Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader?Mojtaba Khamenei has been chosen by Iran's Assembly of Experts to succeed his late father as supreme leader. This mid-ranking cleric, who h...
09 Mar, 2026, 10.37 AM IST
Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, frontrunner to be Iran's supreme leader?Mojtaba Khamenei is emerging as the leading candidate to become Iran's next supreme leader. He has cultivated strong ties with the Revoluti...
04 Mar, 2026, 07.51 PM IST
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in US-Israeli airstrikes; Tehran declares 40 days of mourning and warns of ‘heaviest’ retaliationIran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in coordinated US and Israeli airstrikes, Iranian state media confirmed. The n...
01 Mar, 2026, 09.04 AM IST
Days after Raisi’s death, Iran votes for a new PresidentIranians voted for a new president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, choosing from a tightly controlled group of ...
29 Jun, 2024, 12.31 AM IST
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Amirabdollahian dead in helicopter crashIranian President Ebrahim Raisi, 63, and his foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were confirmed dead in a helicopter crash. Rescue tea...
22 May, 2024, 10.36 AM IST
Iranian President Raisi's memorial muted amid public discontentThousands mourned President Ebrahim Raisi in Tabriz after a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border. State TV showed live images of bla...
22 May, 2024, 12.38 AM IST
In divided Iran, president's death met by muted mourning and furtive celebrationIran declared five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi, who, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, died in a helic...
21 May, 2024, 07.41 AM IST
Lashkar activist's killing in Karachi keeps ISI guessing in PakistanThe striking similarity between these two killings of terror operatives has prompted Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, often accused...
29 Sep, 2023, 01.08 PM IST
Bihar village cries for justice as young cleric killed in Gurugram attackFollowing the death of a young Naib Imam of a Gurugram mosque in a mob attack, his village in Bihar sought justice on Tuesday. Cries for "J...
02 Aug, 2023, 01.09 AM IST
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,...
27 Nov, 2022, 09.14 PM IST
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,...
27 Nov, 2022, 05.01 PM IST
Defiant Iranians rally again in protests fuelled by 'brutal' crackdownSecurity forces have struggled to contain the women-led protests that have evolved into a broader campaign to end the Islamic republic foun...
28 Oct, 2022, 03.53 PM IST
Iranians keep up the heat on leaders with protests, strikesAn Iranian state coroner's report denied that Mahsa Amini had died due to blows to the head and limbs while in police custody and linked he...
08 Oct, 2022, 11.12 PM IST
Violent unrest continues in Iran, state TV suggests 26 deadAlthough the scope of the protests across some dozen Iranian cities and towns remains unclear, the movement represents the widest unrest si...
23 Sep, 2022, 07.18 PM IST
What kept Iran protests going after first spark?The death of Mahsa Amini, who had been picked up by Iran's morality police for her allegedly loose headscarf, or hijab, has triggered darin...
21 Sep, 2022, 05.00 PM IST
Will curb religious extremism to protect people: ChinaDefending the crackdown against Islamic militants in the restive Xinjiang province, China said suppression of religious extremism is a "jus...
24 Sep, 2015, 01.27 PM IST
Afghan clerics uneasy as civil rights movement gains momentumPowerful religious leaders in Afghanistan are growing uneasy about the challenge to their authority posed by rare civil rights protests in ...
14 May, 2015, 05.26 PM IST