TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday stunned the country by unexpectedly filing to run in the May presidential election, contradicting a recommendation from the ...

Father: Ahmad Saborjhian, a blacksmith. Ahmadinejad’s father changed the family name from Saborjhian to Ahmadinejad after the family moved to Tehran. He is a member of the Abadgaran party and ...

Iran's supreme leader gave his blessing to the outcome of the country's presidential election Sunday despite widespread allegations of fraud, calling the results "a divine miracle," the official ...

In today's inaugural address, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Iranians, "We need to join forces." As if to dramatize the point, major reformers, including a faction of parliament, boycotted the ceremony.

The power struggle in Iran has suddenly cast President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the nation's progressive voice. Ahmadinejad, who is feuding with the religious clerics who rule the nation, is opposing ...

Iranians are voting in their first presidential election since the "Green Revolution" of 2009, and despite the tragedy of the last vote, reformers are still hopeful they put one of their own in office ...

What monkey? Unfazed by questions about whether his country's space monkey mission was staged, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is pretty gung ho about being his country's first man sent to space ...