Iran OKs 6 candidates for presidential race, but again blocks Ahmadinejad
Iranโs Guardian Council on Sunday approved the countryโs hard-line speaker of parliament and five others to run in the countryโs June 28 presidential election following a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others.
Iran helicopter crash shows Tehran's reliance on an aging fleet as well as its challenges at home
While the cause of the May 19 helicopter crash that killed Iran's president and others remains unknown, the sudden death of the hard-line protรฉgรฉ of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has exposed the contradictions and challenges facing the countryโs Shiite theocracy.
Iran's hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for June 28 presidential election
Iranโs hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered as a possible candidate for the June 28 presidential election, seeking to regain the countryโs top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nationโs president and seven others.
UN tribute to Iran's late President Raisi marred by protests and European and US snubs
The U.N. General Assemblyโs tribute to Iranโs late president Ebrahim Raisi was snubbed by Western and East European nations amid protests against honoring a leader who was reviled for his crackdown on opponents.
Iran's supreme leader and proxy militias pray for late president and others dead in helicopter crash
Iranโs supreme leader and representatives of allied militia groups prayed over the coffins of the countryโs late president, foreign minister and other officials killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week.
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hard-line diplomat, dies in helicopter crash
Iranโs Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hard-liner close to the countryโs paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who confronted the West while also overseeing indirect talks with the U.S. over the countryโs nuclear program, has died.
The Latest | Iran's president, foreign minister and others die in helicopter crash
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the countryโs foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the countryโs northwest.
Helicopter crash that killed Iran's president and others could reverberate across the Middle East
The helicopter crash in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the countryโs foreign minister and other officials were killed is likely to reverberate across the Middle East, where Iranโs influence runs wide and deep.
Iran's president says US should ease sanctions to demonstrate it wants to return to nuclear deal
Iranโs President Ebrahim Raisi says that relations with the United States can move forward if the Biden administration demonstrates it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, and a first step should be easing sanctions.
Iran's president urges US to demonstrate it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal
Iranโs President Ebrahim Raisi says that his country will never give up its right โto have peaceful nuclear energyโ and urged the United States โto demonstrate in a verifiable fashionโ that it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal.
Iran unveils armed drone resembling America's MQ-9 Reaper and says it could potentially reach Israel
Iranโs Defense Ministry has unveiled a drone resembling Americaโs armed MQ-9 Reaper, claiming that the aircraft is capable of staying airborne for 24 hours and has the range to reach the country's archenemy Israel.
Iran morality police status unclear after 'closure' comment
An Iranian lawmaker has said that Iranโs government was โpaying attention to the peopleโs real demandsโ a day after a top official suggested that the countryโs unpopular morality police has been shut down following months of protests.
US urges UN court to toss out Iranian frozen assets case
The United States has urged the International Court of Justice to throw out a case brought by Iran seeking to claw back some $2 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets that the U.S. Supreme Court awarded to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked to Tehran.
Germany's Scholz sees no imminent nuclear deal with Iran
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has made clear that he doesnโt expect an agreement with Iran in the immediate future to restore Tehranโs tattered nuclear deal with world powers, though he said thereโs no reason for Iran not to sign up and European countries would remain โpatient.โ.
Biden administration responds to Iran's offer on nuke deal
The Biden administration says it has responded to Iranโs latest offer to resume its compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, but neither side is offering a definitive path to revive the agreement, which has been on life-support since former President Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018.
US, Iran inch closer to nuke deal but high hurdles remain
The Biden administration is expected to weigh in this week on Iranโs latest offer to resume its compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but neither side is offering a definitive path to revive the agreement, which has been on life-support since former President Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018.