ALBAWABA - As tension between Washington and Tehran increases, Senior Adviser Ali Larijani was permitted to lead the country and have effective control of Iran in case a war erupts. A report released ...

A mourner stands with an Iranian national flag at a memorial vigil a day after the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader Aytollah Ali Khamenei, on March 1, 2026 in Tehran [AFP] A favourite tactic of ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting with students in Tehran on November 2, 2024 [Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA via Reuters] For years, interventionists in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he would not seek a deal with Iran without the country’s “unconditional surrender” as Washington warned of a forthcoming bombing campaign that officials ...

Iran’s army said on Monday it targeted US Ali Al Salem air base in Kuwait as well as vessels in the Indian ocean after the killing of the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader in US and Israeli strikes.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Ali Khamenei was nominated by senior clerics to replace Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Iran’s supreme ...