Nasser Karimi

People carry packages at Tehran’s historic Grand Bazaar, Iran, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran fires missiles and US strikes Iran facility after reports of faltering peace talks

June 2, 2026 at 8:24 p.m.

Year-on-year inflation in Iran reached a level in May unseen since World War II, underlining the economic pain average Iranians face as the Islamic Republic worries about the war with...

A currency exchange bureau worker counts U.S. dollars at Ferdowsi square, Tehran’s go-to venue for foreign currency exchange, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s currency falls to a record low against the dollar as tensions run high

April 5, 2025 at 1:25 p.m.

Iran’s rial currency traded Saturday at a record low against the U.S. dollar as the country returned to work after a long holiday, costing over 1 million rials for a...

Iranian demonstrators burn a representation of the U.S. flag during a rally commemorating anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the late pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought Islamic clerics to power, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

With Trump in the White House, Iranians mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution

February 10, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.

Tens of thousands of Iranians marked the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, the first such rally since President Donald Trump returned to the White House and restarted his...

A cleric walks in front of a shopping center in northern Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran praises US for cutting foreign aid funding as it looks for a Trump message on nuclear talks

February 5, 2025 at 8:35 a.m.

Iran’s government seems to be welcoming some recent decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to...

Vehicles drive past an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel banner with writing in Farsi reading: “America is the great Satan”, and in Hebrew “America will throw you away like used toilet paper”, at the Felestin (Palestine) Sq. in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s currency falls to an all-time low as Trump clinches the US presidency

November 6, 2024 at 8:20 a.m.

Iran’s currency fell on Wednesday to an all-time low as Donald Trump clinched the U.S. presidency again, signaling new challenges ahead for Tehran as it remains locked in the wars...

In this photo released on Oct. 1, 2018, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, a missile is fired from city of Kermanshah in western Iran targeting the Islamic State group in Syria.

Iran fires ballistic missiles at Syria militants over attack

August 22, 2019 at 2:27 p.m.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard launched six ballistic missiles as well as drone bombers early Monday toward eastern Syria, targeting militants it blamed for an attack on a military parade last month...

President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with a group of foreign ministry officials in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 22, 2018.

Iran dismisses President Trump’s explosive threat to country’s leader

August 22, 2019 at 9:41 a.m.

Iranians on Monday shrugged off the possibility that a bellicose exchange of words between President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart could escalate into military conflict, but expressed growing concern...

March 7, 2017: The first of the large Boeing 737 MAX 9 models, Boeing's newest commercial airplane, sits outside its production plant, in Renton, Wash.

Boeing Co. says it signed new $3 billion deal with Iranian airline

June 5, 2018 at 1:22 p.m.

Boeing Co. said on Tuesday it has signed a new, $3 billion deal with Iran's Aseman Airlines to supply 30 737 MAX aircraft to the carrier, the first major sale...

Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, smiles as he attends a presidential campaign of President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran.

Washington Post reporter jailed in Iran went to Wheaton Central

May 14, 2019 at 3:23 p.m.

A Washington Post reporter jailed for almost nine months in Iran was a student at Wheaton Central High School from 1990 to 1992, Erica Loiacono, director of public relations for...

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