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Iran leader gets the clicks with Facebook rumor

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

The Washington Times

KAHLILI: Obama’s re-election deal with Iran

By Reza Kahlili

It’s Iran vs. West in cyber circling of wagons

By Ali Akbar Dareini and Brian Murphy - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this photo Sept. 16, 2012, photo, a poster depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, right, and Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, late father of the radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad, Iraq. After years of growing influence, a new sign of Iranís presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iranís supreme leader gently smiling to a population once mobilized against the Islamic Republic in eight years of war. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq seeing signs of Iran’s influence

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Lara Jakes - Associated Press

A poster depicting Iran's supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right), and Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, late father of the radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, towers over a Baghdad street on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iranian ayatollah is poster boy for influence in Iraq

By Lara Jakes and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right)and Chinese President Hu Jintao review an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony Friday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Mr. Ahmadinejad held more sway at a security summit in China than he does with Iran's theocracy at home. (Associated Press)

Iran’s Ahmadinejad politically wounded but wily

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, speaks during a ceremony marking the 23rd anniversary of the death of Iran's revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Khomeini (shown in the poster at right), at his mausoleum outside Tehran on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Fars News Agency)

Iran’s Khamenei: Israel risks ‘lightning’ reply

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks to media at a press conference at Sweden's Rosenbad governmental offices in Stockholm on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Erik Martensson)

Clinton draws no conclusions on Iranian warning

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem offices on Tuesday. He slammed Iran's nuclear efforts. (Associated Press)

Top Israelis at odds on Iran sanctions

By Daniel Estrin - Associated Press

Iran leader: Any attacks bring reply

By Nasser Karimi and Brian Murphy ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Washington Times

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad answers questions in an open session in parliament in Tehran on Wednesday, the first president in the country's history to be hauled before the legislature, a serious blow to his standing in a conflict pitting him against lawmakers. (Associated Press)

Parliament grills embattled president on economy, defiance of ayatollah

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) listens March 14, 2012, to conservative lawmaker Ali Motahari (not shown), a prominent opponent of the president, as he reads out a series of questions to Ahmadinejad in an open session in parliament in Tehran. (Associated Press)

Iran parliament questions President Ahmadinejad

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press

**FILE** An unidentified defendant (back to camera) stands Feb. 18, 2012, before the Judge Nasser Seraj (center, facing camera) during his trial in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. A Tehran court began hearing the trial of 32 defendants in a $2.6 billion bank fraud described as the biggest financial scam in the country's history, state TV reported. (Associated Press)

Iran lawmakers question $4B taken by central bank

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

An Iranian fingerprints his ballot for the parliamentary elections on March 2, 2012, at Masoumeh shrine in the city of Qom, 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of Tehran. The balloting for the 290-member parliament is the first major voting since the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009 and the mass protests and crackdowns that followed. (Associated Press)

Iran leader urges strong ‘message’ from elections

By Ali Akbar Dareini and Nasser Karimi

Iran’s leaders urge Hamas to not let up resisting Israel

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

**FILE** Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister of the Gaza Strip, delivers a speech in front of portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (left), and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a visit to Tehran on Feb. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

Iran urges Hamas to continue fight against Israel

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

PIPES: Tehran holds Obama re-election wild card

By Daniel Pipes - The Washington Times

Illustration by Paul Tong

KAHLILI: On pins and needles and missiles in Tehran

By Reza Kahlili - The Washington Times

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, warned Israel and the United States on Thursday to expect military response if Iran's nuclear facilities are attacked. (Associated Press)

Iran warns against hitting nuke facilities

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This 2004 photo provided by the Williamson County Jail shows Manssor Arbabsiar, a U.S. citizen charged in a New York federal court on Oct. 11, 2011, with conspiring to kill Adel Al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. (Associated Press/Williamson County Jail via Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

Iran’s Khamenei warns U.S. over assassination claims

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press