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Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Leaders’ Summit 2026, in New Delhi on September 12, 2026 | Photo Credit: ANI Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday (September 12, 2026) that West Asia does not need the United States to…
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File image of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Photo: Iran’s Presidential website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Reuters | Photo Credit: Iran’s Presidential website Iran’s President said Monday (June 29, 2026) that $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets would be released by Qatar as negotiations with the United States were challenged by attacks across the Persian…
The President presented the names of the new 19-member cabinet including one woman. File | Photo Credit: AP Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian presented his Cabinet to parliament on Sunday (August 11, 2024), notably including a woman and a Western-friendly diplomat as the country’s Foreign Minister. Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced the names of the…
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Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, left, sits next to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. File | Photo Credit: AP Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his official endorsement to reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as the Islamic republic’s ninth president on July 28, following elections earlier this month. In a message read by the director of Mr….
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This undated handout image, released by the office of the Iranian President on July 6, 2024, shows the reformist Masoud Pezeshkian who became the ninth president of Iran with 16,384,403 votes. | Photo Credit: Office of the Iranian President via Getty Images Iranians have picked reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as the Islamic republic’s next President in…
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Hard-line former Iranian senior nuclear negotiator and candidate for the presidential election Saeed Jalili casts his ballot in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, on June 28, 2024. Iranians are voting in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi. | Photo Credit: AP Early, seesawing results released Saturday in Iran’s presidential…
Massoud Pezeshkian. | Photo Credit: AFP Iranians broadly deplore Western sanctions that have battered the economy, but the country’s six presidential candidates offer differing solutions — assuming the winner gets a say on foreign policy. With the June 28 snap election fast approaching, debates between the candidates vying for Iran’s second-highest office have featured a…
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After Iran mourned president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a recent helicopter crash, the nation’s focus turns to an election next month for his successor, with the conservative camp seeking a loyalist to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The lead-up to the early vote on June 28 has opened up the field to a broad…
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Iran’s acting President Mohammad Mokhber addresses during the opening ceremony of a new parliament term, in Tehran, Iran, on May 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Iran’s acting President Mohammad Mokhber addressed the country’s new parliament on May 27 in his first public speech since last week’s helicopter crash that killed his predecessor and seven…
The story so far: The death of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s President, and eight others, including Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian, in a helicopter crash on May 19, has sent shockwaves across the region. The timing of the accident was significant. Tensions remain high in West Asia, particularly after Iran launched its first direct attack on Israel…
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