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Byline: Farnaz Fassihi As Iran faces domestic and foreign challenges, its bellicose rhetoric on the United States and Israel has given way to signs that it wants less confrontation. In [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi 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 [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Tehran has several plans for responding to a threatened retaliatory strike by Israel, depending on its severity, and might also do nothing, insiders say. As it braces [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi 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 [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi 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 [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi 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 [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar 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 [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar Iranians say they have not been told how to prepare should broad hostilities break out between their country and Israel. All government agencies and [...]

Byline: Ronen Bergman, Mark Mazzetti and Farnaz Fassihi Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where [...]

Byline: David E. Sanger and Farnaz Fassihi The killing of Hamas's political leader in Tehran was a humiliating security failure for the Iranian government. Most new Iranian presidents have months [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi 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 [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi, Alissa J. Rubin and Russell Goldman Candidates in the campaign to fill the seat of President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash, showed notable candor [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar In a sign that a women-led movement has gained ground, all of the men running for president have distanced themselves from the harsh tactics [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi A special presidential election campaign is featuring blistering attacks on the status quo by conservatives and the lone reformer alike. The campaign billboards adorning the streets of [...]

Byline: Erika Solomon and Farnaz Fassihi 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 [...]

Byline: Ronen Bergman, Farnaz Fassihi, Eric Schmitt, Adam Entous and Richard Pérez-Peña Israeli officials say they didn't see a strike on a high-level Iranian target in Syria as a provocation, [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi, Ronen Bergman and Eric Schmitt The covert operation, described by U.S., Iranian and Israeli officials, is heightening concerns that Iran is seeking to turn the West Bank [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Whether handing in blank ballots or voting for fringe candidates, analysts say, citizens registered their frustration with the status quo. Iranians have delivered a stinging rebuke to [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes Tehran, wary of igniting open warfare with Washington, has told militia groups it backs to curtail assaults on targets such as [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Refugees who joined the largely overlooked Fatemiyoun Brigade to battle for Shiite Islam and escape crushing poverty had become a force in Tehran's proxy wars. It was [...]

Byline: David E. Sanger and Farnaz Fassihi American airstrikes hit Iran-linked targets in Syria and Iraq to retaliate for the recent killing of three U.S. soldiers in Jordan. As Iran [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi After Iran-aligned militants killed three American soldiers, Iran's leaders sensed a line was crossed, and are sending more conciliatory signals while awaiting President Biden's promised response. Iran's [...]

Byline: Salman Masood and Farnaz Fassihi The exchange of attacks came as the upheaval sweeping the Middle East threatened to expand. In an expansion of hostilities rippling through the region, [...]

Byline: Vivian Yee and Farnaz Fassihi The country has hit targets in Syria, Iraq and Pakistan with missiles this week, signaling to hard-line supporters that it is not passive in [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi For years Iran justified its military presence in Iraq and Syria, to its own people and the world, as a strategy for keeping terrorist groups at bay. [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar It all started when a 70-year-old fish market stall owner nicknamed 'Booghy' was grooving in public, in violation of Iranian law. A new form [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi While some critics say the world body is paralyzed by political differences, its humanitarian agencies are helping needy people in Gaza and other places around the world. [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi With Israel bent on crushing Iran's ally Hamas, Tehran must decide whether it and the proxy militias it arms and trains will live up to its fiery [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman Officials from Iran and Hezbollah helped plan the attack, people familiar with the operation said, but the U.S. and its allies have not found [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Exactly what happened to Armita Geravand, 16, is unclear, but the circumstances have fueled accusations that agents enforcing Iran's dress code must have harmed her. The 16-year-old [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Almost everyone agrees on the need for changes, but there is little agreement on what to do and nearly insuperable hurdles to doing anything. For more than [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Her face has lit up a billboard in Times Square, and been painted on murals in Paris and Berlin. It has been splashed on the Barcelona soccer [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Sept. 16 marks one year since Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the morality police, setting off months of protests. Authorities are trying to quell any [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi The invitation came after a tumultuous year of domestic unrest and economic gloom, and follows a pivot by the country toward Russia and China. Over the past [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi and Arash Khamooshi Ashura, which mourns the killing of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson and celebrates Shiite identity, has long symbolized the fight against oppression. This year, its [...]

Byline: Michael Crowley, Ronen Bergman and Farnaz Fassihi Iran and the United States appear to be observing an informal agreement under which Iran has limited its nuclear program and restrained [...]

Byline: Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Ivan Nechepurenko, Liz Alderman and Farnaz Fassihi Moscow, which has repeatedly complained that the U.N.-brokered agreement is one-sided in Ukraine's favor, said it could return to [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar Iran's prohibition of the drinking and selling of alcohol has led to a flourishing underground market. But even officials have acknowledged a wave of [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi When Narges Mohammadi was just a little girl, her mother told her to never become political. The price of fighting the system in a country like Iran [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman In January, Iran executed a former senior official who provided Britain with valuable intelligence on Iranian nuclear and military programs over a decade, according [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi and Vivian Yee Long seen as a regional troublemaker and on the defensive from advances made by Israel, Iran sees the restoration of ties with its rival [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi An engineer strode onstage at an event in Tehran, wearing tight pants and a stylish shirt, and clutching a microphone in one hand. Her long brown hair, [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi and Cora Engelbrecht An updated look at the Iranians who have been hanged, and those on death row, as the government tries to crush a monthslong uprising. [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi In the second execution in just a few days, a 23-year-old protester was hanged from a construction crane at dawn in the city of Mashhad, galvanizing a [...]

Byline: Cora Engelbrecht and Farnaz Fassihi The unit responsible for enforcing the country's strict Islamic dress code for women has been shut down, a concession to protesters. But the hijab [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Hundreds of minors have been detained for joining the demonstrations, and many others have died in the crackdown, according to Iranian lawyers and rights activists. One girl, [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Iran's security forces shot at windows and threw stun grenades in a raid at the Shahrak Ekbatan complex, where a member of the feared Basij militia was [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi The cause of the fire last weekend remains unclear, but witnesses and families of prisoners say that the authorities had been bracing for unrest in the notorious [...]

Byline: Ben Hubbard and Farnaz Fassihi The Revolutionary Guards - the country's most powerful military force - have become so deeply woven into Iran's economy and power structure that they [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi The 16-year-old girls were killed by the Iranian security services in a crackdown on the protests that have rocked the country for the past month. As unrest [...]