Iran says it launched a satellite into space with a rocket built by the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.

Iranian state TV says an official investigation into the helicopter crash in May that killed Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and seven other people found it was caused by challenging climatic and atmospheric conditions.

Iran’s newly-elected president has reappointed a U.S.-educated official as director of the country’s nuclear department.

Ismail Haniyeh was the international face of Hamas, its top leader in exile who kept up the militant group’s ties with allies around the region.

Iran has sworn in the country's new president, a reformist politician and heart surgeon who pledged to keep trying to remove economic sanctions imposed by the West over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.

At first glance, elections in France and Britain were a triumph for leftists and reformers over authoritarians and the right.

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s runoff presidential election, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili.

Iranians have voted in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country’s northwest along with the foreign minister and several other officials.

Iran has held a runoff presidential election pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met for the second time in as many months as they visit Kazakhstan for a session of an international group founded to counter Western alliances.

Iranian presidential candidates have discussed the impact of economic sanctions imposed on their country by the United States and other Western nations, and presented their views about reviving a nuclear deal with world powers.

Iran’s two presidential candidates are accusing each other of having no solution for the country’s problems ahead of Friday’s runoff.

Iranians have voted in a presidential election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash in May along with the country's foreign minister and several other officials.

Iranians have started voting in a presidential election to replace late President Ebrahim Raisi.

Even in a busy year of elections, the next few days stand out.

Two candidates in Iran’s presidential election have withdrawn from the race.

Iran’s supreme leader has issued a thinly veiled warning to the sole reformist candidate in the country’s upcoming presidential election.

Six candidates have been approved by Iran’s theocracy to run in Friday’s presidential election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash with several other officials in May.

In the second live debate on state television, six presidential candidates have discussed Iran’s economic problems ahead of the country’s June 28 election following a helicopter crash last month that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others.

Iran’s Guardian Council has approved the country’s hard-line speaker of parliament and five others to run in the country’s June 28 presidential election following a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others.

While the cause of the May 19 helicopter crash that killed Iran's president and others remains unknown, the sudden death of the hard-line protégé of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has exposed the contradictions and challenges facing the country’s Shiite theocracy.

Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker has registered for the country’s June 28 presidential election.

Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered as a possible candidate for the June 28 presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation’s president and seven others.

The U.N. General Assembly’s tribute to Iran’s late president Ebrahim Raisi was snubbed by Western and East European nations amid protests against honoring a leader who was reviled for his crackdown on opponents.

Iran has opened a five-day registration period for hopefuls wanting to run in the June 28 presidential election.

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.

Iran has interred late President Ebrahim Raisi at the holiest Shiite shrine in the nation, days after a fatal helicopter crash killed him, the country’s foreign minister and six others.

Among Iranian communities from London to Los Angeles, few tears are being shed over the death of President Ebrahim Raisi.

Iran’s supreme leader and representatives of allied militia groups prayed over the coffins of the country’s late president, foreign minister and other officials killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has denounced the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court for seeking the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mourners have begun the days of funerals and processions for Iran’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash.

The United Nations says it’s no longer able to distribute food aid in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to lack of supplies and insecurity.

Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed acting president of the Islamic Republic after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.

Iran's state media has reported that Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has died in a helicopter crash that also killed the country's president.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s foreign minister have been found dead hours after their helicopter crashed in fog.

The helicopter crash in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials were killed is likely to reverberate across the Middle East, where Iran’s influence runs wide and deep.

The helicopter crash that killed Iran’s president and foreign minister has sent shock waves around the region.

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.

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials apparently has crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of his country.

The leaders of Iran and Pakistan have agreed to strengthen economic and security cooperation in a meeting that sought to smooth over a diplomatic rift.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will be the one to decide whether and how to respond to Iran’s major air assault over the weekend.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will decide whether and how to respond to Iran’s major air assault earlier this week, brushing off calls for restraint.

Iran has vowed to respond to a deadly airstrike widely attributed to Israel that demolished Iran’s consulate building in the Syrian capital and killed 12 people, including two Iranian generals.

Iran has marked the 45th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid tensions gripping the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The Kremlin says that Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a one-day trip to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia focused on the Israeli-Hamas war and also host the Iranian president in Moscow this week.

The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power.

An Israeli diplomat said Sunday that Iran was behind the unprecedented attack on Saturday in southern Israel — and not the Gazan people.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says that relations with the United States can move forward if the Biden administration demonstrates it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, and a first step should be easing sanctions.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says that his country will never give up its right “to have peaceful nuclear energy” and urged the United States “to demonstrate in a verifiable fashion” that it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on seven people and four companies in China, Russia and Turkey who officials allege are connected with the development of Iran’s drone program.

The Americans released by Iran after being detained for years have arrived back home and declared, “Freedom!”.

It’s Day 1 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York.

The U.N. nuclear chief says he asked to meet Iran’s president on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting, His goal is to reverse Tehran’s ban on many of the agency’s inspectors.

Iran’s president is denying his country sent drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine.

As the Biden administration heralds the forthcoming release of five U.S. citizens detained by Iran, it’s also confronting questions about the price being paid to bring them home.

Britain, France and Germany have announced that they will keep their sanctions on Iran related to the Mideast country’s atomic program and its development of ballistic missiles.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are among six nations that have been invited to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies, along with the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Egypt and Ethiopia.

Iran’s Defense Ministry has unveiled a drone resembling America’s armed MQ-9 Reaper, claiming that the aircraft is capable of staying airborne for 24 hours and has the range to reach the country's archenemy Israel.

Iran’s president on a rare visit to Africa has sharply criticized Western nations’ support for homosexuality as “one of the dirtiest things which have been done in human history.”.

The president of the United Arab Emirates has met with Iran’s visiting foreign minister in the latest sign of improving relations between Arab Gulf countries and the Islamic Republic.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has met with Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel in Havana, the last stop of a Latin American trip that also took him to Iran's two other allies in the region — Venezuela and Nicaragua.

In his first visit to Latin America, Iran’s hardline president has met with his Nicaraguan counterpart and railed against a theme both leaders have in common: U.S. sanctions.

Iran is claiming that it's created a hypersonic missile capable of traveling at 15 times the speed of sound.

The Taliban and Iran have exchanged heavy gunfire on the Islamic Republic’s border with Afghanistan.

A Palestinian official says Iran’s president has met with senior Palestinian officials in Damascus and expressed his country’s support to them.

The presidents of Iran and Syria have signed a series of long-term trade agreements in Damascus to bolster economic ties between the two allies.

Tens of thousands of Iranians have demonstrated in support of Palestians, marking the annual anti-Israel “Jerusalem Day,” or al-Quds Day after the city’s Arabic name.

An agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to re-establish diplomatic relations has cast China in a leading role in Middle Eastern politics — a part previously reserved for longtime global heavyweights like the U.S. and Russia.

A crisis over suspected poisonings targeting Iranian schoolgirls is escalating as authorities now acknowledge over 50 schools have been struck in a wave of possible cases.

Iran’s president has ordered authorities to investigate a series of incidents in which noxious fumes have sickened students at girls' schools, which some officials suspect are attacks targeting women’s education.

China and Iran have called on mutual neighbor Afghanistan to end restrictions on women's work and education.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has expressed support for Iran during a visit by its president as Tehran tries to expand relations with Beijing and Moscow to offset Western sanctions over its nuclear development.

Iran is celebrating the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid nationwide anti-government protests and heightened tensions with the West.

The European Parliament has called for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to be put on the European Union’s terrorist list and insisted that sanctions targeting Tehran had to be expanded after the violent suppression of protests.

Iranian hardliners have burned French flags outside the French embassy in Tehran, protesting against cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling clerics.

An Iranian lawmaker has said that Iran’s government was “paying attention to the people’s real demands” a day after a top official suggested that the country’s unpopular morality police has been shut down following months of protests.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a televised address has praised paramilitary volunteers tasked with quashing dissent.

Some Iran fans at the team's World Cup opener against England showed their support for protests against the Islamic Republic's regime.

Iran is marking the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as its theocracy faces nationwide protests after the death of a 22-year-old woman earlier arrested by the country’s morality police.

Iran’s supreme leader and its president have tried to link the nationwide protests roiling the country to an Islamic State-claimed gun attack on a famous mosque that killed 15 people.

Iran’s president has accused the U_S_ of conducting a “failed policy of destabilization.”.

Anti-government demonstrations have erupted in several areas across Iran as the most sustained protests in years against a deeply entrenched theocracy entered their fourth week.

Iranian president has appealed for national unity and tried to allay anger against the country’s rulers, even as the anti-government protests engulfing the country continued to spread to universities and high schools.

The United States has imposed sanctions on a group of firms it says have played a critical role in shipping sanctioned Iranian oil.

An Iranian drone bombing campaign targeting the bases of an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq has killed at least nine people and wounded 32 others.

Activists say Iran's current wave of protests are different from previous unrest.

The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog says he met with his Iranian counterpart in Vienna for talks about an ongoing investigation into manmade uranium particles found at undeclared sites in Iran.

Iran's president says the death of an Iranian woman in the custody of the country’s morality police for violating the dress code must be “steadfastly” investigated.

Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters have killed at least nine people since the violence erupted over the weekend.

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says he'll meet with Ukraine’s and Russia’s foreign ministers in a bid to establish a safety and security zone around a nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine that is Europe’s largest.

Iran’s president insists that his country is serious about reviving a deal meant to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear bomb.

Iranians are experiencing a widespread internet outage amid days of mass protests against the government.

The United States has urged the International Court of Justice to throw out a case brought by Iran seeking to claw back some $2 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets that the U.S. Supreme Court awarded to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked to Tehran.

Ukraine’s president has implored the world to punish Russia for its invasion.

President Joe Biden is confronting difficult issues as he travels to New York this week for the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.

The Iranian president’s comment that “there are some signs” that the Holocaust happened but that the issue required more research has sparked an outcry from Israel, a country home to tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors.

After two years of virtual and hybrid summits, the world will once again convene in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to press his attack against Ukraine despite its latest counteroffensive.