What we know about Iranian president Raisi鈥檚 helicopter crash
Iranian media said on Monday that Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi had died after his helicopter crashed in a mountainous region of the country.....
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Iran confirms death of president Raisi, 8 others in helicopter crash
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi was confirmed dead on Monday after search and rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western mountain region, sparking mourning in the Islamic republic...
Iran initiates intense search as helicopter carrying President Raisi goes missing
Iran was thrown into uncertainty Sunday as search and rescue teams scoured a fog-shrouded mountain area after President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter went missing in what state media described as an 鈥榓ccident鈥�.
Iran president鈥檚 helicopter in 鈥榓ccident鈥�
A helicopter carrying Iran鈥檚 president Ebrahim Raisi was involved in 鈥榓n accident鈥� amid poor weather conditions on Sunday, state media reported, with a search underway and...
Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies
Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further...
Iran and Israel need to talk
IT鈥橲 now been about four weeks since Iranian missiles filled Israeli skies, as humanity held its breath for nuclear war and possible extinction. If that strikes you as hyperbole, consider this: Had Israel suffered great damage, the war could have gone nuclear...
Rasoulof urges global support for colleagues
Film director Mohammad Rasoulof, who has secretly fled Iran for an undisclosed location in Europe, on Tuesday urged the world film community to...
India, Iran sign 10yr agreement to develop port project
India and Iran on Monday signed a 10-year contract to develop and equip the strategic Chabahar port in Iran as India seeks to grow trade in west and central Asia.....
Conservatives tighten grip on Iran parliament
Iran鈥檚 conservatives and ultra-conservatives clinched more seats in a partial rerun of the country鈥檚 parliamentary elections, official results showed...
Iran jails filmmaker Rasoulof
An Iranian court has sentenced prominent filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to jail time for 鈥榗ollusion against national security鈥�, his lawyer Babak Paknia said Wednesday...
UN atomic chief urges Iran to take 鈥榗oncrete鈥� steps for cooperation
UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi, visiting Iran on Tuesday, urged the country to adopt 鈥榗oncrete鈥� measures to bolster cooperation on its nuclear programme and...
IAEA chief in Iran as concern grows over nuclear activity
UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Iran on Monday, where he is expected to speak at a conference and meet officials for talks on...
Iran slaps sanctions on US, UK over Israel support
Iran announced on Thursday sanctions on several American and British individuals and entities for supporting Israel in its war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas...
Hezbollah says fires drones, guided missiles at Israel
Lebanon鈥檚 Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said on Saturday that it had targeted northern Israel with drones and guided missiles after cross-border Israeli strikes killed three people, including two of its members....
Iran to free crew of seized Portugal-flagged ship
Iran said on Saturday it would release the crew members of a Portuguese-flagged ship that its forces seized this month in the Gulf.
UN denounces 鈥榤ore serious鈥� Iran crackdown on women without veils
The United Nations said on Friday that it was concerned by reports of new efforts to track and punish Iranian women, some as young as 15, who refuse to...
Iran president slates West in Sri Lanka visit
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi inaugurated a power and irrigation project in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, but arrived in the country without his interior minister, who is...
Iran: last nation standing
BY NOT responding to decades of Israel鈥檚 provocations with an attack on Israeli soil, Iran displayed patience. The Islamic Republic rulers realised the provocations were becoming harsher, more damaging, and without stopping; it was time...
Iran retaliation
ON THE night of April 13, Iran attacked Israel for the first time in history with drones and missiles. Israel claimed that Iran had launched 170 drones, more than 309 cruise missiles and 120 ballistic missiles. Iran did not specify the...
Iran president arrives in Sri Lanka, inaugurates power, irrigation project
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Sri Lanka on Wednesday and inaugurated a power and irrigation project, unaccompanied by his interior minister who is being sought for arrest over a deadly 1994 bombing...
Iran鈥檚 strategic patience is spent
BY ALL accounts Iran鈥檚 retaliatory attack on Israel was unprecedented. It wasn鈥檛 US 鈥榮hock and awe鈥� but it was massive, sophisticated and dazzlingly theatrical...
Iran footballer suspended for embracing female fan
A goalkeeper with one of Iran's top football clubs has been suspended after he embraced a woman supporter during a championship match, sports daily Khabar Varzeshi reported on Monday.
Iran鈥檚 president in Pakistan to mend ties after January strikes
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi held talks with Pakistani leader Shebaz Sharif in Islamabad on Monday, in what experts said was a 鈥榮ignificant鈥� visit aimed at mending ties after the neighbours traded deadly cross-border strikes earlier this year...
Iranians make first umrah pilgrimage since Saudi ties restored
Iranian Muslims travelled on Monday to Saudi Arabia for umrah, a year-round pilgrimage they had been barred from for almost a decade over a rift between Tehran and Riyadh, Iranian state media said...
Khamenei praises 鈥榮uccess鈥� of military after Israel attack
Iran鈥檚 supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised the country鈥檚 armed forces for their 鈥榮uccess鈥� in his first public comments since Tehran launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel last week...
Iran, Israel appear to pull back from brink of war
Iran has dismissed as akin to child鈥檚 play the reported Israeli retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike, as both sides on Saturday appeared to...
Politics of self-defence
ISRAEL鈥橲 April 1 attack on Iran鈥檚 diplomatic compound in Damascus 鈥� which killed senior Iranian military commanders 鈥� was a clear and unprecedented...
Global calls for calm after Israeli strike on Iran
World leaders appealed for calm on Friday after reported Israeli retaliation against Iran added to months of tense spillover from the war in Gaza, with...
Iran blasts rattle global stocks
Reports Israel had carried out retaliatory strikes against Iran rattled markets on Friday, with oil prices briefly surging and equities...
