Iran coronavirus deaths jump to 26 as top officials, including vice president, become infected
The coronavirus epidemic in Iran has cost 26 lives, the health ministry announced Thursday, with a vice president becoming the latest top official to be infected as the spread appeared to accelerate. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a news conference that the tally of ...
Khamenei loyalists likely to tighten grip in Iran elections
Hard-liners are set to tighten control of Iran this week in a parliamentary election stacked in their favor, as the leadership closes ranks in a deepening confrontation with Washington. Big gains by security hawks would confirm the political demise of the country's pragmatist politicians, weakened ...
Trump plan for Mideast will die before he does, says Iran leader
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, predicted Wednesday that Donald Trump would outlive the U.S. president's controversial proposals for Israeli-Palestinian peace. "This plan will certainly not work and it will die before Trump," Khamenei told a gathering in Tehran to mark the February 1979 Islamic ...
Iran's Khamenei stands by Guard after unrest over downed plane
Iran's supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guard in a rare sermon on Friday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airliner triggered days of street protests. In his first Friday sermon in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also ...
Iran social media posts call for more protests after plane disaster
Iranian social media posts urged citizens to take to the streets for a fifth day on Wednesday, after public anger erupted following the belated admission by the authorities that they had shot down a passenger plane in error last week. Protesters, with students at the ...
Iran's supreme leader Wednesday strongly condemned deadly U.S. strikes on Iraq and warned his country was ready to confront threats after U.S. President Donald Trump issued one against the Islamic republic. "I and the government and the nation of Iran strongly condemn this American crime," ...
Iran curbs internet before possible new protests, reports say
Iran's authorities have restricted mobile internet access in several provinces, an Iranian news agency reported on Wednesday, a day before new protests were expected to kick off following calls for demonstrations on social media. Social media posts, along with some relatives of people killed in ...
Do whatever it takes: How Khamenei ordered crackdown on Iranian unrest
After days of protests across Iran last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared impatient. Gathering his top security and government officials together, he issued an order: Do whatever it takes to stop them. That order, confirmed by three sources close to the supreme leader's ...
Iran's President Rouhani claims victory over unrest that Amnesty says left at least 106 dead
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared on Wednesday that street unrest had been put down in a victory over foreign enemies, after a wave of violent demonstrations swept the country following a hike in fuel prices last week. Amnesty International said it had documented at least ...
Iran leader Khamenei backs gasoline price hike that led to deadly unrest
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, on Sunday threw his support behind a decision to hike gasoline prices, a move that sparked nationwide unrest in which he said "some lost their lives." Khamenei blamed "hooligans" for damaging property and said "all the centers of the ...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rules out entering into talks with U.S.
A day before the 40th anniversary of the hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday again ruled out negotiations with Washington. "Those who see negotiations with the U.S. as the solution to every problem are certainly ...
Khamenei tells Iran's Revolutionary Guard to develop advanced, modern weapons
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Sunday to develop more advanced and modern weapons, amid increasingly tense disputes with the United States and Gulf Arab states. Tensions in the Gulf have risen to new highs since May 2018, when the ...
