Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranian Shiite cleric Mehdi Karroubi gestures during a news conference on Iran's parliamentary elections in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

A son says a leader of Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests will be freed from house arrest

One of the leaders of Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests will be released from house arrest in the coming weeks. That’s what Mehdi Karroubi’s son told state media on Monday. But previous speculation that he would be released failed to come true.
 
Adam Pemble smiles as he poses for a photo on a train in Ukraine where he was filming an all formats interview with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 28 2023. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova)

Adam Pemble, AP journalist whose compassionate lens brought stories to life, dies at 52

 
Iran's hard-line parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf sits while registering his name as a candidate for the June 28 presidential election at the Interior Ministry, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 3, 2024. Iran's Guardian Council on Sunday, June, 9, approved the country's hard-line parliament speaker and five others to run in the country's presidential election following a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran OKs 6 candidates for presidential race, but again blocks Ahmadinejad

 
Iran's hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the media as he leaves at the conclusion of a press briefing beside portraits of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, top right, and the late President Ebrahim Raisi after registering his name as a candidate for the June 28 presidential election at the Interior Ministry, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 2, 2024. Ahmadinejad registered Sunday as a possible candidate for the presidential election, seeking to regain the country's top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation's president. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for June 28 presidential election

 
This photo taken in 2021 shows Narges Mohammadi in Tehran, Iran. Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women's rights and democracy and against the death penalty. (Reihane Taravati via AP)

Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Iranian women 20 years apart trace tensions with the West