In The Days

Members of the revolutionary guard attend the anniversary ceremony of Iran’s Islamic Revolution at the Khomeini shrine in the Behesht Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran, February 1, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/Raheb Homavandi

Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces was quoted by a semi-official news agency as saying on Tuesday.

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David Degner for The Wall Street Journal
Essam El-Haddad, a foreign-policy adviser.

CAIRO—Last month, the Muslim Brotherhood received a phone call from the International Monetary Fund. Egypt was hurtling toward economic collapse, and IMF officials had decided they couldn’t push ahead with a $3.2 billion loan without buy-in from the country’s new political heavyweights.

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A Moroccan man was arrested near the U.S. Capitol on Friday wearing a vest he believed was full of al Qaeda-supplied explosives and charged in an attempted suicide bombing of Congress, the Justice Department said.

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Defense Minister Says New U.S. Proposal to Cut Local Troop, Police Forces Risks Endangering Nation

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Iran has begun mass production of an anti-ship cruise missile, state television’s website said on Saturday.

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A teacher and volunteer from the Muslim Brotherhood revises lessons for free with school pupils before their exams, at a mosque in Alexandria January 20, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/Asmaa Waguih

The Muslim Brotherhood won by far the biggest share of seats allocated to party lists in Egypt’s first freely-elected parliament in decades, final results confirmed, giving it a major role in drafting the country’s new constitution.

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Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) gestures to the media next to Cuba’s Vice president Esteban Lazo at Havana’s Jose Marti Airport January 11, 2012.

Photo by: Reuters

Ahmadinejad’s Latin America tour seen as effort side-step international tensions and find new markets as the European Union considers an outright embargo on Iranian oil.

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The Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday it had won at least 41 percent of the seats in Egypt’s lower house of parliament, with Islamists of various stripes occupying almost two thirds of the assembly so far.

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Iran is laying the groundwork for making nuclear weapons someday, but is not yet building a bomb and called for continued diplomatic and economic pressure to persuade Tehran not to take that step.

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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party holding a campaign rally

As Islamists emerge from elections as the country’s leading political force – to the alarm of democracy campaigners and regional autocrats alike – western governments will have to adapt to a power shift they have long sought to prevent

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