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.
World Jun 25 Iran’s supreme leader calls for ‘maximum’ turnout in presidential election as he issues warning to reformist candidate Iran’s supreme leader issued a thinly veiled warning to the sole reformist candidate in the country’s upcoming presidential election.
World Jun 22 Another Houthi attack targets ship in Gulf of Aden as USS Eisenhower heads home An attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted a commercial ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden but apparently caused no damage, authorities said Saturday, in the latest strike on the shipping lane by the group.
World Jun 19 Hundreds died in intense heat during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, officials say Hundreds of people have died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced intense high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom.
World Jun 17 U.S. carrier captain says Houthis are trying to ‘inspire themselves through misinformation’ with false claims of hitting his ship The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy, but it’s still fighting — despite repeated false claims by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.