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How succession works in Iran and who will be the country's next supreme leaderThe death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has triggered questions about who will lead the country next and how the transiti...
Iran protests enter third week: Death toll surges to 116 amid crackdown and 2,600 detained, say activistsNationwide protests against Iran's theocracy have entered their third week, with demonstrations in Tehran and Mashhad. Activists report at ...
Chilling video from Iran: Woman bleeds from mouth, says she 'has been dead for 47 years' as anti-government protests explodeAs protests across Iran against the government have intensified, a viral video shows an Iranian woman defying the Iranian regime and has be...
Militant attack on Pakistani border leaves 5 Iranian security forces dead, state media saysFive Iranian paramilitary forces were killed in a militant attack near the Pakistani border in Saravan city, Sistan and Baluchistan provinc...
Reformist Pezeshkian wins Iran's presidential runoff election, besting hard-liner JaliliPezeshkian promised no radical changes to Iran's Shiite theocracy in his campaign and long has held Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a...
Iran seesawing vote results put race between reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and hard-liner Saeed JaliliEarly results from Iran's presidential election show a close contest between reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and hard-liner Saeed Jalili, with ...
Iran's supreme leader to preside over funeral for president and others killed in helicopter crashAyatollah Ali Khamenei will begin the service at Tehran University, the caskets of the dead draped in Iranian flags with their pictures on ...
Who will become Iran President? When is Presidential Election?Iran President Ebrahim Raisi is dead and now the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei holds the key as a Presidential election h...
Iran's supreme leader tacitly acknowledges Tehran hit little in its massive attack on IsraelAyatollah Ali Khamenei avoids discussing the effectiveness of Tehran's attack on Israel, omitting details on the Israeli retaliatory strike...
Niece of Iran's Supreme Leader urges world to cut ties with Tehran over unrestA video of a statement by Farideh Moradkhani, an engineer whose late father was a prominent opposition figure married to Khamenei's sister,...
Niece of Iran's Supreme Leader urges world to cut ties with Tehran over unrest -online videoA video of a statement by Farideh Moradkhani, an engineer whose late father was a prominent opposition figure married to Khamenei's sister,...
How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into warGrand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani said nothing in public about the unrest that erupted on Iraq's streets. But government officials and Shi'ite...
Iran cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour who founded Hezbollah, survived book bomb, diesA close ally of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Mohtashamipour in the 1970s formed alliances with Muslim militant g...
Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 protestsIranian state television and the state-run IRNA news agency said that Ruhollah Zam was hanged early Saturday morning.
Iran surpasses 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus: Health MinistryIran suffered the region's first major outbreak, seeing top politicians, health officials and religious leaders in its Shiite theocracy str...
'Virus at Iran's gates': How Tehran failed to halt outbreakDays of denials gave the virus time to spread in Iran as it marked the 41st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution with rallies and the...
'ISIS will benefit' from the Iran nuclear deal"ISIS will benefit a lot from this deal; segments of the Sunni community in the region will see Iran as having won and brought in from the ...