The oppressive Iranian regime declared a five-day mourning period for President Ebrahim Raisi after his death in a helicopter crash on Sunday, yet many Iranians are celebrating the passing of the vicious hardliner, known as the “Butcher of Tehran” for his role in murdering dissidents after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appointed First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber interim president.
The Biden administration faced fierce GOP opposition last year after its decision to host the recently deceased Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — a Holocaust denier dubbed the “Butcher of Tehran” for his role in the mass executions of tens of thousands of political prisoners — in New York to attend the 2023 United Nations session.
Late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi abruptly concluded a presidency defined by the massacre of young dissidents.
Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping mourned the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, proclaiming Raisi a “good friend” of China.
European Union stood out among democratic West for sending “sincere condolences” for death of “serious human rights violations” president.
There was “no sign” of life after search teams found the site where a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday.
Iranian President Raisi visited Sri Lanka to launch a hydropower project, and a Russian company has taken over China’s white-elephant airport.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin praised Iran’s unprecedented, 300+ missile and drone assault against Israel on Tuesday in conversation with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, claiming it was the “best way” for Tehran to address its tensions with Israel.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi threatened a “fierce, widespread, and painful” attack on Israel or any other perceived enemy of Iran’s in remarks on Monday, disregarding widespread international calls for “restraint” in the Middle East.
Several of Iran’s most powerful officials, including “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed revenge against Israel following an airstrike in Damascus, Syria, on Monday that eliminated a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leader.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi used his Ramadan holiday message on Monday to urge Muslim nations to set aside their differences and unite to fight Israel and the “arrogant powers” of the Western world.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) warned that Iran has expanded its influence in Venezuela to such a degree that it is a threat to America.
Iran vowed to strengthen cooperation with Bolivia following a meeting this weekend between Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Bolivian socialist President Luis Arce, his “friend.”
The 45th anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution was celebrated Sunday amid the backdrop of tumult across the Middle East sparked by the Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi dismissed the United Nations as an irrelevant and unhelpful organization, demanding “reform.”
President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran departed for Turkey on Wednesday, expected to hold in-person meetings with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on how best to support the jihadist terror group Hamas in its campaign of human rights atrocities against Israel.
The local government of Kerman, Iran, claimed this weekend that it had definitively identified and arrested all suspected terrorists involved in the bombing of an event to mark the anniversary of the death of Iranian terror mastermind Qasem Soleimani on January 3.
Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, declared on Friday that a “Zionist grudge” drove ISIS to bomb a Qasem Soleimani memorial event.
The Islamic State on Thursday used one of its channels on the messaging platform Telegram to claim responsibility for the bombings in Iran that killed almost a hundred people at a ceremony to honor terrorist mastermind Qassem Soleimani.
Crowds of people in Kerman, Iran, gathered on Wednesday night chanting, “death to America” and “death to Israel,” multiple outlets reported, in response to a bombing there earlier on Wednesday believed to have taken at least 95 lives.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said neither Iran nor Israel believes in a “two-state solution” for the Palestinians.
The figurehead “president” of the Cuban Communist Party, Miguel Díaz-Canel, reiterated on Monday the Party’s “unbreakable support” for the “Palestinian cause” as he met with his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, in Tehran.
Hamas terror leader Ismail Haniyeh graciously thanked the world’s most prolific state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, on Thursday for its “firm support” against the ongoing military operation by Israel to eradicate the group in its stronghold of Gaza.
U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday, requesting an update on what legal actions the U.S. Department of Justice and State Department have taken toward the arrest and extradition of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro since 2021.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this weekend for a meeting of 57 Muslim world leaders to condemn Israel in response to its ongoing self-defense operation against the genocidal Hamas terrorist organization.
Iran’s hard-line president, Ibrahim Raisi, told a gathering of Muslim and Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia on Saturday that the only solution in the Middle East was the destruction of Israel and its replacement by a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.”
Iran’s frantic effort to drag the BRICS coalition into defending the Hamas terrorists included a phone call between Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi telephoned Pope Francis Sunday afternoon and thanked the pontiff for his repeated calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi declared that support for Israel is a manifestation of “racism and colonialism” in remarks on Wednesday.
The head of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, suggested in a conversation on Thursday with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu that continued American and other international support for Israel could “make other actors intervene” against it.
A woman’s rights activist in Iran who organized protest actions from within Iran’s notorious Evin prison, Narges Mohammadi, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s achingly long and rambling address to the U.N. General Assembly began with a lengthy sermon on the Muslim holy book, which eventually built up to him calling for action against Quran-burning by citizens of free nations.
GOP officials are slamming the Biden administration’s decision to host Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — dubbed the “Butcher of Tehran” — who travelled to New York to attend Tuesday’s United Nations session.
A group of over 160 distinguished international human rights and legal experts, Nobel Prize laureates, and various organizations are demanding the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) “immediately” cancel a planned meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, dubbed the “Butcher of Tehran” for his role in the torture and murder of tens of thousands of political prisoners.
The United States and Iran exchanged prisoners on Monday, largely completing a deal that also included President Joe Biden unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian assets that have been held in South Korean banks since former President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “NBC Nightly News,” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stated that the money that will be unfrozen under Iran’s prisoner swap with the United States “belongs to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and naturally, we
The White House insisted there would be no sanctions relief for Iran almost exactly a month before gving it $6 billion in sanctions relief.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Monday it could take up to two months to complete the “process” of releasing five American hostages after President Joe Biden’s reported $6 billion ransom payment.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi paid a rare visit to Africa this week, with stops planned in Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. While in Uganda on Wednesday, Raisi praised President Yoweri Museveni for passing a law that increased punishment for homosexual activity, all the way up to capital punishment in some cases.
