Close allies: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the man who was expected to succeed him, President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopted crash on May 19 2024.
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Middle East expert Scott Lucas answers our questions about the politicians vying to become the next president of Iran.
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Moderates are likely to be shut out of the race for the presidency, now seen as a stepping stone to Iran’s top job.
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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.
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.
On International Women’s Day, March 8 2022, demonstrations against the Iranian government’s treatment of women took place in cities across the world.
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Girls’ schools have been at the centre of protests which are shaking the Islamic Republic to its core.
Women, life, freedom: protests against the oppression of Iranian women in Iran in Ottowa, Canada, September 2022.
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Increasing numbers of Iranians want a government of the people, not a monarchy or an Islamic theocracy.
Women have been at the forefront of protests in Iran.
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Iranian women have often used images of actions such as singing and dancing unveiled to show what freedom means to them and to protest the Islamic Republic’s gender oppression.