Politics Jul 08 WATCH: State Department holds daily briefing following French and Iranian elections The U.S. State Department called the Iranian election “not free or fair" and noted that “a significant number of Iranians chose not to participate at all.”…
World Jul 08 Destruction in Gaza pushed Hamas to soften cease-fire demands, several officials say Several officials in the Middle East and the U.S. believe the level of devastation in Gaza likely pushed Hamas to soften its demands for a cease-fire.
World Jul 06 Reformist Pezeshkian elected president of Iran in runoff vote, defeating hard-liner Jalili Pezeshkian's win still sees Iran at a delicate moment, with tensions high in the Mideast over the Israel-Hamas war, Iran's advancing nuclear program, and a looming election in the United States that could put any chance of a detente between Tehran…
World Jul 05 Iranians vote in presidential runoff between hard-liner Jalili and reformist Pezeshkian Iran was holding a runoff presidential election Friday pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker, though both men earlier struggled to convince a skeptical public to cast ballots in the first round that saw the lowest turnout in the…
World Jul 03 Who is Saeed Jalili, the hard-line former negotiator seeking Iran’s presidency? Hard-line Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili may have been Tehran's top nuclear negotiator for years, but he won no plaudits from Western diplomats sitting across the table as he repeatedly lectured them on everything while offering nothing.
World Jul 01 Iran, Syria and North Korea accused of providing support for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in U.S. lawsuit The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, seeks at least $4 billion in damages for “a coordination of extrajudicial killings, hostage takings, and related horrors for which the defendants provided material support and resources.”…
World Jun 29 Iranian reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili head to runoff presidential election Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.
World Jun 28 Amid rising tensions in Mideast, polls close in Iran’s presidential election after hard-liner’s death The race’s sole reformist candidate vowed to seek “friendly relations” with the West in an effort to energize supporters in a vote beset by apathy. Voters faced a choice Friday between hard-line candidates and the little-known Masoud Pezeshkian.
World Jun 27 Two candidates drop out in final hours of Iran presidential election The two withdrawals leave four other candidates still in the race. Analysts broadly see the race as a three-way contest.
World Jun 26 Iran renews headscarf crackdown as presidential vote looms The renewed headscarf crackdown in Iran comes nearly two years since mass protests over the death Mahsa Amini after she was detained for not wearing a scarf to authorities' liking.