Iran in photos

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, talks with a boy during a rally in Tehran this month marking the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Ahmadinejad is seeking reelection in the June 12 balloting.  (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, greets U.N. official Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann in Tehran, where an economic summit is being held this week.   (ATTA KENARE, AFP/Getty Images)

Marchers display photos of Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, left, and current supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a celebration marking the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.  (Hasan Sarbakhshian / Associated Press)

Iranians burn a U.S. flag during anniversary celebrations in Tehran. The U.S. has not had formal diplomatic relations with Iran since 1980.  (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)

A donkey draped in an Israeli flag attracted attention in Azadi Square in Tehran as marchers marked the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran.  (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)

Schoolgirls with banners and Iranian flags joined thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-U.S. slogans in Tehran.  (Behrouz Mehri / AFP / Getty Images)

Backed by blow-ups of Iran’s current and former leaders, Ayatollah Ali Khamanei at left and the late Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, photographers capture images of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the revolution that brought Khomeini to power.  (Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA)

A model of Iran’s satellite-launching Safir 2 rocket was a centerpiece for an anniversary rally in Tehran’s Azadi Square.  (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)

Escorted by bodyguards, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greets well-wishers from his car as he makes his way through crowds at the anniversary celebration.  (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)

Schoolgirls wave the flag of Iran during celebrations in Tehran marking the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled U.S.-backed Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi and brought hard-line clerics to power. Iran’s president said Tuesday the world was “entering an era of dialogue” and that his country would welcome talks with its longtime adversary, the United States, if they are based on mutual respect.  (Hasan Sarbakhshian / Associated Press)

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi speaks to journalists outside the Center for the Defense of Human Rights in Tehran after the raid.  (AFP/Getty Images)

In a sermon before Friday prayers, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president of Iran, urged President Obama to avoid Bush’s approach on Iran’s nuclear program.  (Behrouz Mehri, AFP/Getty Images)