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    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      Russian politics
      Ukraine grain deal and Syria top agenda for Putin’s Iran-Turkey talks

      Russian leader keen to secure path for country’s own food exports during three-way discussions in Tehran

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      News in-depth
      Iranian hardliners back Raisi’s low-key approach despite protests

      President avoids clashes with other politicians, leading to rare unity across state bodies

    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      Iran
      Iran vows revenge after assassination of commander in broad daylight

      President Ebrahim Raisi blames ‘global tyranny’ for death of officer in elite Revolutionary Guards

    • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
      Iran nuclear deal
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      Foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian seeks assurance that Washington will not abandon JCPOA accord again

    • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
      Iran
      Iran’s president visits Moscow in effort to boost relations

      Tehran seeks to expand links with Russia and China amid tensions with US

    • Monday, 20 December, 2021
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      Iranians seek foreign shores as reform hopes dim

      Officials alarmed by brain drain from doctors and university graduates planning futures abroad

    • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
      Iran
      Raisi outlines higher taxes and little hope for nuclear deal in draft budget

      Iran’s president forecasts economic rebound and little changed crude sales

    • Monday, 29 November, 2021
      Iran nuclear deal
      Iranian hardliners head for nuclear deal talks in Vienna

      Negotiator who called the agreement ‘a complete loss’ to lead new round of negotiations

    • Sunday, 21 November, 2021
      News in-depthIran
      Iran’s Raisi under pressure to deliver as patience frays

      Working class support base struggling with rising prices, joblessness and economic hardship

    • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
      Iran nuclear deal
      Iran nuclear deal talks to restart on November 29

      EU to chair Vienna meeting including China, France, Germany, Russia and UK in bid to salvage negotiations

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      Iran nuclear deal
      Iran says talks on nuclear deal will be revived next month

      New president Raisi has prioritised domestic issues and regional relations since election

    • Friday, 15 October, 2021
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Saudi Arabia ‘serious’ about talks with Iran

      Kingdom says it is considering reopening Jeddah consulate as it tries to keep talks with regional foe alive

    • Friday, 24 September, 2021
      Iran
      Iranians say ‘I do’ to state-sanctioned online romance

      Islamic republic hopes to boost falling marriage rates through matchmaking app

    • Monday, 20 September, 2021
      News in-depthIran
      Iran’s Raisi focuses on vaccines not nuclear talks

      About-turn over imports of jabs helps new hardline administration battle the pandemic

    • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
      Iran
      Iran’s new hardline president defiant in face of sanctions and security concerns

      Ebrahim Raisi is formally endorsed by country’s supreme leader at ceremony in Tehran

    • Sunday, 1 August, 2021
      News in-depthIran
      Raisi vows to restore ‘trust’ with disillusioned Iranian public

      President-elect sworn in this week as water shortages add to hardship of inflation and sanctions

    • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
      David Gardner
      Iran’s hardliners disregard voters at their peril

      Historic low turnout in presidential poll could presage rebellion of an alienated young population

    • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
      The Big Read
      Iran’s balancing act: hardliners weigh social freedoms for stability

      Ayatollah Khamenei and new president Ebrahim Raisi must bridge the gulf between the theocratic regime and Iranians’ aspirations

    • Friday, 25 June, 2021
      Person in the News
      Ebrahim Raisi, the hardliner poised to take power in Iran

      Many believe the president-elect has ambitions to become the Islamic republic’s next supreme leader

    • Monday, 21 June, 2021
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      Iran’s president-elect Ebrahim Raisi signals tough line on nuclear deal

      Incoming leader rules out meeting Biden and will ‘not negotiate for the sake of negotiations’

    • Sunday, 20 June, 2021
      Iran
      Raisi election will not derail Iran nuclear talks, say western powers

      EU and US see diplomacy as key to putting accord back on track

    • Sunday, 20 June, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Hardliners gain a lock over Iranian politics

      Win by Ebrahim Raisi may be a Pyrrhic victory after boycott by restive voters

    • Sunday, 20 June, 2021
      News in-depth
      Raisi victory secures control for Iran’s hardliners

      Sombre cleric trusted by supreme leader faces challenge of economy battered by sanctions and Covid

    • Saturday, 19 June, 2021
      Iran
      Conservative cleric Raisi wins Iran presidential election by a landslide

      Justice chief’s victory means hardliners now control all branches of the state for first time in almost a decade

    • Friday, 18 June, 2021
      News in-depthIran
      Iranians lose faith in possibility of change through the ballot box

      Hardline candidates are expected to benefit from a forecast low turnout in the presidential election

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