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NEWS ABOUT: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stories: 238 news summaries

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Iranian Prez Banned From Ground Zero

Controversial leader sought to place
wreath on 9/11 site

Sep 20, 07 3:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been barred from visiting Ground Zero to "pay his respects" during a visit to New York. The city's police commissioner said the controversial president would not be allowed to leave a wreath, citing construction barring visitors from the site. "If there were a... More »

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Iran • New York City • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Ground Zero • ban

Bush Will Never Pull Trigger on Iran Bombings

But Salon says vice prez could still 'engineer' a war

Sep 19, 07 6:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Most pundits say Bush will knock out Iran's nuke plants by spring, but months of not pulling the trigger prove he'll never do it - though someone else might, argues Steven Clemons in Salon. Advisers pushing for the military option have lost ground to moderates, and a coterie of neocons... More »

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Iran • Dick Cheney • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • White House • George W. Bush

Iran Boasts of Nuke Potential

Ahmadinejad claims 3,000 centrifuges, after UN praises its probe cooperation

Sep 2, 07 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran is operating 3,000 centrifuges in a bid to enrich uranium for its nuclear program, president Ahmadinejad said today, contradicting a UN report that listed far fewer. But the Iranian president praised the report by the UN nuclear watchdog, which said the country’s rate of enrichment activities had... More »

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Iran • United Nations • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • sanctions • nuclear • Natanz • uranium • nuclear enrichment

Iran is Ready
to Fill Power Vacuum in Iraq

Ahmadinejad chides
US, dismisses threat of action against Iran

Aug 28, 07 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech today that Iran is ready to fill a coming power vacuum in Iraq. "The political power of the occupiers is collapsing rapidly," said the leader, who earlier this month assured Nouri al-Maliki that Iran would be happy to help stabilize Iraq... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Nouri al-Maliki • power

Iran Executes 30 in Past Month

Aug 19, 07 1:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran executed up to 30 people in the past month, mostly in public hangings, in a nationwide crackdown on murderers, sex offenders, drug traffickers, and other threats to "social security," reports the Observer. Human rights advocates say the sweep, also advertised as countering an alleged surge in US-backed... More »

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Iran • Tehran • human rights • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • execution • capital punishment • hanging • public executions • political activism

Iranian Shakes Woman's Hand, Drops Prez Bid

Youtube video shows reformist leader with uncovered females

Aug 3, 07 5:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran's opposition leader has dropped out of the race to unseat Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president after the circulation of a Youtube video that appears to show him shaking hands with a woman, says the Guardian. The video and several photographs of Mohammad Khatami also show the reform-minded former Iranian president... More »

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Iran • YouTube • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • women • Mohammad Khatami • election

Iran Erupts Over Gas Rationing

Leaders fear West will cut fuel imports

Jun 27, 07 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Angry Iranians torched Tehran gas stations yesterday and smashed windows as protests against gas rationing turned violent, the BBC reports. Motorists formed huge lines to fill  tanks before new laws took effect limiting Iranians to 26 gallons of gas a month. Despite its oil reserves, Iran is short of refining... More »

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Iran • oil • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • gas • protests • embargo • rationing

Interest Rate Cut Triggers Panic in Iran

President goes over finance minister's head, ignites sell-off

May 25, 07 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran's erratic president has set off a stock market scare by ordering banks to slash interest rates, despite high inflation and lots of expert advice to the contrary. The move sparked panicked selling and fears of a full-blown financial crisis, the Guardian reports. The new decreed rate is 12%, down... More »

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Iran • stock market • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • finance • bank • US economy • interest rate • interest rate cut

Why Iran
Must Be Bombed

Norman Podhoretz on Ahmadinejad, Hitler, and the case for war with Iran

May 21, 07 5:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - The only way to protect the West from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to bomb Iran now, writes Norman Podhoretz in Commentary. The irascible neocon blasts left-wingers who downplay the threat of a nuclear Iran, and argues that deterrence won’t stop the Iranian leader once he’s armed. More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Norman Podhoretz • nuclear weapons • bomb

(Newser) - Richad Gere and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are hardly soulmates, but both got into trouble last week for kissing (not each other) in public. The actor was hanged in effigy by an angry mob for kissing a female Bollywood star during a charity event in India; the Iranian president  reprimanded by religious... More »

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India • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Richard Gere • Shilpa Shetty • Bollywood • Kiss • kissing

Presidential Peck Sets Off Iranian Sex Scandal

A kiss on the hand lands Ahmadinejad
in hot water with hard-liners

May 2, 07 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at the center of an unlikely sex scandal today, after being caught on camera kissing the hand—even if it was gloved—of a retired schoolteacher. Ahmadinejad's sexy faux pas, at a ceremony honoring the country's teachers, is a violation of Shariah law, hard-liners say. More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • sex scandal • women's rights • indecency • sex • Islamic Sharia law • scandal

Iran Frees Murderous
Vice Squad

Convictions overturned for hardliners who killed "morally  corrupt" citizens

Apr 19, 07 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran's Supreme Court has exonerated a group of Islamic hardliners earlier convicted of the vigilante killing of Iranians they considered "morally corrupt,"  the Times reports. Six members of the Basiji force, an elite paramilitary group, were originally convicted of murdering five people, including an engaged couple walking... More »

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Iran • Islam • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Basiji • fundamentalism • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Iran Raises Nuclear Stakes

'Can Produce Uranium on Industrial Scale'

Apr 10, 07 6:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran claims to have scaled up its nuclear capability by enriching uranium "on an industrial scale, " the Guardian reports, in defiance of U.S. and U.N. pressure to dimantle the program. The announcement from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  is sure to heighten conflict with the White House and... More »

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Iraq • Iran • nuclear proliferation • United Nations • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Ali Larijani • uranium

Britons Ask: Were Captives Too Cozy With Iranians? 

Co-operation called, "Bloody Shambles"

Apr 6, 07 7:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the euphoria over the homecoming of the 15 British captives subsides, some Britons are charging that the sailors and marines went overboard in co-operating with their captors. Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Gray tells London’s Daily Mail: "In my days you would have got name, rank and serial... More »

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Iran • Tony Blair • terrorism • propaganda • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • war • sailor • Britain • Marine • hostage

British Sailors Come Home

Apr 5, 07 7:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The fifteen British sailors captured by Iran are back in the UK. As soon as the British Airways jet touched down as Heathrow, Blair traded his measured diplomatic tone  for harsher words, warning the "elements of the Iranian regime" were still arming insurgents inside Iraq." More »

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Iraq • Iran • Tony Blair • terrorism • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • war • Britain • hostage

IRAN TO RELEASE SAILORS

Apr 4, 07 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - The 15 captured British sailors are to be released immediately, says Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The surprise announcement came toward the end of an hour-long press conference, in which Ahmadinejad berated the British government for using the situation to create "media hype." He maintains that the Brits invaded... More »

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Iran • War on Terror • politics • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • US troops • Britain • hostage

Brit Standoff Shows Deeply Divided Iran

Radicals and moderates fight it out, tacitly, over captured sailors

Apr 4, 07 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - An internal squabble between Iran's radical president and more moderate officials  is in evidence in the crisis over the captive British marines and sailors. President Ahmadinejad and his Revolutionary Guards are pushing for a trial. Cooler heads, including Ali Larijani, the diplomat who offered bilateral negotiations yesterday, are pushing back,... More »

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Iran • War on Terror • politics • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Ali Larijani • Britain • hostage

Saudi King Calls Iraq War Illegal

Latest evidence of breach with ally

Mar 29, 07 8:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia fired a warning shot at the Bush administration yesterday, calling Iraq “an illegal foreign occupation” and urging Arab leaders to unite to prevent U.S. domination of the region.  The Saudis "are telling the U.S. they need to listen to their... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Bush administration • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Riyadh • United States • war • boycott • Iraq war

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