Nation Topics - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | The Nation

Following the money in the Iran crisis.

As a dramatic showdown between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei sets the stage for elections next year, can the beleaguered reform movement make a comeback?

How Israel’s Gaza blockade and Washington’s sanctions policy helped keep the hardliners in power.

A dirty little secret is that virtually no one thinks sanctions can work as intended.

Obituaries for the Islamic Republic of Iran are premature.

Can the United States and Iran negotiate an end to the nuclear standoff?

The clampdown on street protests can't disguise huge fissures among the elite.

At the heart of the Green Wave sweeping Iran are the fearless young men and women who have few illusions about the complexity of the reforms they seek.

Neda Agha-Soltan has become a powerful and tragic icon of the new Iran--and an emblem of just how much women have lost in the thirty years of Islamic rule.

This president does not need to make threats to champion democracy.