Ali Akbar Salehi, who helped negotiate 2015 deal, says US risks upsetting balance of power in Middle East The head of Irans atomic energy organisation, one of the architects of Writing in the Guardian, Ali Akbar Salehi said lavish arms purchases by regional actors a reference to the Saudi purchase of $100bn of US arms […]
Hassan Rouhani questions political legitimacy of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after supreme leader embarrassed president at high-profile meeting Tensions are mounting between Irans supreme leader and the countrys president after the latters landslide victory in last months election. video circulating online of that moment shows the audience bursting into laughter while Rouhani smiles uncomfortably. Khamenei continued: […]
Iranian plans to secure ground routes across Iraq and Syria and being shored up by proxies driving Isis from the region The town of Baaj is deserted and broken. Its streets are blocked by overturned cars, its shops are shuttered and the iron gates of its ravaged homes groan in a scorching wind. Amid the […]
Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide bombings and gun attacks in Tehran that killed 17 people Iranian authorities have arrested seven people suspected of helping militants involved in this weeks attacks in the capital Tehran, according to a judiciary official. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the
Mohammad Javad Zarif hits back at the US presidents comments on the suicide bombing which has been claimed by Islamic State Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday that US President Donald Trumps reaction to the deadly Islamic State group attacks in Tehran was repugnant. Repugnant WH [White House] statement… as Iranians counter […]
One guard killed in attack on parliament in Tehran while several injured at shrine to late leader, according to news agencies The Iranian parliament and the shrine of Irans revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, have been targeted in simultaneous attacks in Tehran, state media has reported. One guard was killed in the parliament shooting, the […]
Just before 9am, the interior ministry said Rouhani was ahead, with 14 million votes to Ebrahim Raisis 10 million, with over half of votes counted Iranian President Hassan Rouhani looks set to claim re-election with a landslide victory, in a ringing endorsement of his efforts to re-engage with the West and offer greater freedoms at […]
The choice of a new president is being seen as one of the most important in recent years and will determine Tehrans future engagement Irans presidential elections: everything you need to know Iranians headed to the polls on Friday to vote in a bitterly contested presidential election that is expected to set their countrys direction […]
Iranians will go to the polls on Friday with the economy, diplomacy and inequality on their minds. They may also be laying the groundwork for who succeeds Ayatollah Khamenei as supreme leader As Tehrans notorious traffic slowed, the waiting campaigners pounced, pushing posters with the smiling face of Irans president, Hassan Rouhani, through the open […]
New land corridor to move 140 miles south to avoid buildup of US forces assembled in north-east Syria to fight Isis Iran has changed the course of a Tehran’s route to the sea Throughout the war with the terror group, and for several years earlier, Iran has been attempting to carve out areas of influence […]