Jul 16 AP report: Secret Service boosted Trump protection after Iranian threat By Colleen Long, Aamer Madhani, Associated Press The additional resources did not prevent Saturday's attack at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania that left Trump injured to the ear, killed one rallygoer and severely injured two more when a 20-year-old with an AR-style rifle opened fire from a… Continue reading
Jul 08 WATCH: State Department holds daily briefing following French and Iranian elections By Jon Gambrell, Amir Vahdat, Associated Press 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.”… Continue reading
Jul 06 Watch 2:18 News Wrap: Thousands in northern Ukraine lose power after Russian drone attack In our news wrap Saturday, Iran has a new president-elect after a runoff vote, Russian drone attacks hit a vital energy facility in northern Ukraine, Hamas dropped a key demand in cease-fire negotiations with Israel, Trump is distancing himself from… Continue watching
Jul 06 Watch 5:49 Iran just elected its first reformist president in two decades. What's next? By Ali Rogin, Harry Zahn Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian will ascend to the Iranian presidency in a delicate moment for the Islamic Republic, both on the world stage and within its borders. He faces a government still largely controlled by hard-line clerics, tension with the West… Continue watching
Jul 06 Reformist Pezeshkian elected president of Iran in runoff vote, defeating hard-liner Jalili By Jon Gambrell, Amir Vahdat, Associated Press 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… Continue reading
Jul 05 Iranians vote in presidential runoff between hard-liner Jalili and reformist Pezeshkian By Jon Gambrell, Nasser Karimi, Associated Press 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… Continue reading
Jul 03 Who is Saeed Jalili, the hard-line former negotiator seeking Iran's presidency? By Jon Gambrell, Amir Vahdat, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Jul 01 Iran, Syria and North Korea accused of providing support for Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in U.S. lawsuit By Jennifer Peltz, Jon Gambrell, Associated Press 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.”… Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch 2:33 News Wrap: Iran's presidential election heads to runoff vote next week In our news wrap Saturday, Iran will hold a runoff election after no candidate won a majority in Friday’s presidential election, 10 Ukrainian civilians were released from Russian captivity after mediation led by the Vatican, a man died after attacking… Continue watching
Jun 29 Iranian reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili head to runoff presidential election By Jon Gambrell, Amir Vahdat, Associated Press 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. Continue reading