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The United States, which has blocked four other resolutions, said it vetoed the most recent version because it did not make the release of hostages a precondition for a truce. [...]

The U.S. veto at the U.N. came as the Biden administration’s envoy in Lebanon reported “additional progress” on cease-fire talks in the war between Israel and Hezbollah. The United States [...]

Repeatedly imprisoned in his country, Kianoosh Sanjari refused to be silenced by the government. But in the end, despairing of change, he silenced himself. The Iranian government first arrested him [...]

The envoy, Amos Hochstein, said an end to the fighting was “within our grasp” after meeting in Beirut with Lebanon’s Parliament speaker, a key interlocutor with Hezbollah. A top U.S. [...]

Israel and Hezbollah indicated they were clashing deeper inside Lebanese territory. An escalation could undermine efforts to reach a cease-fire, as Iran’s leader signaled he supported ending the war with […]

The Biden administration had warned that the United States would consider any Iranian attempt on Mr. Trump’s life to be “an act of war,” officials said. Iran sent a message […]

El multimillonario de la industria tecnológica, uno de los principales asesores del presidente electo Donald Trump, habría discutido formas de reducir las tensiones entre Irán y Estados Unidos. Elon Musk, […]

The tech billionaire, a top adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, was reported to have discussed ways to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States. Elon Musk, a close [...]

Some in Iran’s new, more moderate government think the result of the presidential election provides an opportunity to make a lasting deal with the United States. President Donald J. Trump [...]

At a U.N. Security Council meeting on the aid crisis in Gaza, envoys from the United States, France and Britain were among dozens of speakers denouncing the Israeli legislation. The […]

As Iran awaited a potential counter strike from Israel on Saturday, senior officials and members of the Iranian news media were all asking a similar question: Where is Brig. Gen. [...]

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led Friday prayers for the first time in years, called for pan-Muslim unity against Israel and the United States at a memorial service for Hassan Nasrallah. [...]

As Iran awaits possible retaliation strikes by Israel, its senior officials threatened to hit back with force and the armed forces were placed on highest alert. But in interviews and [...]

Iran fired several waves of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday evening in a sudden assault that raised the likelihood of a direct all-out war between two of the most [...]

The barrage of missile fire came after much debate among Iranian leaders, officials there say. After days of sharp debate at the top levels of government, Iran’s senior military commanders [...]

El ataque supone una fuerte escalada en el prolongado conflicto entre ambos países y podría sumir aún más a la región en el caos. https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaYKhdv5q08fphYVt40M Irán disparó varias oleadas de [...]

Leaders in Tehran suggested it would be the Lebanese militia that would strike back at Israel after the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and bombings in Beirut. In the turbulent landscape [...]

Hours after Israeli forces carried out strikes on residential buildings in Lebanon in an attempt to kill Hezbollah’s top commanders, diplomats and foreign ministers warned that the Middle East was [...]

Israel’s airstrikes south of Beirut flattened several buildings and targeted Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/01/world/israel-lebanon-hezbollah Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Friday night summoned the Supreme National Council to [...]

In his fourth and final address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Biden reflected on the conflicts he witnessed during his career in public service, and warned on Tuesday [...]

António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, warned that “a powder keg risks engulfing the world” as he urged world leaders gathered for the General Assembly on Tuesday [...]

In his first address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, the newly elected president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, will try to defuse tensions with the West by setting a [...]

“Russia can only be forced into peace.” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine urged the Council members to sustain their backing for his country’s resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion. President Volodymyr [...]

In his first address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, the new president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, said he was elected to steer Iran into a new era of [...]

Beginning Tuesday, world leaders will discuss three wars, climate change, rising sea levels and proposals to expand representation on the Security Council. When the United Nations General Assembly convenes on [...]

The comments from an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps leader suggested that a widely feared regional conflict might be averted, at least for the moment. A senior Iranian military official said [...]

Iran is expected to delay planned reprisals against Israel for the assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran to allow mediators time to make a high-stakes push for a [...]

Secretary General António Guterres’s public comments came just before Gazan health authorities announced the first case of the disease in the enclave in many years. The United Nations secretary general, [...]

Officials have denied Narges Mohammadi medical care, the attorney told Iranian news media, raising concerns about Ms. Mohammadi’s well-being. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Iranian human rights activist Narges [...]

Mohammad Javad Zarif’s resignation shocked Iran’s political circles and came as President Masoud Pezeshkian announced that his cabinet would include several conservatives and only one woman. Iran’s new president, Masoud [...]

Iranians say they have not been told how to prepare should broad hostilities break out between their country and Israel. All government agencies and offices were closed Wednesday in Tehran, [...]

President Biden convened his national security team and spoke with King Abdullah II of Jordan, and foreign ministers from Islamic countries plan to gather in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Diplomats [...]

Iran has begun a sweeping investigation into the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, with its intensity a sign of how damaging and shocking the security failure was. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/04/world/israel-hamas-hezbollah-iran-gaza Iran has arrested [...]

Iranian officials condemned the attack and warned that Hezbollah and Lebanon had the right to retaliate against Israel. Israel’s strike on Beirut on Tuesday came as senior leaders of the [...]

The strike was in retaliation for a deadly rocket attack this weekend in the Golan Heights. At least three civilians were killed and 74 others wounded on Tuesday, Lebanese officials [...]

Ismail Haniyeh, one of the most senior Hamas leaders, was assassinated in Iran, the country’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and Hamas said on Wednesday, a severe blow to the Palestinian group [...]

A marked convoy run by UNICEF, the United Nations’ relief agency for children, came under fire in Gaza on Tuesday while on its way to pick up five children as [...]

Masoud Pezeshkian, a widowed doctor, portrays himself as a reformer who can bring social and economic shifts. But others have tried and failed before him, and numerous obstacles are in [...]

Masoud Pezeshkian, a cardiac surgeon and relative moderate in the ruling establishment, defeated an ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator in a runoff. In an election upset in Iran, the reformist candidate [...]

For the first time in years, the outcome is difficult to predict, and could be decided by how many people end their boycotts and participate in the vote. One pledged [...]

The U.N. Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-backed cease-fire plan for the Gaza Strip after Russia opted not to block it, adding extra heft to a growing international push [...]

The report will be presented to members of the Security Council next week and released publicly on June 18, the U.N. said. The United Nations will add Israel as well […]

The U.S. Central Command said its forces had destroyed four aerial drones and two anti-ship missiles in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Friday, as well as a Houthi patrol boat […]

The International Atomic Energy Agency acted in the face of Iran’s refusal to allow experts to examine its stepped-up nuclear enrichment program. The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency on Wednesday [...]

Algeria, the only Arab representative in the current makeup of the Security Council, drafted the resolution. Seeking to harness the outrage over an Israeli strike on Sunday that set fire [...]

The United Nations said on Tuesday that it was struggling to maintain its operations in Gaza because of Israel’s expanding military offensive in Rafah, including a devastating strike on a [...]

As a frenzied quest began for the fallen helicopter of President Ebrahim Raisi, Iran moved to control possible threats from abroad and unrest at home. Shortly before embarking on a [...]

On Today’s Episode: * Raisi Dies in Crash, Iranian State Media Report, * International Criminal Court Prosecutor Requests Warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas Leaders, * Prosecutors Poised to Conclude Trump [...]

The hard-line Shiite cleric was seen as a possible successor to Iran’s supreme leader. Mr. Raisi’s death comes at a moment of turbulence for a country facing a deepening conflict [...]

The deaths of two of Iran’s most high-profile leaders — President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian — come at a tumultuous time for the country. The deaths [...]