ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh spoke by phone with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on developments in Israel’s war on Gaza. Hamas said in a statement on its Telegram channel that Haniyeh called President Pezeshkian “to discuss political and field developments related to the genocidal war being waged by the (Israeli) occu...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States said Monday it did not expect policy changes from Iran after voters elected reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, and downplayed chances to resume dialogue. “We have no expectation that this election will lead to a fundamental change in Iran’s direction or its policies,”...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iranians cast their ballots Friday in a presidential election marked by a lone reformist’s bid to break through against a divided conservative field. Around 61 million Iranians were eligible to vote in the election called after the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last mont...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for high participation in the forthcoming snap presidential election, saying it “silences enemies.” Speaking to a gathering from different provinces in Tehran on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei said public participation in the election “brings...
Iran is formally indicting the US government and 73 American military officials for the 2020 drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani. According to Iranian state media, Tehran’s judiciary chief announced the 164-page indictment and urged the accused to appoint legal representatives for a public trial at the Tehran Criminal Cour...
Paris, France — AFP Frenchman Louis Arnaud has returned to Paris after his release from a more than 20-month prison stay in Iran. Activists and some Western governments, including France, accuse Iran of exercising a strategy of taking foreign nationals as “hostages” to pursue their interests. Arnaud was held in Iran in Septem...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah said it launched a series of attacks on Israeli military positions after state media reported Israel had stepped up its own strikes the night before. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, the situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border has remained tense. On Sat...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN held a ceremonial tribute for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died earlier this month in a helicopter crash. “President Raisi led Iran at a challenging time for the country, the region and globally,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told delegates at the UN General Assembly, where a minute o...
Stockholm, Sweden – AFP Sweden has alleged that Iran was recruiting members of Swedish criminal gangs, some of them children, as proxies to commit “acts of violence” against Israel and other states and groups in Sweden that Tehran considered a threat. These claims were made by Sweden’s intelligence agency on Thursday. T...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran’s aging helicopter fleet was pushed into the spotlight after a crash last week claimed the lives of erstwhile President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and seven others. An Anadolu correspondent compiled the information about the condition and maintenance of the helicopters in Iran’s military ...
