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Iran

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Middle East conflict
    Hizbollah warns Israel of war ‘without limits’ and threatens Cyprus

    Leader of militant group issues threat as fears grow of full-blown war across Lebanon’s southern border

    Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Reformist candidate Pezeshkian shakes up Iran presidential election

    Former health minister looks to upset odds after being chosen as one of six candidates for this month’s vote

    Masoud Pezeshkian
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Iran promotes hardliners as presidential candidates

    Guardian Council disqualifies prominent moderates but gives green light to one reformist MP

    Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Standard Chartered PLC
    StanChart’s Iran transactions subject of fresh whistleblower claims

    Court filings seek to revive a US lawsuit with alleged evidence of payments helping Hizbollah and Taliban

    People outside a Standard Chartered office
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Dozens of candidates register to stand in Iran’s presidential election

    Hopefuls from across the spectrum apply, but the Islamic republic is unlikely to take many risks

    Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Sweden accuses Iran of using criminal gangs to target Tehran’s enemies

    Intelligence service says ‘proxies’ attack Israelis and Iranian dissidents on Swedish soil

    Police officers are seen outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm in January, 2024
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Ebrahim Raisi buried after days of mourning for Iranian president

    Funeral at Shia shrine after leader’s death in helicopter crash with potential successors lining up ahead of vote

    Soldiers carrying the coffin of late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and other victims of the helicopter crash
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Kim Ghattas
    Netanyahu and Khamenei find themselves in a tightening vice

    The death of President Raisi and a blow from the ICC prosecutor have heaped pressure on Iran and Israel

    A man in a suit stands in front of a large Israeli flag
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Iran begins funeral procession for president after helicopter crash

    Crowds gather in city of Tabriz for start of three days of mourning events

    Iranians attend a ceremony in memory of the late president Ebrahim Raisi in Tabriz
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    News in-depth
    How sanctions played havoc with Iran’s ageing helicopters

    US-made Bell 212 carrying country’s president was almost 30 years old when it crashed into a mountainside

    Rescue teams near the crash site of a helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi dead in helicopter crash

    Aircraft came down on Sunday in remote and mountainous north-west

    Ebrahim Raisi
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Ebrahim Raisi
    Condolences pour in as Iran mourns Raisi

    Reaction in west more muted as capitals consider impact of president’s death on Tehran’s leadership and geopolitical tensions

    Iran’s first vice-president Mohammad Mokhber sits beside a portrait of the late president Ebrahim Raisi and the deceased leader’s empty seat
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    News in-depth
    Death of Raisi to test unity of Iran’s hardline factions

    Process to choose new president could push political rivalries among regime loyalists to new level

    Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, centre, and potential presidential candidates Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, left, and Ali Larijani
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    ObituaryEbrahim Raisi
    Ebrahim Raisi, president of Iran, 1960-2024

    Conservative cleric and protégé of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a contender to become the Islamic republic’s next supreme leader

    Ebrahim Raisi
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Instant InsightAndrew England
    Raisi’s death deals blow to Iranian regime

    Hardline cleric was seen as integral to republic’s succession plan

    Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Iranian rescue services find president’s helicopter wreckage

    Ebrahim Raisi’s condition unclear after ‘hard landing’ of his aircraft in mountainous region

    Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage at an event to inaugurate a dam in Azerbaijan hours before the helicopter crash
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    ReviewTheatre
    English, Stratford-upon-Avon — language lesson teaches complicated truths

    Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer prize-winning play about Iranian people learning English touches on identity and history

    A woman in an electric blue coat and orange headscarf smiles as she reads from a book
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Iran nuclear deal
    Iran open to ‘serious dialogue’, says UN nuclear chief

    Fraught relations with Tehran, which faces sanctions over its atomic programme, appear to be easing

  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Iran has quietly fixed the race for the next supreme leader

    The regime’s power-brokers have done everything to ensure a smooth transition except find a frontrunner

    Iranians brandish portraits of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini at a rally in Tehran
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    News in-depth
    Hardliners at odds with ordinary Iranians over fate of Tehran park

    Row over plan to build mosque in rare green space highlights divisions in increasingly polarised society

    Aerial view of Tehran
  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    Poland
    Poland probes state oil group’s Swiss subsidiary for alleged Hizbollah links

    Orlen Trading Switzerland investigated for losses on trades and potential connections to Iran-backed group

    A PKN Orlen operated petrol station in Warsaw
  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    Behind the Money podcast18 min listen
    How shale rewrote the global oil order

    What’s keeping oil prices from jumping higher?

  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    InterviewTheatre
    Writer Sanaz Toossi on bringing ‘English’ to Britain: ‘It’s a play born of rage’

    The American’s hit show, which follows Iranians learning the language, was informed by her experiences as the child of immigrants

    A woman with long hair sits in front of a brick wall
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel’s head of military intelligence resigns over October 7 attack

    Departure will increase pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over worst security failure in country’s history

    Aharon Haliva
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Middle East conflict
    Why Hizbollah was sidelined in Iran-Israel clashes

    Though regional hostilities recently hit their most dangerous level, militant group’s participation remained largely symbolic

    Hizbollah funeral
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