A report by the Telegraph purports to have solid evidence that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has Jewish roots. The proof of this is the photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 which the site states "clearly displays the evidence."

Hundreds of Iranian protesters picketed the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York on Wednesday, prior to his speech. They vowed not to accept Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as their president. You may recall the contentiousness and arguments over the legitimacy of the Iranian elections.

Wednesday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term as Iranian president. This comes nearly two months after a disputed election triggered massive violent street protests, and two days after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed him..

In a ceremony on Monday, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term as president. However, the event was skipped by opposition leaders and critics of the disputed election.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responding to CNN's Christian Amanpour, declined to guarantee the safety of his rival Mir Hossein Moussavi.

The newly re-elected president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking of his victoy speach compared the street protests of his opponents to football match and said "It doesn't matter," reports CNN.

Iran's government has declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the decisive winner as as result of the June 12 election. But Ahmadinejad's chief challenger, reformist Mir Hossein Musavi, has strongly protested what he described as "obvious violations" in the ballot.

It easy to early to make predictions about the 2009 Iran election results, but conflicting information is already coming out of Tehran. So far the result of the 2009 Iran elections is that both candidates have declared victory. However, more news agencies say Mahmound Ahmadinejad has a lead.

Opinion polls in Iran suggest that two reformist candidates could pose serious challenges to incumbent President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in this week's voting. But opinion polls in Iran are notoriously inaccurate, particularly when trying to predict election results for the entire country.

MSNBC is reporting on television that Senator Hillary Clinton will pull out of the Ahmadienjad protest rally held outside of the U.N.,due to the invitation of Governor Sarah Palin.

Iran is prepared to try and reach an agreement with any country over its nuclear program, but will not stop its development of peaceful atomic energy, the Islamic Republic's president said on Wednesday.

Two days after a US intelligence report stated Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program, US President George W Bush is calling on Tehran to come clean about it.