The only released prisoner of three Americans detained in Iran since last year, Sarah Shourd, met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday in New York "in order to clear up any misunderstanding that led to our detention."

The U.S. delegation to the United Nations summit walked out during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech today, as they seem to do every year. Today's reason? Ahmadinejad started talking about 9/11 being an inside job. God, he's annoying. [Image: Getty]

Page six reports that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brought his own personal chef to New York for this week's UN General Assembly. Apparently not a good chef: His meals "make the whole hotel stink like hell," according to a source.

[Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad couldn't get by without his trusty earpiece today when he visited the United Nations for the start of the three-day Millennium Development Goals summit, which focuses on global poverty. Image via Getty]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after freeing American captive Sarah Shourd on $500,000 "bail," is asking President Obama to reciprocate by freeing eight Iranians held in U.S. custody: "How would you know those Iranians are criminals? Are you a judge?"

Sarah Shourd, one of the three Americans held captive in Iran, is on her way back to the U.S. today, and is scheduled to speak in New York tomorrow as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives for the UN General Assembly.

Iran says one of the three detained American hikers, Sarah Shourd, will be released if $500,000 bail is posted.

Iran's really had a hard time deciding whether it will stone Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to death for adultery. Well, they've formally suspended the stoning! She still faces 99 lashes. She "might still be executed by hanging." But no stones! [NYT]

Fidel Castro wishes his fellow American enemy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would cool it with his anti-Semitism, he tells the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg during a rare, interesting interview. Ahmadinejad probably won't listen. But nice of Castro to try! [Image: AP]

After the Times of London published a purported picture of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, she now faces 99 lashes for having her picture taken unveiled. Her stoning sentence has been suspended, though.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei wants a Twitter fight with Israel. (via)

The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance already outlawed mullets, but the most recent targets of its anti-Western crusade are much cuter and more cuddly: puppies and kitties. Yes, there is a fatwa against pets.

Last Sunday a Thai woman was stopped at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport when security screeners saw x-ray images of bones among a stash of stuffed tiger toys in her luggage. Inside they found a drugged two-month old tiger cub.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today showed off his newest weapon — an unmanned Karrar bomber drone, or The Ambassador of Death. But, according to Ahmadinejad, the drone is not just for killing, it carries a "message of peace and friendship."

Iran, aided by Russian technicians, is about to open a nuclear reactor, to produce energy. Russia says it's implemented safeguards to ensure fuel can't be diverted for possible weapons programs. Still: Let's translate this into Drudge Report-ese, shall we?

Former UN ambassador and current bloodthirsty lunatic John Bolton urges Israel to bomb Iran now.

The Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, appeared on state-run television to denounce her asylum-seeking attorney and admitted she knew beforehand about her husband's murder. Another lawyer says Mohammadi-Ashtiani has been tortured.

Israel is ready and anxious to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities soon. At least that's the claim in a lengthy new Atlantic piece, which puts the chances of a strike within the next year at "better than 50 percent."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an assassination attempt today when his motorcade was attacked with a grenade, according to Dubai's Al Arabiya, citing presidential sources. Iranian state-run Press TV denies the attack happened, blaming "foreign news sources" for false reports.

Cigarette smuggling is big business in Iran. And the most popular brand is Marlboro, which an Iranian official yesterday warned is "tainted with nuclear materials" as part of a sinister plot by producer Phillip Morris, "which is led by Zionists."