Iran president challenges Bush to debate
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Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged President Bush to a televised debate, a proposal the White House immediately dismissed as a "diversion."
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President Bush isn't the only leader facing serious economic woes. Icy weather is causing big political trouble for Iran's hard-line president, who is under attack for mismanaging the economy as the country runs perilously low on gas for heat.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with a U.S. academic who called him a "petty and cruel dictator" at a forum in New York on Monday where Ahmadinejad said Iran was a peaceful nation and a victim of terrorism.
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President Bush and Iranian   President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed over Iran's nuclear   ambitions in long-range rhetoric sparring before the United   Nations on Tuesday.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that President Bush sent a "message of confrontation" during his recent Mideast trip. Bush spent much of his visit to the region, which he wrapped up on Wednesday, rallying support among Arab allies for a strong stance against Iran Â calling the country the world's top sponsor of terrorism.
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President Bush refuses to rule out war with Iran. Iranian President Mohammad Khatami says his country is ready to defend itself against a U.S. attack. The United States is pushing for a peaceful solution to its nuclear impasse with Iran but, with mistrust on both sides running high, encouraging signs are hard to find.
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President Bush and Iranian   President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed over Iran's nuclear   ambitions in addresses to the United Nations on Tuesday, but   Washington agreed to allow more time for talks with Tehran.
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President George W. Bush said on Sunday that Iran was threatening security around the world by backing "extremists" and urged its Gulf Arab allies to "confront this danger before it is too late."
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Iran's president proposed Wednesday that he and President Bush hold a public debate at the U.N. General Assembly later this month. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first proposed last month that he and Bush should debate, and the White House had dismissed the idea.
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President Bush is confronting what could become the biggest challenge of his second term: how to contain Iran's nuclear program.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday called for a televised debate with President Bush on world issues.
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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.
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President George W. Bush on Wednesday backed away from a U.S. claim that Iran's leaders directed an effort to give bomb devices to Iraqi militants and said he was not using the charges as a pretext for a war with Iran.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with an American university president who called him a "petty and cruel dictator" at a forum on Monday where Ahmadinejad criticized Israel and the United States and said Iran was a peaceful nation.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call Tuesday for a televised debate with President Bush is not the first time the hard-line leader has made such a direct overture.
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A former Iranian leader once seen as the harbinger of moderation and better relations with the United States is making the case for dialogue nearly on the doorstep of the White House.
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Iran's president held talks Monday with Belarus' authoritarian leader, who has been courting other vehement opponents of the United States