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  • Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities, and included economic slogans, to political and anti-government ones. (Photo by MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Iran threatens U.S. and Israel as protests enter third week

    By Arsalan Shahla and Bloomberg
  • Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities, and included economic slogans, to political and anti-government ones. (Photo by MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)Middle East

    Dozens feared dead as Iran hit by largest protests in years

    By Arsalan Shahla and Bloomberg
  • US President Donald Trump, left, and Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, during an address to the nation in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 21, 2025. Trump said the US military struck three sites in Iran on Saturday, marking the first American involvement in direct attacks against Iranian nuclear assets in its conflict with Israel. Photographer: Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    US attacks three nuclear sites in Iran, widening conflict

    By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Akayla Gardner, and others
  • TEHRAN, IRAN – OCTOBER 4: (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY MANDATORY CREDIT – ‘IRANIAN LEADER PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT’ – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads Friday prayer at the Imam Khomeini Musalla Mosque for the first time in 4 years Tehran, Iran on October 4, 2024. (Photo by Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)Politics

    Iran supreme leader says ‘crushing response’ awaits US, Israel

    By Arsalan Shahla and Bloomberg
  • Masoud Pezeshkian holds up fistPolitics

    Iran’s new president is a reformist and heart surgeon who uses English business jargon and wants to revive the nuclear deal with the West

    By Golnar Motevalli, Arsalan Shahla, and others
  • Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks at podiumPolitics

    Iran’s president and foreign minister found dead at site where helicopter crashed

    By Arsalan Shahla and Bloomberg
  • IranEnvironment

    The heat is so bad in Iran that the government declared a 2-day public holiday amid scorching 122-degree temperatures

    By Liza Tetley, Jack Wittels, and others
  • Mahsa Amini image at protestPolitics

    Iran suspends ‘morality police’ after death of Mahsa Amini sparks months of protests

    By Golnar Motevalli, Arsalan Shahla, and others
  • Memorial during a candlelight vigil at Mel Lastman Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 09, 2020 for the victims of the Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 plane crash. On 8 January 2020, the Ukrainian airliner crashed approximately six minutes after takeoff from Tehran airport killing all 176 people on board. Newly emerging video appears to show a missile being fired and hitting the plane. Leaders of Canada and Britain said that they have intelligence that the Ukrainian airliner was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada's intelligence, as well as intelligence provided by allies, shows that the commercial aircraft was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. 63 Canadian citizens were killed in the crash. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)International

    ‘Psychological Warfare:’ Iran Rails at Western Governments Over Claims That It Shot Down Boeing Airliner

    By Jennifer Jacobs, Alan Levin, and others
  • TEHRAN, IRAN - JANUARY 08: Search and rescue works are conducted at site after a Boeing 737 plane belonging to a Ukrainian airline crashed near Imam Khomeini Airport in Iran just after takeoff with 180 passengers on board in Tehran, Iran on January 08, 2020. All 167 passengers and nine crew members on an Ukrainian 737 plane that crashed near Iran's capital Tehran early Wednesday have died, according to a state official. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)International

    Boeing 737 Crashes in Iran Due to ‘Technical Issue’, Killing All 176 on Board

    By Arsalan Shahla, Alan Levin, and others
  • IRAQ-UNREST-IRAN-USLeadership

    Trump Says Iran Made ‘Big Mistake’ Shooting Down U.S. Drone

    By Arsalan Shahla, Zainab Fattah, and others
  • NATO summit in WarsawInternational

    Iran Says It Shot Down a U.S. Drone Amid Escalating Tensions in the Oil Region

    By Zainab Fattah, Margaret Talev, and others