Iran

The apparent crash of a helicopter carrying Iran’s president and foreign minister has sent shock waves around the region. Here’s what to know.

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, state media reported Monday morning. NBC’s Drew Petrimoulx has the latest on this developing story.

Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed president of the Islamic Republic after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in the country’s northwest.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the country’s supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels and launched a major drone-and-missile attack on Israel, has died.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63.

Iran’s attack against Israel over the weekend has spurred a flurry of bipartisan legislative action in Congress.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is warning of potential global “economic spillovers” from rising tensions in the Middle East as the White House pledged to exact new sanctions against Iran.

Israel’s multilayered air-defense system is credited with protecting the country from serious damage or casualties from an Iranian strike by more than 300 drones and ballistic missiles.

Booms and air raid sirens sounded across Israel early Sunday after Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Middle East closer to a regionwide war.

A top military commander has renewed Iran’s promise to retaliate after an airstrike earlier this week widely blamed on Israel.

An American porn actor who has advocated for Palestinians online during Israel’s war on Hamas traveled to Iran and visited the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

Iran has threatened to “decisively respond” to any U.S. attack on the Islamic Republic following President Joe Biden linking Tehran to the killing of three U.S. soldiers at a military base in Jordan.

Iran says it has successfully launched three satellites into space, the latest for a program that the West says improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles.

Iran says it fired missiles at what it claimed were Israeli “spy headquarters” near the U.S. consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, and at targets linked to the extremist group Islamic State in northern Syria.

The bombs exploded during a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. during a drone strike in 2020.

Two bombs exploded and killed at least 95 people Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said, as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.

Iran had previously slowed down the rate at which it was enriching uranium to 60% purity. Uranium enriched at 60% purity is just a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.

A fire has broken out at a drug rehabilitation center in northern Iran on Friday, killing at least 27 people. State TV says 17 others were injured and taken to hospitals in Langroud city.

The Pentagon says the U.S. military launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The U.S. and Qatari governments have agreed to block Iran from accessing any of the $6 billion it gained access to as part of a prisoner swap deal between the Biden administration and Tehran last month, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told House Democrats on Thursday, according to three sources familiar with his remarks, two of whom were in the...