Iranians were voting on Friday in a snap election to replace the late president Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash last month. The election comes as public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East. Voters face a choice […]
A snap election called after a deadly helicopter crash. A candidate promising a different approach both at home and abroad. And suddenly there’s an element of suspense and unpredictability in Iran, as voters go to the polls to choose a new president. Elections in the Islamic Republic are tightly-controlled affairs – the candidates are all […]
With just a week remaining before a presidential election, Iranians are divided over whether voting will address pressing economic issues and mandatory hijab laws. Iranians head to the polls on June 28 to choose from six candidates — five conservatives and a relative reformist — to succeed Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash […]
STORY: :: Iranians say they will ‘get through the tough times’ as they mourn the late President Ebrahim Raisi :: Raisi died in a helicopter crash while crossing mountains in heavy fog :: May 20, 2024 :: Tehran, Iran UNIDENTIFIED MAN :: “Iran will definitely get through this, we have experienced tougher times. He is […]
By Paul Grant and Jonathan Stempel WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Tuesday announced criminal charges and sanctions against four Iranians over an alleged multi-year cyber campaign targeting more than one dozen American companies, the Treasury Department and the State Department said. Sanctions were also announced against two companies, Mehrsam Andisheh Saz Nik […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Monday that it was not aware of any Iranian deaths in the recent U.S. strikes against Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria. The United States launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Friday against more than 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and militias it backs […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish appeals court on Tuesday upheld guilty verdicts for three members of an Iranian separatist group convicted of promoting terror in Iran and gathering information for an unnamed Saudi intelligence service. The three were arrested in February 2020 in the town of Ringsted, 60 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of the […]