Iran Pledges Help to Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Nov 28, 2006 Iraq's president met with his Iranian counterpart on Monday, asking for assistance with his nation's growing security crisis. Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responded warmly: "Definitely, the Iranian government and nation will stand next to its brother Iraq and will do every help it can to strengthen security in Iraq." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mr. Fish – Ahmadinejad’s Secret Signs

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Hey, Iran, What’s All the Plutonium For?

Staff / Truthdig Nov 15, 2006 International inspectors have found unexplained plutonium and highly enriched uranium traces in an Iranian nuclear waste facility and have asked Tehran for an explanation. We're guessing that Ahmadinejad isn't trying to power a time machine, like the one from "Back to the Future" (above). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

’60 Minutes’ Probes Anti-U.S. Iranian President

Staff / Truthdig Aug 17, 2006 Iran's leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, railed against America's "blind" support for Israel in a wide-ranging interview by Mike Wallace on "60 Minutes." Watch it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iranian Leader Starts Blog

Staff / Truthdig Aug 14, 2006 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, has launched a personal Web log. His first entry scooped Gawker.com with the world's first pictures of Tom Cruise's and Katie Holmes' baby, Suri. Kidding. The blog post rails against the U.S. and Israel, natch. Hey, Arabic Farsi speakers: read the blog Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: An Outbreak of Diplomacy in the West Wing

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Jun 8, 2006 Having realized that threatening Iran was getting them nowhere, Bush & Co. now find themselves in the awkward position of broaching diplomatic talks with a member of the "Axis of Evil." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Andy Borowitz — Bush Demands That Iran Halt Production of Long Letters

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig May 13, 2006 The political satirist reports: White House aides said that writing an 18-page letter to President Bush, who is known for his extreme distaste for reading, was the most provocative act Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could possibly have committed. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Letter From Iran

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Iranians Fault Rice’s Dismissal of Letter

Staff / Truthdig May 10, 2006 An Iranian diplomat says that Condoleezza Rice squandered a potential "turning point" in U.S.-Iranian relations by her "hasty" rejection of a letter from the Iranian president to Bush. (Read the letter) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iranian Leader Invites Bush to Join in Theocracy

Staff / Truthdig May 10, 2006 President Ahmadinejad, in his somewhat rambling letter to Bush, encourages him to abandon democracy in favor of theocracy (Sam Harris might observe that America wouldn't have far to go in that respect) The Iranian leader also criticized Bush's use of secret CIA prisons, and mentioned the nuclear issue only indirectly N Times article on the letter The translated letter in full Condoleezza Rice dismisses the letter . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Iran Lifts Ban on CNN After Apology

Staff / Truthdig Jan 17, 2006 CNN had mistranslated the Iranian president as saying Iran had a right to use nuclear "weapons," rather than nuclear "technology." | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iran ‘Does Not Need Nuclear Arms’

Staff / Truthdig Jan 14, 2006 The Iranian president, while claiming that his nuclear research is peaceful, slammed the "double standards" of the West and those who seek to "make peace for themselves by creating war for others" | storyPerhaps he's right, but this guy is also a Holocaust denierUpdate: And now he wants to hold a debate on the scale and consequences of the Holocaust. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )