Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, speaks to the media after casting his vote during the 2024 parliamentary elections in Tehran, Iran.
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The sudden death of Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, has also sparked much speculation about the identity of the country’s next supreme leader.
Members of the Sudanese Armed Forces on Aug. 14, 2023.
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Tehran is supplying weapons to the Sudanese Armed Forces as they fight a paramilitary group for control of the nation.
A mourning ceremony for President Ebrahim Raisi at Vali-e-Asr Square in downtown Tehran, Iran, on May 20, 2024.
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The late President Ebrahim Raisi was supposedly being groomed to succeed an aging Ali Khamenei. The succession is a complex process, more dependent on politics than religion.
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Ebrahim Raisi held substantial sway over Iran’s domestic and foreign policies. So, how will the regime fill his void at a challenging time for the country?
Iranian rescue workers near the wreckage of the helicopter that crashed carrying Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, in Tabriz province, Iran.
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Iran’s president and foreign minister killed in helicopter crash – we ask an expert what might happen next.
Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, is reported by state media to have died following a helicopter crash.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced a five day period of mourning following the discovery of wreckage on hillside.
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The decision is a missed opportunity to move away from Australia’s practice of indefinite immigration detention.
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The United States and Israel are gifting Iran and its message of defiance enormous appeal, well beyond the imagination of Iranian authorities.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
Many Israelis want a ceasefire and security – and the return of their hostages.
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It’s a precarious situation, but pressure from the US and Saudi Arabia, among others, is gradually pushing the two warring sides towards a deal. But a lot can still go wrong.
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Iran and the US have been at loggerheads for decades. But in recent years much of the conflict has moved into cyberspace.
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Iranian commentators are warning of a potential economic shock and wider public unrest should Trump resume his ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against the country’s leaders.
Members of the security forces try to stop protesters during a pro-Palestinian rally near the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, in October 2023.
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Jordan’s foreign policy has landed the kingdom in hot water.
The 1983 Beirut truck bombing was the deadliest attack on U.S. forces abroad since World War II.
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More than 240 US personnel died in truck bombing – remembered as the worst day in his career by Gen. Alfred M. Gray Jr., who died on March 20, 2024.
A woman chants slogans as she holds an Iranian flag during an anti-Israeli gathering in Tehran on April 19, 2024. Israel reportedly retaliated against Iran on April 19 for its drone-and-missile assault on Israel a week earlier.
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Israel’s latest missile strike on Iran may be more a face-saving exercise aimed at satisfying members of its coalition government than a true escalation of hostilities.
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How far the violent exchanges between Israel and Iran will escalate may well hinge on how strong the two sides’ leader need to appear to their own people.
Computer-assisted warfare: an Israeli patrol in the Gaza Strip, March 2024.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘We will make our own decisions’ on responding to Iran’s attack.
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Iran has reached a stage in its weapons programme where it would be difficult for a single strike to do significant damage.
Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, meets his Omani counterpart, Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, in Tehran on July 17, 2023.
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The small Gulf state has hosted high-level Western and Iranian delegations, passing messages between them.
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The case could result in further limits on the immigration minister’s powers to keep refugees in detention indefinitely.