World & Nation
Iran election: Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won the Islamic Republic’s runoff presidential vote, beating hard-liner Saeed Jalili.
July 6, 2024
Iran held a runoff presidential election pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker.
July 5, 2024
Iran will hold a runoff to replace the hard-line president killed in a helicopter crash. Some see low turnout in initial election as a protest.
June 29, 2024
Iranians voted in a snap election to replace Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May 19 helicopter crash, amid tensions in the Middle East and war in Gaza.
June 28, 2024
The lawyer for one of Iran’s popular hip-hop artists and a critic of the regime says the country’s Supreme Court has overturned his death sentence.
June 22, 2024
Iran-backed groups in the Middle East say thousands of their fighters are offering to come to Lebanon to join with the militant Hezbollah group.
June 23, 2024
Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, has been sentenced to another year in prison over her activism
June 19, 2024
Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a firebrand populist known for the crackdown that followed his disputed 2009 reelection, is barred from running.
June 9, 2024
Ahmadinejad has registered as a possible candidate for the June 28 presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position.
June 2, 2024
Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, who has close ties to the country’s Revolutionary Guard, has catapulted to the front of the bevy of candidates.
June 3, 2024