Once seen as a likely successor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, President Ebrahim Raisi has died in office, leaving the Islamic Republic’s hardline establishment facing an uncertain future. An ultraconservative president, 63-year-old Raisi was killed Sunday, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other high-ranking officials, in a helicopter crash in Iran’s remote northwest. Their death comes at a delicate time for a country that faces unprecedented challenges at home and from...
Rescuers have found a helicopter that was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials that had apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches
On Monday, New Delhi and Tehran signed a deal that will enable India to operate a terminal at Iran’s Chabahar Port for 10 years.
The fatalities of the worst flash floods in over 20 years in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad has risen to seven, according to the latest official figures.
Raisi – a hardline and religiously conservative politician – has deep
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A date has ben set for Iran’s presidential election. It will be held on 28 June. According to Iran’s constitution new elections were expected to be held in the next 50 days. ran’s President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was also killed in Sunday’s crash, along …
The White House is oblivious to the fact that Iranian clerical leadership relies 100% on their perception of God’s will in all their motivations, decision-making processes and actions. It wouldn’t occur to a secular Westerner that Iranian clerics timed their April attack on Israel on a day and time they considered to be divinely sanctioned — even the number of projectiles and extent of the attack were such considerations.
He is running for the Senate as an immigrant who made good, reaching out to Ohio voters with a stirring, only-in-America bootstraps story: arriving as a child from Colombia, taking a risk on a struggling business, and then turning it into a smashing success and himself into a millionaire 100 times over. Running under the banner of Donald J. Trump’s populist political movement, Bernie Moreno, the Republican challenging Senator Sherrod Brown, humbly calls himself a “car guy from Cleveland” and...
Iranian Supreme Leader Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei has announced Mohammad Mokhber as interim president. “Mokhber will be the head of the Executive Branch & is obliged to cooperate with the heads of the Legislative & Judiciary Branches in facilitating the election of a new president within a maximum of 50 days,” the supreme leader said …
Concerns continue about possible attacks on Jewish institutions in Latin America. The post Experts Warn of Iran’s Expansion in Latin America first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.
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