World Apr 05 Iran's currency falls to new record low against U.S. dollar as tensions run high Iran’s rial currency traded Saturday at a record low against the U.S. dollar as the country returned to work after a long holiday, costing over 1 million rials for a single greenback as tensions between Tehran and Washington likely will push it…
World Feb 05 Iran welcomes Trump's move to cut foreign aid and hints it's ready for nuclear negotiations Iran’s government seems to be welcoming decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to assassinate.
World Nov 06 Iran's currency drops to a record low as Trump clinches the U.S. presidency The rial traded on Wednesday at 703,000 rials to the dollar. In 2015, at the time of Iran's nuclear deal with world powers, it was at 32,000 to $1.
World Oct 31 Locked in conflict and hammered by sanctions, Iran wary over U.S. election result America’s presidential election comes just after Iran marks the 45th anniversary of 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis. For many, tensions between Tehran and Washington feel just as high as they did then.
World Sep 22 Dozens of workers killed by explosion inside a coal mine in eastern Iran An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country’s history as others remained missing hours after the blast.
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 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 May 10 As more women defy hijab laws, Iran's government pushes back More women are choosing not to wear the mandatory headscarf, or the hijab, publicly in Iran.