Ebrahim Raisi

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.

Turkey and Iran: A close yet competitive relationship

Turkey's search efforts after a helicopter crash killed Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi last week shed light on cooperative yet sensitive relations

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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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The death of Iran’s president will spark a high-stakes power struggle

Amid a regional war, a fight at home between the clerics and military looms

The Economist 22 May 2024

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

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What Raisi’s death means for Iran’s future

The president's sudden death in a helicopter crash creates uncertainty for the country amid regional turmoil

Jack Detsch 20 May 2024

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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Iran faces credibility problem over employment numbers

The high level of unemployment has become a national talking point in Iran, while claimed statistics offered by the government are no longer trusted by citizens.

Hanan Azizi 04 August 2023

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…

24 September 2022

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

Tehran Summit is Attempt to Activate Regional Cooperation Against Washington – Political Analyst

Earlier this week, the Iranian capital Tehran hosted a tripartite summit that brought together Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Russian and Turkish, counterparts Vladimir Putin and Recep…

Jiwan Soz 22 July 2022

Iranians protest against the surge in fuel prices (AFP)

Iran: Endless Living Crises, Human Rights Violations

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…

Ahmed Taher 20 May 2022

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

Ebrahim Raisi and His Nuclear Project

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

Mahdi Akabaei 02 October 2021

Evin Prison: Mullah’s Crime Scene

Hassan Zarif Nazarian may not be disturbed as much as other detainees by the scenes of violence practiced in the video footage leaked from the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Being held in the…

Rowshan Qassim - Erbil 10 September 2021

An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) inspects damage at the party headquarters in Koy Sanjaq, 100 kilometers east of the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region Erbil, on September 12, 2018, after it was hit days earlier by an Iranian rocket attack. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)

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…

Jiwan Soz 13 August 2021

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