Iran votes in elections seen as test for Ahmadinejad
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Iranians voted on Friday for local councils and a powerful clerical body in the first electoral test for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his allies since he swept to office in 2005.
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TEHRAN -- Nineteen months after an upset election victory catapulted him to a controversial role on the world stage, firebrand Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is facing criticism from both the left and right, much of it from Iranians who believe he hasn't delivered on his populist economic promises.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that Iran would not launch an attack on Israel or any other country, and he does not believe the U.S. is preparing for war against Iran.
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Partial results from key polls in Iran suggest a setback for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said the world would witness the destruction of Israel soon, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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The hard-liners who won Iran's parliamentary elections have focused on women's rights in their efforts to reverse the reforms carried out under the moderate president.
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country is not heading for armed conflict with the US.
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IRAQâS national election campaign kicked off yesterday with angry accusations that Iran was masterminding the continuing insurgency in an effort to undermine democracy and bring about clerical rule.
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TEHRAN -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suffered an embarrassing blow in local council races, according to partial election results yesterday, in voting viewed as a sign of public discontent with his hard-line stance.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 -- After several days of controversy, heckling and vitriolic headlines in the local tabloid newspapers, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York was capped Wednesday by a 76 to 22 U.S. Senate vote calling on the Bush administration to designate the Irania...
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Iranian president appears unworried about the prospect of a US or Israeli air strike on his country.
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WASHINGTON -- The leaders of Iraq and Jordan warned yesterday that Iran is trying to influence the Iraqi elections scheduled for Jan. 30 to create an Islamic government that would dramatically shift the geopolitical order between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims in the Middle East.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday Iran would do whatever it could to help provide security to Iraq amid warnings the country was on the brink of civil war.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to speak before the United Nations on Tuesday, a day after he  challenged a university audience to look into "who was truly involved" in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Candidates began registering on Saturday for Iran's parliamentary election in March, which will pit conservatives who now dominate the assembly against moderates seeking a comeback.
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Iran's biggest reformist party said on Monday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had suffered a "decisive defeat" in nationwide elections last week due to his government's "authoritarian and inefficient methods".
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Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked Tuesday to head a key clerical body empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader &#151; a vote seen as a victory for Iran's moderate conservatives, state media reported.