Iran

all quiet

Iranian team boycotts national anthem at World Cup

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Briefing

Is Iran preparing to execute dissidents?

An Iron Dome system being used on the Gaza Strip this past August.

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Getting Some Assistance

Ukraine asks Israel for Iron Dome defense system

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Hindsight is 20/20

Obama reflects on a past 'mistake' and Democratic priorities in new interview

A rocket is fired during the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.

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More Violence on the Horizon

Russia to receive additional weapons from Iran, report says

Woman looking at Rekabi on monitor without hijab

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climbing concerns

Fears grow for Iranian athlete who competed without hijab

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breaking news

Ukrainian official says kamikaze drones are attacking Kyiv

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happening in Iran

Fire at Iran's notorious Evin prison leaves several dead

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Briefing

Parsing the protests in Iran

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2017

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Who's to blame?

Iranian Supreme Leader blames U.S., Israel for protests across country

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Crimes against chaos

Iran president warns against 'chaos' as protests continue

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'very unsettling'

Iran president cancels interview with CNN's Amanpour over head scarf

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Briefing

What's going on with Iran's raging protests?

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unrest

At least 9 killed in Iran as protests over woman's death grow

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Briefing

A new deal for Iran and the U.S.?

John Bolton, Salman Rushdie, and IRG Soldiers

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Briefing

Rushdie, Bolton, and Iran's Revolutionary Guard, explained

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it wasn't me

Iran implies Rushdie is to blame for attack

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Speed Reads

Putin makes rare international trip to Iran

President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid.

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foreign affairs

Biden and Israel's Yair Lapid split on how to deal with Iran

TV studio damaged by Iranian missile attack

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everyone's okay

U.S. blames Iran for ballistic missile attack on Iraqi Kurdistan

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Noah Millman

A new era of nuclear proliferation?

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leaving afghanistan

Top aid official says thousands of Afghan refugees are entering Iran every day

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iran

Iranian journalist said details of kidnapping plot were 'shocking'

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scary

Iranian intelligence operatives charged in plot to kidnap author living in Brooklyn

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all eyes on iran

Iran's president-elect says he won't meet with Biden

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U.S.-Iran relations

What Ebrahim Raisi's election means for Iran, U.S.

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Naval disasters

Iran's largest warship catches fire, sinks

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exit strategy?

How will U.S. respond following reports on Iran-backed drone strikes in Iraq?

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Ryan Cooper

What the U.S. owes Iran

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Bonnie Kristian

Biden's baffling Iran posture

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re-opening

Iran has started to re-open government offices, businesses despite coronavirus

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Joel Mathis

America is battling a pandemic. Why is Trump talking about war with Iran?

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whoops

Netanyahu reportedly mistook a Hallmark series clip for proof of an Iranian coronavirus coverup

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Ryan Cooper

The U.S. coronavirus outbreak is going to be worse than Iran's

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foreign policy tensions

Iran and North Korea reacted very differently to U.S. offers to help battle coronavirus