Topic - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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  BERMAN: Iran's relentless nuclear quest

  Is an Israeli attack on Iran in the offing? Recent weeks have been rife with renewed speculation about the possibility of a military strike on Iran's nuclear program. Most famously, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reported recently that no less senior an official than Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta thinks Israel could bomb Iran's nuclear facilities by this summer.

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  Army trucks loaded with artillery rolled by the memorial palace for North Korea's late leaders as Kim Jong-un presided over a military birthday commemoration for his father Thursday.

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  Defiant Iran claims major steps in nuclear fuel

  In defiant swipes at its foes, Iran said Wednesday it is dramatically closer to mastering the production of nuclear fuel even as the U.S. weighs tougher pressures and Tehran's suspected shadow war with Israel brings probes far beyond the Middle East.

• Iran's leaders urge Hamas to not let up resisting Israel

  Iran's leaders urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamic militant group's resistance against Israel and promised support, state TV reported Sunday.

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  Iran urges Hamas to continue fight against Israel

  Iran's leaders urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamic militant group's resistance against Israel and promised support, state TV reported on Sunday.

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  Syrian army general assassinated in Damascus

  Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus Saturday in the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March, the country's state-run news agency said.

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  Iranian parliament summons Ahmadinejad

  Iran's parliament on Tuesday decided to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over a long list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the nation's economy.

• Iran calls new U.S. sanctions a strategy to sow discontent

  Iran on Tuesday dismissed new U.S. sanctions, saying they are part of a "psychological war" meant to sow discontent among Iranians and insisting they would not halt the country's nuclear program.

• U.S. waiting to see who else steps up on Iran oil embargo

  U.S. officials have lauded the growing international support for an embargo of Iranian crude oil, but it remains to be seen who beyond the European Union will embrace the boycott.

• 'Hell to pay' if terrorists' link to drug cartels isn't checked

  Collaboration between Latin American drug cartels and groups such as Iran's Quds Force and the Islamic terror group Hezbollah is growing "far faster than most policymakers in Washington, D.C., choose to admit," a former U.S. intelligence official testified Tuesday.

• Tuning in to TV

  An epic French documentary about the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime has appeared on Turkish television to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day - the first time the film has been aired on public television in a majority-Muslim country.

• Turkish state TV airs Holocaust film

  An epic French documentary about the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime has appeared on Turkish television to mark international Holocaust Remembrance Day _ the first time the film has been aired on public television in a majority-Muslim country.

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  Ahmadinejad says Iran ready for nuclear talks

  Iran is ready to revive talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, as toughening sanctions aim at forcing Tehran to sharply scale back its nuclear program.

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  Ahmadinejad, as economy falters, says he's open to talks with West

  Iran's president said Thursday that the Islamic republic is open to renewed talks with world powers about its nuclear program, as evidence mounted that fresh Western sanctions are beginning to bite the Iranian economy.

• SANDERS: I will see you — and raise you?

  President Obama has launched a new round of international diplomatic poker with what's called a "a trailing hand." It is impossible to exaggerate the forces on the table — economic, foreign and domestic — and their interplay.

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