TEHRAN — President-elect Hassan Rowhani of Iran, speaking on Monday for the first time since his election victory, said he wanted to reduce tensions with the United States but ruled out direct talks ... Read more
TEHRAN — On the final day of campaigning the front-runners in the Iranian presidential election were full of promises of a bright future. “There is hope in your eyes,” the mayor ... Read more
TEHRAN — The decision on Tuesday to bar the presidential candidacy of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a founding father of the revolution and a former president, shocked Iranians, particularly among the 70 ... Read more
TEHRAN — A former president and a close ally of the departing president were both barred Tuesday from running for president of Iran, a decision that lays bare the deep divisions in the Islamic republic ... Read more
TEHRAN — Even by the zero-sum terms of Iranian politics, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei is a polarizing presidential candidate, an ally of the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and a mortal enemy of the clerics ... Read more
TEHRAN — There was a time when Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani seemed to have it all. A founder of the Islamic Revolution, he headed a family empire that owned the second biggest Iranian airline, Mahan, had ... Read more
TEHRAN — Iran’s presidential race entered a new, unpredictable phase on Saturday when two game-changing politicians, both out of favor with the country’s leaders, signed up as candidates in ... Read more
TEHRAN — Iran’s state television broadcast a live program on Tuesday in which passers-by were placed in a chair and asked what they would do if they were president. One man said he ... Read more
TEHRAN — Iran’s Shiite leaders warned of regional sectarian conflict after reports that Syrian rebels raided a Shiite shrine in a suburb of Damascus last week, destroying the site and making off ... Read more
TEHRAN — Just six weeks before Iran’s presidential election, politicians and clerics have declared open season on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his government, in one instance calling him a ... Read more