Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has voted in the presidential election in Iran. Khamenei urged the nation to participate actively in the vote to “prove the correctness and honesty of the system of the Islamic Republic.” The religious leader cast his vote in a high-security zone in the centre of Tehran before speaking to […]
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has once again praised Islamist groups for their conflict with Israel. “An army that claims to be one of the strongest in the world has failed in its own country,” Khamenei told thousands of supporters in Tehran on Monday. The Gaza conflict has put the “Zionist regime on a […]
TEL AVIV, Israel—The May 19 death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi brought renewed attention to Iran’s looming succession crisis. After more than three decades of consolidating his own power as Iran’s final decision-maker, 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may have laid the groundwork for regime infighting and popular unrest in the event of his […]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has named First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber as acting president in the wake of Ebrahim Raisi‘s death in a helicopter crash. Khamenei also ordered five days of national mourning for Raisi, the hardliner who had held the presidency since 2021. Khamenei described Raisi as “tireless” and said the Iranian […]
An advisor to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Israeli diplomatic missions around the world could become targets of retaliatory attacks in response to the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria blamed on Israel. “The [anti-Israeli] resistance front is ready for all possible retaliation scenarios and no Israeli embassy worldwide is safe from […]
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened Israel with retaliation after two Iranian generals were killed in a suspected Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus. “The malicious regime will be punished by our brave men,” he said on Tuesday in a statement a day after the strike. “We will make sure that they […]