In a complaint filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri, aka Turkcell, the Turkish mobile media giant, alleges that MTN Group Ltd, Africa’s largest mobile operator, bribed Iranians, sold South African votes at the IAEA and UN, and otherwise prostituted South African foreign policy to oust Turkcell from its contract in Iran and gain the lucrative market for itself.

How has the president managed to build such a formidable power base? Who are the key members of his coterie, and will they enable their benefactor to outsmart the supreme leader to become Iran's effective ruler?

Iran's nuclear weapons program willbe high on the agenda for President Obama.

American presence in Iraq will continue to be vital to achieving a just, accountable, representative government, especially as Iranian leaders actively attempt to undermine the democratic political process that has emerged there since 2008.

Why does Iran consider Afghanistan so important? What are Iran's strategic aims in Afghanistan?

The delusion that one can settle our little disagreements with the Islamic Republic, if only the right people sit around the right conference table, has seized every administration since Carter.

Iraqi troops asserted control over the Basra neighborhoods that had been Sadrist "strongholds" and continue to make progress.

While the United States has focused its attention on Iranian activities in the greater Middle East, Iran has worked assiduously to expand its influence in Latin America and Africa.