Ali Khamenei

Despite Israeli opposition, EU and US insist they will work with Iran’s new government

A dubious victory

Landslide victory undermined by voter apathy and lowest turnout in republic’s history

Former ultra-conservative chief justice is a protege of supreme leader Ayatollah Khameini

Ebrahim Raisi is considered the protege of supreme leader Ali Khamenei

Many expected to ignore vote over discontent with economic hardship and hardline rule

Regime presses case of Ebrahim Raisi as voters expected to shun poll seen as illegitimate

Lifting of US sanctions key to progress amid eagerness to restart accord Trump cancelled

Talks in Vienna aim to return both countries to full compliance with 2015 nuclear accord

Mohsen Rezaei says sanctions would have to be lifted monthly during talks on a renewal of the 2015 deal

Stalemate as US president says Tehran must return to full compliance with 2015 nuclear deal

Tehran ‘furious’ at Seoul for not releasing cash amid mounting coronavirus crisis

Qatari emir refused to capitulate to Saudi, Emirati demands and ostracism campaign

US president-elect says he sees a return to the current 2015 agreement as the best immediate route to regional stability

Iran’s supreme leader has sketched out a more difficult path to normalisation

Lockdown during this time of family and communal gatherings is particularly painful

Ban on reformists and moderates suggests hardliners will win majority in assembly

Individuals linked to assassination attempt and espionage on Danish soil charged

Esmail Qaani executed the plan to recruit Afghan and Pakistani Shia fighters to fight for President Bashar al-Assad in Syria

Supreme leader leads Friday prayers for first time in eight years amid ongoing public unrest

Tehran says it is now enriching more uranium than before 2015 deal with world powers

UK, France and Germany have triggered dispute mechanism in nuclear deal that could reimpose sanctions on Iran

Ali Khamenei seeks to calm anger over authorities’ handling of Ukrainian airline crash

Protests in Iran over targeting of Ukraine aircraft go to the heart of rifts in its society

Shooting down of Ukrainian passenger jet leads to challenge to Islamic Republic’s clerical rulers

The latest crackdown shows that, despite the regime’s contrition over the shooting down of a Ukrainian jet, its intolerance of dissent remains rigid and unchanging

Demonstrators shout ‘Clerics get lost!’ as fury directed at supreme leader Ali Khamenei

Senior US diplomat says killing weakened chance of better nuclear deal, of reversing Iran’s influence and of weakening the regime

World View: For Washington and Tehran hardliners, peace would be admission of defeat

The US should take seriously Tehran’s efforts to put an end to the cycle of violence

Trump confirms image as a modern Caligula: wantonly setting fire to the Middle East

Iran considering ‘several scenarios’ to avenge death of Qassem Suleimani, killed in US drone strike

Hardliners try to balance need to strike back at US with avoiding a full-blown conflict

Assassination only likely to aid Iranian hard-liners and impeached Trump

Suleimani killing puts intense pressure on US-Iraq links 17 years after US invasion

Khamenei weeps as Qassem Suleimani’s successor vows to expel US forces from region

Tehran’s strategic imperative will be to act in such a way that it saves face without provoking a US attack inside Iran

US ready to strike 52 Iranian sites if provoked, says Donald Trump

Trump defends targeted strike on Suleimani amid threat of major confrontation

Stand-off at embassy brings the US into its most serious crisis in Iraq in years