Ahmadinejad says progress has been made.

See the article here:
Iran: Nuclear Announcement Coming

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country will announce major nuclear achievements in the next few days.

Original post:
Iran to make nuclear announcement

Iran is quietly seeking to expand its ties with Latin America in what U.S. officials and regional experts say is an effort to circumvent economic sanctions and gain access to much-needed markets and raw materials. The new diplomatic offensive, which comes amid rising tensions with Washington and European powers, includes a four-nation swing through South and Central America this month by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . His government has vowed to increase its economic, political and military influence in the United States’ back yard. Read full article > >

Read the original:
Iran seeking to expand influence in Latin America

TEHRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad acknowledged Tuesday that U.S.-designed financial sanctions are causing serious problems for Iran’s banking sector, as he appealed to lawmakers to keep his government together despite a massive embezzlement scandal . “Our banks cannot make international transactions anymore,” the embattled president said in a speech before parliament to defend his minister of economic affairs and finance against impeachment charges related to the scandal. Read full article > >

Read the original:
Ahmadinejad admits impact of sanctions on Iran

TEHRAN — A proposal by Iran’s supreme leader to radically alter the country’s constitution and abolish the presidency is drawing praise from his supporters but criticism from influential politicians. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was appointed supreme leader for life in 1989 by Shiite Muslim clerics, said in a speech last week that, if deemed appropriate, Iran could do without a president. The post is currently held by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose 2009 reelection was disputed by opponents and led to months of street protests. Read full article > >

See the article here:
Iran’s supreme leader floats proposal to abolish presidency

UNITED NATIONS — American diplomats walked out of the U.N. General Assembly as Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a fiercely anti-American speech. More than a dozen diplomats from other countries, including France, left the chamber soon afterward. Ahmadinejad attacked the United States for history of slavery, causing two world wars, using a nuclear bomb against “defenseless people,” and imposing and supporting military dictatorships and totalitarian regimes on Asian, African and Latin American nations. Read full article > >

Excerpt from:
US, other nations walk out as Iranian leader delivers fiercely anti-American speech

The media circus generated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s annual visit to the U.N. General Assembly in New York is a source of great frustration for many Iranians, who wish Western journalists would ask tougher questions about Ahmadinejad’s domestic practices. The following questions are culled from Iranian democracy and human rights activists who don’t have a chance to query the president directly: Read full article > >

Read more here:
Some human rights questions for Iran’s president

TEHRAN — Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he intends to grant a “unilateral pardon” to two Americans who have been jailed on charges of espionage for two years and release them this week. “I am helping to arrange for their release in a couple of days so they will be able to return home,” Ahmadinejad told The Washington Post in an hour-long interview at his office here. “This is of course going to be a unilateral humanitarian gesture.” Read full article > >

The rest is here:
Iran’s president says he intends to grant ‘unilateral pardon’ to two U.S. hikers

In a surprising turn, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is calling for Syria to end its crackdown on antigovernment protesters.

Originally posted here:
Iran’s President, Ahmadinejad, Calls for End to Syrian Crackdown

The power struggle between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may be as much political and economic as ideological.

View post:
A Divine Wind Blows Against Iran’s President

One person is killed and at least 20 hurt in an explosion at an Iranian oil refinery coinciding with an opening ceremony attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Excerpt from:
‘Blast’ at new Iran oil refinery

TEHRAN, Iran — The spiritual mentor of Iran’s president has harshly criticized him for his role in an internal power struggle that has split the country’s hard-liners, indicating that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s own support base is badly fraying. The cleric is the latest high-profile figure to censure Ahmadinejad, who set off the spiraling political confrontation last month by firing the intelligence minister without consulting the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who quickly reinstated him in a public slap to the president. Read full article > >

Excerpt from:
Iranian president’s spiritual mentor criticizes him for his role in internal power struggle

TEHRAN – Apparently bowing to unprecedented pressure from Iran’s clerical establishment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed an intelligence minister he had ousted in April back into his cabinet meeting on Sunday. While Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had publicly reinstated intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi following his dismissal by Ahmadinejad, it took more than three weeks for the two men to officially meet in a cabinet session. Following the supreme leader’s decision, Ahmadinejad did not go to his office for eight days. He returned to work a week ago, publicly pledging his allegiance to Khamenei and denying that a rift had developed between the two men. But when the cabinet met on Wednesday, the president and Moslehi apparently avoided being in the same room, Web sites reported, citing “busy schedules” as their reason for not meeting. Read full article > >

Original post:
Iran’s Ahmadinejad affirms Khamenei decision, tensions remain

President Ahmadinejad of Iran ends a boycott of his official duties, reports say, amid an apparent rift with supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

Follow this link:
Ahmadinejad ends ‘duties boycott’

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the West for unrest bubbling throughout the Middle East and North Africa in a speech Monday on Iran’s National Army Day.

Read the original:
Ahmadinejad: West to blame for unrest