** FILE ** Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens to a question during a press conference in Tehran on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in the parliament in Tehran on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in the parliament in Tehran on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
** FILE ** Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) listens to a technician during his visit to the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles south of the capital, Tehran, in April 2008. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office)
** FILE ** In this Oct. 2, 2010, file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, holds up the hand of his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad after he awarded Iran's highest national medal to Assad, in a ceremony in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
** FILE ** In this Oct. 2, 2010, file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, holds up the hand of his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad after he awarded Iran's highest national medal to Assad, in a ceremony in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Iran seems to understand it cannot hang its entire strategy on the survival of Syrian President Bashar Assad (wearing sash next to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) and needs to build new alliances as contingencies. Iran has proposed a plan for elections in Syria for parliament and president. (Associated Press)
Iran seems to understand it cannot hang its entire strategy on the survival of Syrian President Bashar Assad (wearing sash next to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) and needs to build new alliances as contingencies. Iran has proposed a plan for elections in Syria for parliament and president. (Associated Press)
Israel says Islamic militants on its borders are receiving weapons through a pipeline created through an alliance between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Sudanese counterpart, Lt. Gen. Omar Bashir (right). (Associated Press)
