Iran seesawing vote results put race between reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and hard-liner Saeed Jalili

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Early, seesawing results released Saturday in Iran’s presidential election put the race between reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and hard-liner Saeed Jalili, with the lead trading between the two men while a runoff vote appeared likely. The early...

Polls close in Iran presidential election held after hard-liner's death and as Mideast tensions rise

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians voted on Friday in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, with the race's sole reformist candidate vowing to seek “friendly relations” with the West in an effort to energize supporters in a vote beset by apathy. ...

The Latest | Polls close in Iran after election to replace a president killed in a helicopter crash

Iranians voted on Friday to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country's northwest along with the foreign minister and several other officials. Analysts broadly described the race as a three-way contest. There are two...

Polls close in Iranian presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi after his death in a helicopter crash

Iran opens voting in an election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash

Two candidates drop out of Iran presidential election, due to take place Friday amid voter apathy

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two candidates in Iran's presidential election withdrew from the race as the country on Thursday prepared for the upcoming vote, an effort by hard-liners to coalesce around a unity candidate in the polls to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi. ...

Analysis: No matter who wins Iran's presidential election, much may hinge on the 'Great Satan' US

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In the waning moments of Iran's final televised presidential debate, one of the top candidates to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi invoked the name of the one person who perhaps has done more than anyone to change the trajectory of the Islamic...

As Iran's presidential vote looms, tensions boil over renewed headscarf crackdown

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Seemingly every afternoon in Iran's capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all. The renewed crackdown comes not quite two years since...

Iran's supreme leader warns sole reformist in presidential race, while calling for 'maximum' turnout

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's supreme leader issued a thinly veiled warning Tuesday to the sole reformist candidate in the country's upcoming presidential election, saying anyone who believes “all ways to progress” come from the United States shouldn't be supported. ...

U.S. sanctions 'sprawling' shadow banking network for supporting Iranian military

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday it is imposing economic sanctions on 50 people and firms across Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and the Marshall Islands that have been acting as a “sprawling shadow banking network” for Iran's military. ...