Iran

Hard-line former Iranian senior nuclear negotiator and candidate for the presidential election Saeed Jalili casts his ballot in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, on 28 June 2024. Photo: ISNA via AP
World+Biz

Iran to hold runoff election with reformist Pezeshkian, hard-liner Jalili after low-turnout vote

The election this coming Friday will pit reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian against the hard-line former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili

Presidential candidate Saeed Jalili votes at a polling station in a snap presidential election to choose a successor to Ebrahim Raisi following his death in a helicopter crash, in Tehran, Iran June 28, 2024. Photo: Stringer/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Middle East

Khamenei's protege Jalili edges ahead in tight Iran presidential race

Iranian men stand in a queue as they wait to vote at a polling station in a snap presidential election to choose a successor to Ebrahim Raisi following his death in a helicopter crash, in Tehran, Iran June 28, 2024.Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Middle East

Iranians vote in presidential election with limited choices

An Iranian woman votes at a polling station in a snap presidential election to choose a successor to Ebrahim Raisi following his death in a helicopter crash, in Tehran, Iran June 28, 2024.Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Politics

Iran begins voting in presidential election with limited choices

FILE PHOTO: Iran's and US flags are seen printed on paper in this illustration taken January 27, 2022. REUTERS
USA

US issues fresh sanctions against Iran over nuclear escalations

Iranians walk through Tehran Bazaar, in Tehran, Iran December 25, 2022. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo
Middle East

Iran election hopefuls struggle to offer fix for economic woes

Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili speaks during a campaign event in Tehran, Iran, June 24, 2024. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Middle East

Iran’s presidential election dominated by Khamenei loyalists

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L), who arrived to attend the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), meets with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, November 23, 2015. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin/File Photo
Europe

Moscow expects to sign new cooperation pact with Iran in 'very near future', RIA reports

A newspaper with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police" is seen in Tehran, Iran September 18, 2022. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS /File Photo
Middle East

For Iran's youth, legacy of 2022 clashes shapes presidential race

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi. Photo: Collected
Middle East

Iran top court overturns rapper Salehi's death sentence, lawyer says

FILE PHOTO: Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attend an IRGC ground forces military drill in the Aras area, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, October 17, 2022. IRGC/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

Canada declares Iran's Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group

The Iranian flag flutters outside the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria, 6 March 2023. Photo: Reuters
Middle East

Hospital fire kills 9 in northern iran

Johan Floderus, after being imprisoned in Iran, is reunited with his family at Arlanda Airport, in Stockholm, Sweden 15 June 2024. Photo: TT News Agency/Tom Samuelsson / Regeringkansliet via REUTERS
Europe

Sweden and Iran exchange prisoners in breakthrough deal