Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi is dead following a helicopter crash, Iranian state media said Monday morning. The Iranian minister of foreign affairs and the others onboard were also killed in the ...

Iran eyes peace with Saudi Arabia to focus on stability as part of its bid for diplomatic dominance in the region.

President Ebrahim Raisi (3rd L) was in north-western Iran for the inauguration of a dam, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (2nd R), East Azerbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati (2nd L ...

After the 2017 election failure, Raisi was named the chief justice of Iran in 2019, the highest legal office in the country.

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, was a hard-line cleric close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His election in 2021 consolidated the ...

Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi looks poised to become Iran's next president after Friday's elections amid surging coronavirus cases and voter apathy in a devastated economy. According to a partial vote ...

Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi won't be inaugurated until ... similar to the format of talks with the Saudis in Baghdad." Raisi, Iran's judiciary chief and a protégé of Iran's supreme ...

Raisi's death comes amid high tensions in the Middle East. Under him, Iran launched retaliatory drone-and-missile attacks on Israel last month. He also saw the production of uranium enriched to ...

TEHRAN, August 5. /TASS/. Ebrahim Raisi has officially sworn in as the new President of Iran in the country’s parliament Thursday. The ceremony took place with the attendance of heads of ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. WSJ correspondent Sune Rasmussen explains the impact of Raisi’s death on Iran and a region already in turmoil.

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