Candidates widely split on Iran
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The top presidential contenders are offering markedly different ideas on how they would keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons, suddenly a central issue in the 2008 campaign.
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Americans attending Democratic presidential contender John Kerry's campaign events are an eclectic mix of undecided voters, Kerry backers and sometimes angry folks who are still struggling over their choice in the November 2 election.
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The campaign spotlight has focused on terrorism and the war in Iraq, but the two major presidential candidates have also put forth radically different health care proposals that reflect their core ideologies.
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Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama differed Monday on whether, as president, they would hold early talks with US foes like Iran and North Korea.
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HANOVER, New Hampshire  - Democratic presidential candidates pounced on rival Hillary Clinton for her positions on Iraq and Iran in a debate on Wednesday as they sought to undercut her status as the campaign front-runner.
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Close to 400 people registered as candidates Saturday for Iranian parliamentary elections seen as a referendum on hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 20 -- In a feisty session with leading foreign policy experts, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defiantly stuck to his hard-line positions on issues including Iran's nuclear program and a need for further study to confirm the Holocaust.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign blasted the Bush administration for &quot;another national security failure&quot; on Iran's nuclear program and urged that Tehran be threatened with tougher sanctions.
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White men, conservatives, evangelicals and other pivotal building blocs of the Republican Party are divided among its leading contenders for president, leaving the race for the 2008 GOP nomination highly fluid, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.
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The I.A.E.A. report has exposed a new divide between the United Nations inspectors and the United States over how to contain Iranâs atomic program.
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A debate within the U.S. administration over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program has intensified between those favoring a diplomatic solution and those pushing the option of military strikes, the New York Times reported in Saturday editions.
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Many Iranian Americans in the Washington area describe President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a provocateur, a hypocrite and an embarrassment to Iran. Yet some are disturbed about the hostile reception Ahmadinejad has received this week during his visit to the United States.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Republican Mitt Romney attacked rival Mike Huckabee for criticizing President George W. Bush's foreign policy on Wednesday, while a new poll showed the race among Democrats in Iowa still neck-and-neck.
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Iran presents a difficult balancing act for those in power in the U.S. &#151; and those seeking it. For President Bush, condemnation of Tehran's nuclear efforts must now be mixed with diplomacy. U.S. and Iranian ambassadors plan to sit down Monday in Baghdad in a rare direct meeting to discuss stabilizing Iraq.
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A U.S.-European rift surfaced Tuesday over how harshly to deal with Iran and its suspect nuclear program, with the Europeans ignoring American suggestions and circulating their own recommendations to other delegates at a key meeting of the U.N. atomic agency.
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A narrowed field of White House hopefuls sparred about nuclear terrorism, immigration and one another as they faced off in a double-feature debate in New Hampshire on Saturday, just three days before the state holds the first-in-the-nation primaries.
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After railing against U.S. global   dominance at the United Nations this week, hard-line Iranian   President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared with some of his   most-prominent American critics to debate issues including   Iran's nuclear program and his denial of the Holocaust.