Iran president cements anti-U.S. front with Venezuela
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Mahmoud   Ahmadinejad shored up opposition to a U.S. drive to curb Iran's   nuclear program on a visit to Venezuela on Sunday that cemented   an anti-American front with President Hugo Chavez.
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President Bushâs tour seems in part geared to counter the influence of President Hugo ChÃ¡vez of Venezuela.
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TEHRAN - Iran's leaders issued dual defiant statements yesterday, with the president announcing that the nation had 3,000 active centrifuges to enrich uranium, and the top ayatollah appointing a new Islamic Revolutionary Guards commander who once advocated military force against students.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his first visit to Sudan on Wednesday extended full support to his counterpart Omar al-Beshir, blaming the United States and its allies for the region's woes.
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Washington's drive toward regime change in Iran is only rallying the country around its radical president.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday vowed to push ahead with Iran's nuclear program, saying the West is trying to stop it to prevent Iran from emerging as a world power.
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Iran is ready to fill a vacuum in Iraq caused by the collapsing power of the United States, its president said on Tuesday.
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Iran's former president decried a wave of "Islamophobia" that he said is being spread in the United States by fear and hatred of Islam in response to terror perpetrated by Muslims.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 22 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's blistering attack on President Bush at the United Nations this week marked a striking crescendo in a campaign to project Venezuela as a country with the global reach to counter American initiatives.
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Iran will publish the speeches and writings of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel's destruction and once wrote President Bush a letter criticizing his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks, newspapers reported Tuesday.
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Iran's President Mohammad Khatami said Thursday the country has developed plans to counter a possible U.S. military strike during an interview on state-run television.
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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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Iran's president held talks Monday with Belarus' authoritarian leader, who has been courting other vehement opponents of the United States
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Jan 13 -- President Bush accused Iran Sunday of undermining peace in Lebanon, funding terrorist groups, trying to intimidate its neighbors and refusing to be open about its nuclear program and ambitions.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo   Chavez staked a claim to be the world's leading anti-American   voice by branding President Bush as the devil in a speech to   the United Nations this week.
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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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Iranian president appears unworried about the prospect of a US or Israeli air strike on his country.