Mohsen Rezai, an Iranian presidential hopeful, reportedly claimed that Iran is better equipped than the United States to help resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh situation and other regional conflicts.
At the end of April, before the current Iranian presidential election campaign gathered momentum, two leading reformist presidential candidates, Mehdi Karrubi and Mir Hossein Musavi, announced plans to form a joint committee to guarantee the transparency of the presidential election and protect against possible vote-rigging, ballot-box stuffing, voter intimidation, or other forms of electoral f
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's penchant for loopy one-liners and unsubstantiated allegations may finally be getting the best of him. A raucous presidential debate -- featuring comments so outrageous that Ahmadinejad provoked rebukes from all across the political spectrum -- has energized the Iranian electorate, and riveted attention on the June 12 presidential vote.
The leading presidential challenger, Mir Hussein Mousavi, appears to be gaining a head of steam leading up to Iran's election on June 12. Even though some polls now show Mousavi to be leading the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, some experts in Tehran maintain that political change in Tehran is unlikely. Some powerful forces in Iranian politics are unwilling to see Ahmadinejad lose.
In response to a recent Los Angeles Times article that named Azerbaijan as a "new front" in Iran's struggle against Israel, an Iranian official on June 1 denied that Tehran had any role in a failed 2008 attempt to bomb the Israeli Embassy in Baku.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have provoked an incident involving the United States -- specifically, the recent jailing of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi -- in a twisted effort to promote a rapprochement with Washington.
If there was a contest for the shortest publication time for a newspaper, then "Yas No" would be the winner.
The publication hit the newsstands on May 16 for the first time in six years, relaunched by reformists hoping to use the paper to get their message out ahead of the June 12 presidential vote.
With one month to go before Iran's June 12 presidential election, incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection chances seem high. But his candidacy is proving so polarizing that the election campaign could bring about lasting changes to Iran's political landscape.
Iran is ready to put into operation a $400 million drilling platform in the Caspian Sea. Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari announced that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will open the 14,000-ton Iran-Alborz rig "in the coming weeks."
