First the guards canceled family visits. Then they confiscated the prisoners’ radios. Then came the tribunals. Within weeks, 10,000 Iranian dissidents were dead. Sitting in judgment at some of ...

MADRID - The year 1403 in the Persian calendar came to an end, leaving behind a whirlwind of political events that have reshaped the landscape of Iran and its surroundings. The intensity of these ...

Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi has long been seen as a protégé to Iran’s supreme leader and a potential successor for his position within the country’s Shiite theocracy.

Iranian cleric Ebrahim Raisi holds a press conference at the Interior Ministry building in Tehran, Iran on April 14, 2017. [AFP] The sudden demise of the eighth president of Iran, Seyed Ebrahim ...

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The funeral of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash ... Several million people from all over Iran participated in the funeral processions. On May 19, a helicopter ...

Since we assume that Iran fears the independence of Southern ... A funeral is held for late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, last year. The term ‘Southern Azerbaijan ...

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The first of several ceremonies for President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials killed in the helicopter crash was held today. Mourners gathered around the victim's caskets as the procession ...

A helicopter carrying Ebrahim Raisi crashed in Iran’s province of East Azerbaijan on May 19 DUBAI, May 20. /TASS/. Iran's Majlis (unicameral parliament) will convene on May 21 for its first ...

Ebrahim Raisi met with the accident while returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a dam on Iran’s border with Azerbaijan Republic. Iranian state media reported that bad weather was the cause of ...