Recent rumours about the health of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have thrown the spotlight on what will happen if he becomes too ill to rule, ...
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Although President-elect Joe Biden had promised before this year's U.S. election that he would return to the nuclear deal with Iran, doing so will be very difficult ...
I am asking myself why we are not celebrating our democracy. Is partisanship ruining the joy of living in the greatest republic ever built by humanity? The...
More than a month after election results were known, President Donald Trump continues to deny that he has lost to Joe Biden. He is backed by over 70 per cent ...
Joe Biden's pick as national security adviser says Iran is more dangerous since Donald Trump walked away from a deal with the country; Trump has ordered five ...
Iran has warned of a strong response if Donald Trump goes ahead with plans to use the twilight of his presidency to mount a strike on Iran or its allies in the ...
The killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was designed to undermine the possibility of a quick US-Iran detente come January, says Mohamad Bazzi, journalism ...
The ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals was a complete repudiation of President Trump's effort to halt Pennsylvania's certification process. Mr. Trump ...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it is planning to lift its ban on political ads on Thursday after a blackout of more than a month because of concerns over election ...
As the 2020 presidential campaign ramped up in August, US intelligence agencies warned that Russia, China, and Iran would attempt to interfere in the ...
The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an atomic physics specialist widely regarded as the chief architect of Iran's nuclear program since the 1979 ...
Former national security officials tell All Things Considered that they worry about the blowback if Trump were to launch an unprovoked attack on Iran or quickly ...
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Friday took aim at Twitter after it slapped a warning label on her tweet about election fraud -- noting that the tech giant ...
Sidney Powell published a 104-page document detailing allegations about Georgia and a 75-page document looking at Michigan on Wednesday night, alleging ...
TEHRAN, IRAN -- Iran's supreme leader mocked America's presidential election Tuesday in a televised address, quoting U.S. President Donald Trump's own ...
On Friday Iran held its 11th parliamentary elections since the foundation of the Islamic Republic in 1979, and the first since the Trump administration renewed ...
YouTube's determination to curb election misinformation is extending to disputes over the results. The Google-owned *service* has started removing *content* ...
“The electoral points in Wisconsin are more important!” “My aunt lives in Michigan. She says there is a lot of fraud there!” The comments are from a cartoon ...
Iran's constitutional watchdog on Monday set June 18 as date for the country's next presidential election, a vote that will choose the successor to President ...
Although polling is an inexact science, particularly in Iran, it still gives us a glimpse into Iranian opinion. According to a poll conducted by the Iranian Students ...
U.S. officials have accused Iran of being behind a flurry of threatening but fake emails sent to Democratic voters in Florida and other battleground states in a ...
3000: The US reached another grim milestone this week when more than 3000 people died from COVID-19 on a single day, the highest toll since the pandemic ...
The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency both issued advisories Friday warning that Iran is spreading propaganda and targeting U.S. ...
US Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that Russia and Iran have both tried to interfere with the 2020 presidential election.
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Russia has been singled out for its role in sowing disinformation and discord to boost President Trump's candidacy.
Russia and Iran are ramping up attacks on U.S. government networks and computer systems while also amplifying their disinformation campaigns, hoping to ...
The US National Security Agency and Cyber Command conducted an operation against Iran within the last two weeks as part of a broader effort to protect the ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's week-long parliamentary election campaign started on Thursday, state TV reported, a vote seen as a popularity test for the clerical ...
Editorial: The victory of hardliners in the parliamentary contest was engineered. But Donald Trump's choices have destroyed faith in the promises of moderates.
The outcome of the November 3 US presidential election will reverberate far beyond the United States, especially in Iran, where it may influence the fortunes of ...
While the world looks to next month's U.S. election for clues on the future of the standoff with Iran, candidates are preparing for another vote that may prove just ...
In an op-ed recently published by the Iranian newspaper Shargh, Tehran University professor and pro-reform analyst Sadegh Zibakalam compared Iran's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Iran will have a brief window between their upcoming presidential elections in which to ease dangerous ...
TEHRAN — Iran's constitutional watchdog on Monday set June 18 as the date for the country's next presidential election, a vote that will choose the successor to ...
US President Donald Trump, unlike his opponent Joe Biden, continues to place pressure on Tehran. Observers are not ruling out a 'deal' or bilateral talks in the ...
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Joe Biden is naming Susan Rice as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, giving her broad sway over his ...
One of the biggest concerns in the upcoming US election is that foreign powers could interfere with the vote. Experts say there is more than one way for this to ...
A U.S. government advisory panel convened on Thursday to decide whether to endorse mass use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to help conquer the outbreak ...
Negar Mortazavi is a Washington DC-based journalist covering Iran and the Middle East. She is a columnist for the Independent in the UK and a frequent guest ...
Amid a disappointing performance by Rouhani and pushback from the ultra-conservative Guardian Council, Iran's alliance of reformists and moderates is ...
There will be more than 7000 candidates contesting Iran's parliamentary elections — less than half of those who applied to stand in the nationwide vote Friday.
Many see Iran's conservatives winning Friday's election, but that's more to do with reformists losing favor than hard-liners gaining popularity, said Tan Feng Qin ...
Most assessments and predictions so far about Iran's next presidential elections have taken a conservative victory for granted. Many media outlets have ...
The victory by hard-liners in Iran's election puts parliament back in the hands of people determined to turn the clock back on reconciliation with the West.
For decades, the Iranian regime's ideological army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has formed part of Iran's 'deep state'. Today, it is on the verge ...
Iranian hackers suspected of emailing threatening messages to U.S. voters last week and spreading false information about compromised election systems ran ...
Iran's Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli has expressed concern over possible low turnout in the country's next presidential election. After Iranian officials ...
U.S. Director fo National Security John Ratcliffe said Wednesday that Iran is behind a series of emails to voters containing both intimidating threats to vote for ...
In spite of the fact that the US and Israel have put significant pressure on the Iranian regime this year, Tehran has tactically refrained from responding with a ...
A divide among Iran's conservatives casts doubt whether a victory in the May 2021 election is within their reach, despite their overwhelming majority at the ...
WASHINGTON — While senior Trump administration officials said this week that Iran has been actively interfering in the presidential election, many intelligence ...
'The mistake we made in 1992 when we went round saying we had no need and no plans to raise tax and immediately after the election we discovered a need ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Top officials in Iran say the upcoming U.S. election doesn't matter, but nearly everyone else there seems to be holding their ...
Iran is laying out red lines in its tussle with the U.S. as Americans elect their president, pointing to a period of high-stakes diplomacy should Donald Trump be ...
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump still has a good chance of being re-elected thanks to his ...
Tehran (AFP). Iranians vote next week in a crucial parliamentary election that is widely expected to herald the return of conservatives and heap pressure on ...
Even if Joe Biden triumphs at the polls, Iran's weakened government may only have a few months to negotiate a revived nuclear deal before facing its own ...
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called out Facebook and Twitter on Thursday, ridiculing the two social media giants for the way they handled explosive allegations ...
On Wednesday, the government reported foreign actions, taken to affect public opinion related to U.S. elections. It comes after voters in Alaska and Florida ...
Iran will hold its 2021 presidential election on June 18, the Interior Ministry announced on Monday, as incumbent President Hassan Rouhani's two four-year ...
U.S. officials say Iran is responsible for emails meant to intimidate American voters and sow unrest in multiple states, and Tehran and Moscow have also ...
U.S. officials on Wednesday night accused Iran of targeting American voters with faked but menacing emails and warned that both Iran and Russia had obtained ...
LONDON — Iran reacted cautiously as former U.S. vice president Joe Biden was named America's president-elect, urging the incoming administration to ...
Here is today's Foreign Policy brief: Iran holds parliamentary elections, Irish lawmakers face crunch time to form a government, and fears of the coronavirus are ...
In Iran — after months that have seen conflict with the U.S., protests on the streets and ongoing economic pressure, it looks like hardliners have the upper hand ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday the result of the U.S. election was not important for the country's clerical rulers, but that ...
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With Iran's June 2021 presidential elections approaching, a perennial public debate over whether women have the right to run for president has resurfaced.
Iran's parliamentary election on Friday — in which only conservative candidates were allowed to run — was meant to buy Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran summoned the Swiss envoy on Thursday to protest against what it called “baseless” U.S. claims that Tehran has tried to interfere with the ...
With attention worldwide focused on the uncertain result of the U.S. presidential election, online memes and social media jokes have emerged as cross-cultural ...
Iranian media is saying that preliminary results of Friday's parliamentary election are showing conservatives winning 70% of the 290-seat chamber, with ...
Russian, Chinese and Iranian hackers have all attempted to hack people and organizations involved in the 2020 US presidential election, Microsoft said on ...
