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The comments from an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps leader suggested that a widely feared regional conflict might be averted, at least for the moment. A senior Iranian military official said [...]

Top officials from the U.S., Israel, Egypt and Qatar ended two days of talks in Doha aimed at trying to resolve remaining disagreements between Israel and Hamas. High-level talks to [...]

Mohammad Javad Zarif's resignation shocked Iran's political circles and came as President Masoud Pezeshkian announced that his cabinet would include several conservatives and only one woman. Iran's new president, Masoud [...]

Iranians say they have not been told how to prepare should broad hostilities break out between their country and Israel. All government agencies and offices were closed Wednesday in Tehran, [...]

President Biden convened his national security team and spoke with King Abdullah II of Jordan, and foreign ministers from Islamic countries plan to gather in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Diplomats [...]

Iran has begun a sweeping investigation into the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, with its intensity a sign of how damaging and shocking the security failure was. Follow our latest updates [...]

Iran has begun a sweeping investigation into the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, with its intensity a sign of how damaging and shocking the security failure was. Iran has arrested more […]

The killing of Hamas's political leader in Tehran was a humiliating security failure for the Iranian government. Most new Iranian presidents have months to settle into the decades-old cadence of […]

The Israeli military said it had killed Muhammad Deif, who it called a planner of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which would make him the third Iranian-backed militant leader […]

Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, according to seven Middle Eastern […]

The deadly strike on Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran threatened to further inflame the region and derail negotiations aimed at reaching a cease-fire in Gaza. The predawn killing of a top [...]

The strike was in retaliation for a deadly rocket attack this weekend in the Golan Heights. At least three civilians were killed and 74 others wounded on Tuesday, Lebanese officials [...]

Masoud Pezeshkian, a widowed doctor, portrays himself as a reformer who can bring social and economic shifts. But others have tried and failed before him, and numerous obstacles are in [...]

Masoud Pezeshkian, a widowed doctor, portrays himself as a reformer who can bring social and economic shifts. But others have tried and failed before him, and numerous obstacles are in [...]

Masoud Pezeshkian, a cardiac surgeon and relative moderate in the ruling establishment, defeated an ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator in a runoff. In an election upset in Iran, the reformist candidate [...]

For the first time in years, the outcome is difficult to predict, and could be decided by how many people end their boycotts and participate in the vote. One pledged [...]

Candidates in the campaign to fill the seat of President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash, showed notable candor about the country's mounting problems. A reformist candidate critical [...]

The latest polling suggested Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate, was in the lead, but not enough to avoid a runoff. As voting proceeded in Iran's presidential election on Friday, [...]

Iran has expanded its most sensitive nuclear production site in recent weeks. And for the first time, some leaders are dropping their insistence that the nuclear program is for peaceful [...]

The former U.S. president's election is treated as a foregone conclusion, with the six contenders clashing over who is best suited to handling him. Throughout Iran's presidential campaign, in debates, [...]

In a sign that a women-led movement has gained ground, all of the men running for president have distanced themselves from the harsh tactics used to enforce mandatory hijab. Iranian [...]

A special presidential election campaign is featuring blistering attacks on the status quo by conservatives and the lone reformer alike. The campaign billboards adorning the streets of Iran for the [...]

Iran released an E.U. diplomat from Sweden and a dual Iranian-Swedish national, while Sweden released a former Iranian judiciary official serving a life sentence for war crimes. Iran and Sweden [...]

The Security Council endorsed a U.S.-backed plan, while Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visited the Middle East to lobby for it, but Hamas and Israel were noncommittal. The United [...]

Algeria, the only Arab representative in the current makeup of the Security Council, drafted the resolution. Seeking to harness the outrage over an Israeli strike on Sunday that set fire [...]

As a frenzied quest began for the fallen helicopter of President Ebrahim Raisi, Iran moved to control possible threats from abroad and unrest at home. Shortly before embarking on a [...]

The ayatollah announced five days of mourning for the president and foreign minister who died when their helicopter plunged into a mountainous region. Some Iranians celebrated the deaths. Iran sought [...]

The hard-line Shiite cleric was seen as a possible successor to Iran's supreme leader. Mr. Raisi's death comes at a moment of turbulence for a country facing a deepening conflict [...]

Rescuers are trying to locate the helicopter on which President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were traveling, state media reported. Their status is unknown. A helicopter carrying [...]

The vote comes after the United States last month vetoed a Security Council measure granting full U.N. membership to a Palestinian state. The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly [...]

Facing deep economic troubles and a restive population, the government seems to have adopted a policy of declaring victory over Israel and cracking down at home, analysts say. In the [...]

Facing deep economic troubles and a restive population, the government seems to have adopted a policy of declaring victory over Israel and cracking down at home, analysts say. In the [...]

The retaliatory attack damaged a defense system near Natanz, a city in central Iran that is critical to the country's nuclear weapons program. An Israeli airstrike on Iran on Friday [...]

The retaliatory attack damaged a defense system near Natanz, a city in central Iran that is critical to the country’s nuclear weapons program. An Israeli airstrike on Iran on Friday [...]

An Israeli weapon deployed in a retaliatory strike against Iran on Friday damaged a defense system responsible for detecting and destroying aerial threats near Natanz, a central Iranian city critical [...]

The drone attack may have been launched from inside Iran, once again demonstrating Israel's ability to carry out clandestine operations there. The Israeli military struck Iran early on Friday in [...]

Though it was not immediately clear if the missiles struck targets inside Iran, their use would mean more sophisticated firepower was involved in the attack than first reported. Israeli warplanes [...]

The Israeli military struck Iran early on Friday, according to two Israeli and three Iranian officials, in what appeared to be Israel’s first military response to Iran’s attack last weekend [...]

In Israel, officials described the strike as a limited response and reports from both sides suggested it did not appear to cause significant damage to military sites. The https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/18/world/israel-iran-gaza-war-news/blasts-are-reported-near-the-iranian-city-of-isfahan?smid=url-share on [...]

The United States blocked the U.N. Security Council on Thursday from moving forward on a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a full member state at the United Nations, quashing [...]

The Israeli military struck Iran early on Friday, according to two Israeli defense officials, in what appeared to be Israel’s first military response to Iran’s attack on Israel five days [...]

Israeli officials say they didn't see a strike on a high-level Iranian target in Syria as a provocation, and did not give Washington a heads-up about it until right before [...]

Israeli officials say they didn’t see a strike on a high-level Iranian target in Syria as a provocation, and did not give Washington a heads-up about it until right before [...]

Iran's retaliation for Israel's killing of senior military leaders was a highly choreographed spectacle. But fears of a wider war still loom. Iran's much-anticipated retaliation for Israel's killing of senior [...]

Iran’s retaliation for Israel’s killing of senior military leaders was a highly choreographed spectacle. But fears of a wider war still loom. Iran’s much-anticipated retaliation for Israel’s killing of senior [...]

El enfrentamiento militar directo entre Irán e Israel ha generado un nuevo interés en las fuerzas armadas iraníes. El inicio de un enfrentamiento militar directo entre Irán e Israel ha [...]

Experts say Tehran does not want a broader war. But it is far from clear whether Iran or Israel will choose to escalate a conflict that has become more direct [...]

Experts say Tehran does not want a broader war. But it is far from clear whether Iran or Israel will choose to escalate a conflict that has become more direct [...]

Many Iranians stayed glued to their television screens and phones Saturday night, anxiously following updates as their country launched a military attack on Israel and fearing a wider war that [...]

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss Iran’s attack on Israel, with diplomats urging restraint by all parties to prevent conflict in the region [...]