Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Conservatives split on Iran's next leader
Jason Rezaian Tehran Conservatives aligned with Iran's supreme leader may enjoy his support, but their inability to rally behind one candidate could hurt their chances of replacing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president.
Strongmen weep as they bid Chavez adios
Some of the world's most notorious strongmen have wept openly at the lavish state funeral of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leftist whose revolution won him friends and foes at home and abroad.
Politics, history, theology and grief in Chavez's lavish adios
Laurent Thomet, Peter Foster Venezuela has given its late president Hugo Chavez a lavish farewell at a state funeral that brought some of the world's most notorious strongmen to tears, with music, prayers and a fiery speech by...
Bitter Venezuela election fight begins
Jordi Miro Venezuela has plunged into a bitter election fight to succeed Hugo Chavez, with acting President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles facing off in a flurry of name-calling.
Turkey's Zionism comment 'dark and false'
Israel has slammed Turkish Prime Minister's "crime against humanity" comment.
Iran power struggle claims president's man
Jason Rezaian TEHRAN: Iran's parliament has voted to impeach the country's labour minister, the ninth minister from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet to be sacked during Mr Ahmadinejad's second term.
Iran's top cleric rejects direct talks with the US
Thomas Erdbrink Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected any idea of bilateral talks with the United States.
Elections destined to bring about a new global order
Foreign Policy LAST year, the world witnessed an unusual number of high-profile elections. This year everything from the European debt crisis to Iran's nuclear program and the stability of Africa will be influenced...
Read all about it: how 2013 unfolded
We live in an age in which the average consumer expects instant gratification and there is no reason why those people who are interested in the world's bigger picture should be left out.
Hugo Chavez names successor after cancer relapse
After 14 years in power, the seemingly indefatigable Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced a relapse of his cancer and designated vice president Nicolas Maduro as his heir apparent.
Running battles in Tehran as Iran's currency collapses
Robert Tait Iranian riot police fight protesters outside Tehran's grand bazaar as the country's economic woes worsen.
Economic woes spur public discontent in Iran's capital
Tehran THE first outbreak of public anger over Iran's collapsing currency and other economic maladies jolted the heart of the capital on Wednesday, with riot police violently clamping down on black-market...
Google and Gmail blocked in Iran
Iran blocks access to Google's popular and relatively secure Gmail service today amid first steps by the Islamic republic to establish a walled-off national intranet separate from the worldwide...
UN assembly divided by free speech row
Paul Richter, New York The annual UN General Assembly meeting, intended to celebrate the world's common values, is this year exposing instead the gulf between Western and Islamic perspectives on freedom of expression.
Netanyahu draws 'red line' on Iranian nuclear program
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew his "red line" for Iran's nuclear program on Thursday - the point at which Iran has amassed nearly enough highly enriched uranium for a single atomic...
A beer with Ahmadinejad? Iranians fall for spoof
Megan Levy An Iranian news agency has apologised for reporting as fact an opinion poll from spoof newspaper The Onion that stated most white Americans would vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over...
Iran currency plummets as sanctions bite
Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Julian Borger Iranians are suffering their worst financial crisis since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, with the national currency hitting an all-time low and the prices of staple goods soaring.
How a bared breast triggered a 'cultural earthquake'
Golshifteh Farhani was Iran's biggest film star. But when she bared her breast in a French video, she was banished from the country and became a lightning rod for the divisions in Iranian society
Desperate search for survivors after massive Iran quakes
TEHRAN: Rescuers in northwest Iran are striving to dig survivors from the rubble of twin earthquakes that have levelled villages and killed at least 180 people and injured 1300 others.
Iran quakes death toll rises to 250
Rescue teams in northwest Iran strived on Sunday to dig survivors out of the rubble of villages levelled by twin earthquakes that killed at least 250 people and injured more than 2000.
