The vote was called following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. While ultimate power in Iran rests with the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the president can ...

The stances by Pezeshkian, now Iran’s 69-year-old president-elect, highlight the dualities of being a reformist politician within Iran’s Shiite theocracy — always pushing for change but ...

President Donald Trump believes his administration is “very close to a solution” on an Iran nuclear agreement and he has ...

Reformist lawmaker Masud Pezeshkian has won Iran's July 5 runoff presidential election against ultraconservative candidate Saeed Jalili and will become the ninth president of the Islamic Republic ...

The president is the top elected official and second ... The most powerful figure in Iran is Ayatollah Khamenei, who has been supreme leader since 1989. He is head of state and commander-in ...

Iran and the U.S. have see-sawed between enmity and grudging diplomacy in the years since, with relations peaking when Tehran ...

In his first term, President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal and imposed sanctions on Iran. President Joe Biden wanted to rekindle the 2015 pact, but that didn’t happen. Now what?

June 25 (Reuters) - Iranians will choose between mostly hardline candidates in an early presidential election on June 28 following the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month.

DUBAI, July 6 (Reuters) - Iran's president-elect, low-profile moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, carries the hopes of millions of Iranians seeking less restrictions on social freedoms and a more ...