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Ahmadinejad has registered as a possible candidate for the June 28 presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position.
June 2, 2024
Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a firebrand populist known for the crackdown that followed his disputed 2009 reelection, is barred from running.
June 9, 2024
Politics
Days after the attacks on Hezbollah with exploding electronic devices across Lebanon, Israel has struck a suburb of Beirut, killing a top commander.
Sept. 20, 2024
Opinion
The killing of a critic of the Abbas government has enraged Palestinians who want free elections and political reform.
June 26, 2021
Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip have killed more than a dozen people as health workers are in the second phase of an urgent polio vaccination campaign.
Sept. 7, 2024
Columbia University, epicenter of last spring’s campus movement against Israel’s war in Gaza, is bracing for the return of protests this semester.
Sept. 3, 2024
Defying Iran’s supreme leader, the confrontational former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad filed papers Wednesday to contest next month’s elections, a long-shot bid to regain his post that stunned even veteran political observers.
April 12, 2017
Families of hostages held in Gaza vent anger at Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for his failure to seal a cease-fire that would free their loved ones.
Aug. 23, 2024
Israel says the raids across the northern West Bank are aimed at preventing attacks, but Palestinians see them as a widening of the Israel-Hamas war.
Aug. 29, 2024
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who surprised many by filing papers last week to run for another term, was not on the slate of presidential candidates finalized by the council that oversees elections.
April 20, 2017