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Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran (L), arrives for his meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 26, 2013. (EPA/JASON SZENES)
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Escorted by his bodyguards, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, waves to his well wishers as he attends an annual nation-wide pro-Palestinian rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran, on Friday, August 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
The Ahmadinejad Years
On June 24, 2005, a grinning, fundamentalist city mayor was elected president of Iran with almost 63 percent of the vote. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comprehensively defeated the pre-election favorite, former president Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, to become Iran’s sixth...In the Shadow of Rafsanjani and Khamenei
Hassan Rouhani’s victory in Iran’s presidential elections last month has been greeted with euphoria among Iranians and cautious optimism from Western diplomats, with an overriding sense of relief uniting the two camps. Relief among Iranians that they won’t face...Caption:
Etrat Kazemi, seated at center, registers her candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo)
Déjà Vu in Tehran
The five-day registration process for candidates in next month’s Iranian presidential elections officially opened this Tuesday, marking the beginning of what is likely to be a very important few weeks in Iran. In a live TV broadcast, Iranian interior minister Mostafa...Caption:
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, smiles, as Saeed Jalili, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council walks away, after they posed for press in Almaty, largest Kazakhstan’s city on Friday, April 5, 2013 (AP Photo/ Shamil Zhumatov, pool)