds Speculation' (front page, Oct. 13): ...more

October 19, 2007

Vladimir Putin issued a veiled warning Tuesday against any attack on Iran as he began the first visit by a Kremlin leader to Tehran in six decades, a mission reflecting Russian-Iranian efforts to curb U.S. influence. ...more

October 17, 2007

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been told about a plot to assassinate him during a visit to Iran this week, a Kremlin spokeswoman said Sunday. ...more

October 15, 2007