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a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who came to power in 2021, pushed the program forward. Raisi died in a helicopter crash in May. Iran's reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian ...

American security agencies have tracked foreign interference from Russia, China and Iran since at least 2016, when Donald Trump was elected. Federal agents in 2021 filed charges against two ...

Iran is one of the leading implementers of the death penalty, executing 233 people during 2020 as of November 19, including for crimes committed as children and those that do not meet the ...

We’re under way. Asked if they would support or oppose a preemptive strike on Iran by Israel, in the wake of Iran launching over 100 ballistic missiles at Israel, both JD Vance and Tim Walz ...

Outgoing Mossad chief Yossi Cohen all but confirmed these attacks in a 2021 interview with Israeli television, stating that agents had supplied Iran with "marble foundations" embedded with ...

Should the deal come up — and it may, because of Iran’s missile test this week — it will be interesting to see if the debate devolves into a rehash of the Iraq War, which was opposed in real ...