Tag: Iran

Hossein Amirabdollahian killed in helicopter crash, was Iran Foreign Minister, hard-line diplomat

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, a hard-liner close to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who confronted the West while also overseeing indirect talks with the U.S. over the country’s nuclear program, died in the helicopter crash that also killed the country’s president, state media reported Monday. He was 60. Amirabdollahian […]

Iran President Ebrahim Raisi dies in helicopter crash

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the country’s supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels and launched a major drone-and-missile attack on Israel, has died. He was 63. Raisi’s sudden death, […]

New details emerge on Biden’s Iran envoy-in-limbo

The mystery surrounding sidelined Biden administration Iran envoy Robert Malley is deepening, amid revelations by two top GOP lawmakers that Mr. Malley may have downloaded “classified documents” onto his cellphone, which was then apparently hacked by Iranian cyber operatives. Mr. Malley, a longtime Democratic diplomat who was a key architect of the Obama administration’s 2015 […]

Iran and the U.N. nuke agency are still discussing how to implement a 2023 deal on inspections

JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran and the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog are still negotiating over how to implement a deal struck last year to expand inspections of the Islamic Republic’s rapidly advancing atomic program, officials said Tuesday. The acknowledgment by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s leader Rafael Mariano Grossi shows the challenges his inspectors face, years […]