The leader of Friday Prayer in the majority Sunni-populated city of Zahedan has called for qualified Sunnis to be employed in the new government of President Hassan Rouhani, who was re-elected last week.
Leaders from the 28 NATO member states gathered in Brussels on May 25 to press for a strong show of support from U.S. President Donald Trump, who once characterized the security alliance as "obsolete."
President Hassan Rouhani has again implicitly blamed the Guardian Council for preventing his votes from rising to 28 million in the May 19 presidential election.
Will an increase in international troops numbers reverse the Taliban’s gains in Afghanistan over the past two years?
An Iraqi Kurdish push for independence from Baghdad appears likely to be a question of "not if but when," in a significant challenge to Iraq's stability, the head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency said on Tuesday.
President Hassan Rouhani’s win on May 19 was not the only election victory for Iranian moderates or reformists. After years of scant influence in local councils, the reformists achieved astonishing victories in several major cities.
Russian authorities are wrestling with how to handle an apparent surge in interest in political protests among young people, who have been forced to watch films and listen to lectures warning about the dangers of street politics.
A few days before voters went to polls, the Rouhani government published a 255-page plan, labeled Iran Again, which deals with all sorts of problems the country faces. But what this document says and does not say about the economy is revealing.
President Hassan Rohani has won an unequivocal victory over his conservative opponent in Iran's presidential election. What can we expect from a second term for the pragmatic Rohani?
Newly reelected President Hassan Rohani says the Iranian people are the "real victors" of the election and that Iran has chosen "engagement with the world" in voting for him, rejecting extremism.
Iranians yearning for detente abroad and greater freedoms at home have handed President Hassan Rouhani a second term, but the hardline forces he defeated in elections on Friday will remain defiantly opposed to his plans.
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