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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands with Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi at the end of their joint press conference in Ankara on January 24, 2024.

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The coffin of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is carried on the shoulders of soldiers in the city of Tabriz on May 21, 2024.

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An Iranian man follows the news of the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran.

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Iranian women shop in Tehran on July 18, 2023, as the police relaunched patrols to catch the increasing number of women leaving their hair uncovered in public in defiance of a strict dress code.

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People light a fire during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 21, 2022. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Iran's President Raisi Says Protesters Should Be 'Confronted Decisively'

President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that Iran must "deal decisively with those who oppose the country's security and tranquility", Iranian state media reported. Raisi's comments were made in…

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attend a summit of leaders from the guarantor states of the Astana process, designed to find a peace settlement in the Syrian conflict, in Tehran, Iran July 19, 2022. President Website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

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During setbacks and crises, warnings are issued by loyalists before the opposition, out of fear of losing control and facing worse conditions and the collapse of the state. Iran today is facing the…

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Presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi speaks with journalists before the start of the last election debate, in Tehran, Iran June 12, 2021. Ayoub Ghaderi/YJC/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) criticized Iran for stonewalling an investigation into past activities and jeopardizing important monitoring work, possibly complicating efforts to…

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Tehran’s Killing Machine to Get Rid of Influential Opponents

A prominent member in the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), which is the oldest Kurdish party in the country, denounced the assassination of a party leader in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi…

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