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Iran helicopter crash shows Tehran's reliance on an aging fleet as well as its challenges at home
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoBy the time Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi boarded his window seat on a helicopter ferrying him,...
How much will a presidential election reveal about Iran’s future?
Al Jazeera· 1 day agoIran’s recent history is a rollercoaster of contrasts, alternating between hope and despair,...
Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei praises Islamist groups for Israel fight
dpa international via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has once again praised Islamist groups for their...
Iranian general who ordered live gunfire on students enters presidential election
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA former Iranian Revolutionary Guard general who ordered live rounds to be used against student...
Iran: president’s death has set hardliners jostling for position to replace ageing supreme leader -...
EconoTimes· 4 days agoThe death of Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash in May plunged Iran into political uncertainly. Raisi’s death has set off an intense power struggle within the Islamic ...
The children of Iran’s revolution still want to go West
The Economist· 2 days agoGrowing up, Iran’s aghazadehs, the children of the elite, chanted death to America each morning at school. Iran touts its pivot to Russia and China, but the aghazadehs of the Islamic ...
How Iran’s leaders are using the ‘martyrdom’ of President Raisi as part of the election campaign
The Conversation· 2 days agoThousands of Iranians came out on the streets to mark the funeral processions of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran, Mashhad, and Tabriz, after he died in a helicopter crash alongside ...
The Middle East’s Perfect Storm
The National Interest· 2 days agoAs Israel launches its offensive on Rafah at the peril of the hostages and its international standing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again...
Iran's hard-line parliament speaker emerges as the theocracy's top figure in the presidential vote
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoThe entry of Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a former Tehran mayor with close ties to the country’s...