Hassan Rouhani

Virus outbreak in Iran sickens hundreds, including leaders

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After facing sanctions and the risk of war amid tensions with the United States, Iran...
13:31 28 February 2022

An increasingly isolated Iran tries to control virus crisis

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran girded Wednesday for a long battle against the coronavirus that is spreading rap...
17:37 26 February 2022

Iran remembers 1979 Islamic Revolution amid high US tension

TEHRAN, Iran — Hundreds of thousands across Iran marked the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution on Tuesday amid some of the highest tensions ev...
9:21 11 February 2022

Iran may block UN inspectors if it faces a ‘new situation’

ML--Iran-Nuclear — Iran’s president said Monday that Tehran might reconsider providing U.N. inspectors with access to Iran's nuclear facilities if the...
20:11 3 February 2022

Video: 20 seconds of terror between missiles in Iran crash

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's top diplomat acknowledged Wednesday that Iranians “were lied to" for days after the Islamic Republic accidentally...
17:10 15 January 2022

Crash may be grim echo of US downing of Iran flight in 1988

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Western allegation that Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner and killed 176 people offers a grim echo for the Islamic...
12:13 10 January 2022

Iran sends mixed signals as tensions with US ease

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran sent mixed signals Thursday as tensions with the U.S. appeared to ease, with President Hassan Rouhani warning of a “very dangerous...
14:52 9 January 2022

Blowback: Iran abandons nuclear limits after US killing

TEHRAN, Iran — The blowback over the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general mounted Sunday as Iran announced it will no longer abide by the limits cont...
20:34 5 January 2022

US kills Iran’s most powerful general in Baghdad airstrike

BAGHDAD — The United States killed Iran's top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad's interna...
5:03 3 January 2022

Iran’s Rouhani in Japan to meet Japan PM amid nuke impasse

TOKYO — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is visiting Tokyo to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday in hopes of easing a nuclear impa...
9:23 20 December 2021

Iran leader urges deeper Muslim links to fight US ‘hegemony’

KUALA LUMPUR. Malaysia — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday urged Muslim nations to deepen financial and trade cooperation to fight what he ...
7:39 19 December 2021

Mahathir: Islamic conference in KL to tackle Islamophobia

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Wednesday an Islamic conference that includes leaders from Iran, Turkey and Qatar is aim...
15:09 18 December 2021

Protests grip major Iran cities over gas prices; 1 killed

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Protesters angered by Iran raising government-set gasoline prices by 50% blocked traffic in major cities and occasionall...
18:58 16 November 2021

Iran underground lab helps produce more low-enriched uranium

TEHRAN, Iran — The head of Iran's nuclear program told The Associated Press on Monday that the country is now producing more low-enriched uranium dail...
9:30 11 November 2021

Iran discovers new oil field with over 50 billion barrels

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country's south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find tha...
19:54 10 November 2021

Iran to fuel centrifuges in new step away from nuclear deal

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will start injecting uranium gas into over a thousand centrifuges at a fortified nuclear facility built inside a mountain, the cou...
17:06 5 November 2021