Tehran, Iran – AFP/AA Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday won Iran’s runoff presidential election against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, state media reported. Officials have so far counted more than 30 million votes, out of which Pezeshkian garnered over 16 million and Jalili more than 13 million, according to result...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s top vetting body has approved six candidates for the presidential election slated for June 28. Among the candidates approved by the Guardian Council are former Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, two high-profile conservative political figures. Others in the r...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US on Thursday boycotted a UN tribute to the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died earlier this month in a helicopter crash. “The United States will not attend today’s United Nations tribute event for President Raisi in any capacity,” Nate Evans, spokesman for the US mission to the UN wrote [&he...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran’s army has so far found no evidence of criminal activity in the helicopter crash that killed the country’s president Ebrahim Raisi and seven others, state media reported. The 63-year-old died on Sunday after his helicopter went down in the country’s mountainous northwest while returning from a da...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Monday offered condolences after the president of Iran died in a helicopter crash and said it saw no immediate security impact from Ebrahim Raisi’s death. “The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Ministe...
Washington, United States – AFP Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had a “lot of blood on his hands”, the White House said on Monday despite Washington offering condolences after his death in a helicopter crash. “This was a man who had a lot of blood on his hands,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, noted for his conservative position, became Iran’s foreign minister in August 2021, after Mohammad Javad Zarif, whom he had previously served as deputy for three years. President Ebrahim Raisi, Amir-Abdollahian and their companions were declared dead after their helicopter crashed in northwestern...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Known as a jurist and religious figure, the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was born on December 14, 1960, in Mashhad. Following the 1979 revolution, he began his career as a prosecutor in 1981. Rising swiftly in his position, Raisi became Deputy Prosecutor General of Tehran at the young age of 25. […]
ANKARA (AA/AFP ) – Tehran on Monday confirmed the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials in a helicopter crash in the country’s northwestern province. Iranian Deputy President for Executive Affairs Mohsen Mansouri said in a statement on his X that all on board, including ...
Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has warned against any “reckless” Israeli retaliation to Tehran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack, as world leaders urged restraint. Iran launched its first-ever direct attack on Israeli territory, marking a major escalation of the ...
