Iran in photos

Outside the Iranian Embassy in London, Amnesty International in April protests Iran’s plan to execute Delara Darabi, who was convicted as a juvenile in what rights groups said was an unfair trial.  (Leon Neal / AFP/Getty Images)

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center front, tours the new factory in Esfahan that will produce uranium fuel pellets for use at the Arak research reactor.   (Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, talks with a boy during a rally in Tehran this month marking the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Ahmadinejad is seeking reelection in the June 12 balloting.  (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)

With Iranian flags in the background, Saam Sohrab, left, plays football with Bayan Zamani, 10, during an event at William Mason Regional Park in Irvine marking Sizdeh-Bedar, a Persian New Year celebration, at William Mason Regional Park in Irvine.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

An Iranian shopper makes her way near a florist north of Tehran during Nowruz, a 12-day Zoroastrian holiday that begins today. Iranians typically prepare for the Nowruz, which marks the new year and the start of spring, by cleaning their homes and buying new clothes and flowers.  (Begrouz Mehri / AFP/Getty Images)

Under an anti-drug mural, two Iranian police officers pour fuel on seized narcotics, before setting them on fire in a ceremony in Tehran.  (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, greets U.N. official Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann in Tehran, where an economic summit is being held this week.   (ATTA KENARE, AFP/Getty Images)

An Iranian shoe shop owner in the bazaar in Tabriz, Azerbaijan province in Iran. Even as Persian New Year (March 20) approaches, usually a busy shopping season, merchants are seeing a slowdown because of high prices.  (Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA)

An woman grieves during a burial ceremony in Tehran for five unknown Iranian soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.  (Hasan Sarbakhshian / Associated Press)

Marchers display photos of Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, left, and current supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a celebration marking the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.  (Hasan Sarbakhshian / Associated Press)

Iranians burn a U.S. flag during anniversary celebrations in Tehran. The U.S. has not had formal diplomatic relations with Iran since 1980.  (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)

Schoolgirls with banners and Iranian flags joined thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-U.S. slogans in Tehran.  (Behrouz Mehri / AFP / Getty Images)

Backed by blow-ups of Iran’s current and former leaders, Ayatollah Ali Khamanei at left and the late Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, photographers capture images of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the revolution that brought Khomeini to power.  (Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA)

A model of Iran’s satellite-launching Safir 2 rocket was a centerpiece for an anniversary rally in Tehran’s Azadi Square.  (Vahid Salemi / Associated Press)

In a sermon before Friday prayers, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president of Iran, urged President Obama to avoid Bush’s approach on Iran’s nuclear program.  (Behrouz Mehri, AFP/Getty Images)