All posts tagged "Ebrahim Raisi"

Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday registered his candidacy for a presidential election this month, state media reported.

The Islamic republic goes to the polls on June 28 to replace ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19.

Ahmadinejad, 67, held the post for two straight terms from 2005 to 2013, a period marked by a standoff with the West especially over Iran’s nuclear programme and his incendiary remarks on Israel....

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened Israel with retaliation after two Iranian generals were killed in a suspected Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus. "The malicious regime will be punished by our brave men," he said on Tuesday in a statement a day after the strike. "We will make sure that they repent for this and similar crimes, God willing," he said. His comments came after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had already strongly condemned the attack and threatened to respond....