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Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif smiles during a meeting with students on a climate change forum at the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University, in Santa Cruz Bolivia, on July 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
Iran’s president accepts resignation of 2015 nuclear deal figure as UN atomic chief due in Tehran
Iran’s president formally has approved the resignation of one of his vice presidents who served as Tehran’s key negotiator in its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
 
An Iranian protester waves her country's flag during an anti-Israeli demonstration at the Felestin (Palestine) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran’s president insists Tehran does not seek a nuclear bomb and dangles US business opportunities
Iran’s president again has pledged his nation is “not after a nuclear bomb” ahead of talks between Tehran and the United States. He even dangled the prospect of direct American investment in the Islamic Republic if the countries can reach a deal.
 
A currency exchange bureau worker counts U.S. dollars at Ferdowsi square, Tehran's go-to venue for foreign currency exchange, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran’s currency falls to a record low against the dollar as tensions run high
Iran’s rial currency traded at a record low against the U.S. dollar as the country returned to work after a long holiday.
 
Chinese navy troops attending a joint naval drill with Iran and Russia stand on the deck of their warship in an official arrival ceremony at Shahid Beheshti port in Chabahar in the Gulf of Oman, Iran, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
China, Iran and Russia hold joint naval drills in Mideast as tensions rise between Tehran and US
China, Iran and Russia have conducted joint naval drills in the Middle East. The joint drills held Tuesday, called the Maritime Security Belt 2025, took place in the Gulf of Oman near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all crude oil traded w
 
FILE — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a conference in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Iranian government official who was key to 2015 nuclear deal tenders resignation under pressure
An Iranian official who was key to the country’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers has reportedly tendered his resignation from the government of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian.
 
Iranian demonstrators burn a representation of the U.S. flag during a rally commemorating anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the late pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought Islamic clerics to power, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
With Trump in the White House, Iranians mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution
Tens of thousands of Iranians are marking the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. It’s the first mass demonstration in the country since President Donald Trump returned to the White House and restarted his “maximum pressure” campaign targeting Tehran.
 
A cleric walks in front of a shopping center in northern Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran praises US for cutting foreign aid funding as it looks for a Trump message on nuclear talks
Iran’s government seems to be welcoming decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to assassinate.
 
Iranian women, without wearing their mandatory Islamic headscarves, walk in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran pauses the process to implement a new, stricter headscarf law for women, official says
An Iranian official says authorities have paused the process of implementing a new, stricter law on women’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab.
 
The reactor building of Iran's nuclear power plant and electricity poles are seen, at Bushehr, Iran, 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27, 2005. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Rolling blackouts plague Iran and some suspect bitcoin mining may have a role in the outages
Iran’s capital and outlying provinces have faced rolling power blackouts for weeks in October and November, with electricity cuts disrupting people’s lives and businesses.
 
Vehicles drive past an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel banner with writing in Farsi reading: "America is the great Satan", and in Hebrew "America will throw you away like used toilet paper", at the Felestin (Palestine) Sq. in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran’s currency falls to an all-time low as Trump clinches the US presidency
Iran’s currency has fallen to an all-time low as former President Donald Trump clinched the U.S. presidency again. The rial traded on Wednesday at 703,000 rials to the dollar.
 
An Iranian woman walks past a satirised image of the U.S. flag on the wall of former U.S. embassy, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Locked in Mideast wars and battered by sanctions, Iran is wary over US presidential election
America’s presidential election next week comes just after Iran marks the 45th anniversary of 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis. For many, tensions between Tehran and Washington feel just as high as they did then.
 
In this photo released on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, by Iranian Interior Ministry, miners sit at the site of a coal mine where methane leak sparked an explosion on Saturday, in Tabas, some 335 miles (540 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran. (Iranian Interior Ministry via AP)
Iran believes all remaining workers have died in coal mine explosion, raising death toll to 49
Iran says it believes the remaining workers trapped by an explosion at a coal mine in the country’s east have died, bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 49.
 
In this photo released by Iranian Red Crescent Society, miners and police officers are seen at the site of a coal mine where methane leak sparked an explosion on Saturday, in Tabas, some 540 kilometers (335 miles) southeastern of the capital, Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Iranian Red Crescent Society, via AP)
Death toll after explosion at eastern Iran coal mine rises to at least 38 with 14 still missing
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran. The recoveries brought the death toll in the disaster to at least 38. Another 14 miners are still believed to be trapped below ground.
 
Reza Alimirzaei, 73, who repairs and sells old radios, works at his shop in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
In Iran, the old-time US radio detective ‘Johnny Dollar’ returns to the airwaves
“Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,” a radio program created by CBS in 1949 that found a devoted listenership in Farsi, has returned to Iranian radio.
 
In this photo released by Iranian Red Crescent Society, miners and police officers are seen at the site of a coal mine where methane leak sparked an explosion on Saturday, in Tabas, some 540 kilometers (335 miles) southeastern of the capital, Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Iranian Red Crescent Society, via AP)
An explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran kills at least 34 workers
An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others. The disaster that began Saturday night is one of the worst mining disasters in the country’s history.
 
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during his press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran’s president insists Tehran wants to negotiate over its nuclear program
Iran’s new reformist president is insisting that Tehran didn’t want to enrich uranium at near-weapons grade levels but had been forced by the U.S. withdrawal from its nuclear deal with world powers.
 
This image taken from video released by Noghtezan shows an Iranian satellite launch Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024, in Iran. (Noghtezan via AP)
Iran says it successfully launched a satellite in its program criticized by West over missile fears
Iran says it launched a satellite into space with a rocket built by the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
 
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, center, is greeted by lawmakers while leaving the parliament after the conclusion of his speech during the debate on his proposed ministers, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran’s hard-line parliament approves all members of president’s Cabinet, first time since 2001
Iran’s hard-line parliament has approved all members of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian’s Cabinet, the first time in over two decades a leader has been able to get all of his officials through the body.
 
This image taken from a video released by Iranian state television shows the aftermath of a bus crash near Taft, Iran, early Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. A bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq crashed in central Iran, killing multiple people, an official said Wednesday. (Iranian state television via AP)
Bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq crashes in Iran, killing at least 28 people
A bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq has crashed in central Iran, killing at least 28 people. The crash happened Tuesday night in the central Iranian province of Yazd.
 
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, newly elected President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks after receiving official seal of approval of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an endorsement ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 28, 2024. Khamenei urged Pezeshkian to prioritize neighbors, African and Asian nations as well as countries that have "supported and helped" Iran in Tehran's foreign relations policies. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
Iran’s supreme leader endorses reformist Pezeshkian as new president. He takes oath Tuesday
Iran’s supreme leader has endorsed Masoud Pezeshkian as president, allowing the reformist heart surgeon to take charge of a country weakened by economic sanctions over its nuclear program.
 
This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran. (AP Photo)
Oil tanker held by Iran for over a year heads reaches international waters, tracking data shows
An oil tanker held by Iran for over a year after being seized has reached international waters. The Advantage Sweet was traveling on Thursday through the Strait of Hormuz, where it was seized in April 2023 by Iran’s navy.
 
Candidate for the Iran's presidential election Saeed Jalili, a hard-line former nuclear negotiator, shakes hand with a supporter after casting his vote for the presidential runoff election in Qarchak near Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 5, 2024. Iran was holding a runoff presidential election Friday pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker, though both men earlier struggled to convince a skeptical public to cast ballots in the first round that saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic's history. (AP Photo)
Iran holds runoff presidential vote pitting hard-liner against reformist after record low turnout
Iran has held a runoff presidential election pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker.
 
People commute in their cars during an afternoon traffic jam in northern Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Comments suggesting that Iran's reformist presidential candidate could increase government-set gasoline prices have raised fears of a repeat of nationwide protests. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Ahead of Iran’s presidential runoff, a floated rise in gasoline prices may spark new protests
Comments suggesting that Iran’s reformist presidential candidate could increase government-set gasoline prices have raised fears of a repeat of nationwide protests.
 
Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili, a hard-line former nuclear negotiator, speaks to a group of athlete supporters during a campaign stop at a sports hall in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
As Iran faces a rare runoff presidential election, disenchanted voters are staying away
Iranian voters say they are disenchanted ahead of the country’s runoff presidential election on Friday. It is only the second runoff vote since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.
 
A woman fills out her ballot during the Iranian presidential election in a polling station at the shrine of Saint Saleh in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 28, 2024. Iranians were voting Friday in a snap election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month, as public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Polls close in Iran presidential election held after hard-liner’s death and as Mideast tensions rise
Iranians have voted in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi. The race’s sole reformist candidate vowed to seek “friendly relations” with the West in an effort to energize supporters in a vote beset by apathy.
 
In this photo released by the Iranian state-run TV, IRIB, presidential candidate for June 28 election Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Vice President of late Ebrahim Raisi, attends a debate of the candidates at the TV studio in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 20, 2024. (Morteza Fakhri Nezhad/IRIB via AP)
Two candidates drop out of Iran presidential election, due to take place Friday amid voter apathy
Two candidates in Iran’s presidential election have withdrawn from the race. It’s an effort by hard-liners to coalesce around a unity candidate in the vote to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi.
 
An Iranian woman without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf flashes a victory sign as two head-to-toe veiled women walk at the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
As Iran’s presidential vote looms, tensions boil over renewed headscarf crackdown
Seemingly every afternoon in Iran’s capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all.
 
People make their way through the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 13, 2024. The rise of the “Hamster Kombat” app in Iran highlights a harsher truth facing the Islamic Republic's economy ahead of its presidential election this week to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
‘Hamster’ crypto craze has taken Iran. It highlights economic malaise ahead of presidential election
Cab drivers and bikers at red lights in June in Tehran tap away furiously on their mobile phones, ignoring police officers. Some pedestrians do the same. They all believe they could get rich.
 
In this picture made available by Iranian state-run TV, IRIB, hard-line presidential candidate for June 28, election Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, who is Iran's Parliament Speaker, attends a debate of the candidates at the TV studio in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 17, 2024. (Morteza Fakhri Nezhad/IRIB via AP)
Iran’s presidential candidates debate economic policies ahead of the June 28 vote
Iran’s six presidential candidates have discussed the country’s economic problems in a four-hour live debate on state TV. The elections were called after a helicopter crash killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others last month.
 
Iran's acting President Mohammad Mokhber addresses during the opening ceremony of a new parliament term, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 27, 2024. Mokhber addressed the country's new parliament Monday in his first public speech since last week's helicopter crash that killed his predecessor and seven others. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran’s acting president addresses new parliament after helicopter crash killing president, others
Iran’s acting President Mohammad Mokhber has addressed the country’s new parliament for the first time since last week’s helicopter crash that killed his predecessor and seven others.
 
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