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Shahab Hosseini is an uneducated, hotheaded husband in "A Separation," by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (left). The film, which won the Golden Globe for best foreign-language film, is complex and, if taken as an allegory, could be seen as seditious. (Sony Pictures Classics via Associated Press)

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘A Separation’

By Adam Mazmanian - Special to The Washington Times

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (Associated Press)

Israeli officials worry over Iran’s bomb-making abilities

By Abraham Rabinovich - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, file photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, confers a rank to an unidentified member of Iran's army during a ceremony, in Tehran, Iran. During a graduation at Iran's main army academy, the country's leader sketched out the Islamic Republic's tougher military posture. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader, File)

Iranian lawmaker says Obama proposed talks

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press

World Scene

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walks to speak at a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Russia: New sanctions against Iran too stifling

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, Saudi crown prince Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz, right, welcomes Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. China's premier visits Saudi Arabia as part of six-day Mideast trip that also takes him to the United Arab Emirates and qatar. The visit to the region runs from Jan. 14-19. Wen Jiabao is slated to discuss the Arab Spring uprising and talks are likely to also focus on the latest U.S. sanctions on Iran, a major oil exporter to China. (AP Photo/HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES

Inside the Ring

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a two-hour speech at Damascus University in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Syrian State Television via APTN)

U.S.: Strong signs that Iran is giving Syria weapons

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

Illustration by M. Ryder

ELAND: Iran sanctions won’t work

By Ivan Eland - The Washington Times

India reports new TB strain resistant to all drugs

By MARGIE MASON - Associated Press

Mohammed Shamim Sheikh, who suffers from multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, is seen Jan. 16, 2012, through an x-ray of his chest as he listens to a social worker at his home in a slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, India. Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. (Associated Press)

India reports new TB strain resistant to all drugs

By Margie Mason - Associated Press

Iran director: Film award comes amid `frustration’

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

Illustration by Nancy Ohanian for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: No-kidding red lines

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey plans to visit Israel for negotiations. The Israeli Defense Ministry confirmed the planned visit by Gen. Dempsey, but it did not give his agenda. Iran is expected to be a priority. (Associated Press)

Joint Chiefs chairman plans talks in Israel

By Combined dispatches

SANDERS: I will see you — and raise you?

By Sol Sanders

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (center) is welcomed by an unidentified Saudi official (left) as Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz (right) looks on before their meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)

Iran warns Gulf Arabs on oil

By Tarek El-Tablawy - Associated Press

U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

U.S. military chief to head to Israel as Iran tension grows

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

U.S. military chief to head to Israel as Iran tension grows

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

Beside a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, mourners carry a flag draped coffin of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in his funeral ceremony, on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Iranian Students News Agency, Mehdi Ghasemi)

Iran says CIA behind nuclear scientist’s killing

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

The shrouded body of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, is seen prior to be buried in Tehran on Jan. 13, 2012. Roshan was killed two days earlier when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car. (Associated Press/Iranian Students News Agency)

Anti-U.S. chants as slain Iran nuclear expert buried

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press

A sketch distributed Jan. 13, 2012, by Thai police show a man suspected of planning a terrorist bombing in Bangkok. (Associated Press)

Lebanese held as terror warning issued in Bangkok

By Thanyarat Doksone - Associated Press