Ali Khamenei

China-Middle East relations

Will Trump’s pressure tactics derail hopes for a nuclear deal with Iran?

10 Feb 2025 - 3:12PMvideocam

China urges Israel to ‘de-escalate’ after Hezbollah leader killed in Lebanon

29 Sep 2024 - 8:45PM

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Ebrahim Raisi

Video | Who will be Iran’s next president?

20 May 2024 - 6:41PM

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Iran marks Islamic revolution with demand to expel Israel from UN

Since the 1979 revolution the Muslim power has had deeply hostile relations with Israel, the US and Britain, but tensions have spiralled since the Israel-Gaza war began in October.

11 Feb 2024 - 8:41PMvideocam

Iran to ‘decisively respond’ to any US strike, Biden mulls Jordan attack response

The warning from Iran’s UN Ambassador follows President Joe Biden’s linking of Tehran to the killing of three US soldiers at a military base in Jordan.

31 Jan 2024 - 9:00PMvideocam

Iran launches satellite as part of Western-criticised programme

Tehran said it had conducted a successful launch of a satellite into its highest orbit yet, in a space programme that the West fears will improve the country’s ballistic missile capabilities.

21 Jan 2024 - 5:02PMvideocam

Iran said on Saturday it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles. Photo: Weibo

Israel launches deadly Gaza strikes as Middle East tensions rise

Israeli bombing killed dozens of people overnight in Gaza, as regional tensions have surged following the killing of a Hamas leader, and deadly twin blasts in Iran killed more than 80 people.

4 Jan 2024 - 8:23PM

Hamas deputy chief was a key player until death in Beirut attack

Deputy Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri had long expected the Israeli drone strike that security sources said killed him in Beirut on Tuesday.

3 Jan 2024 - 11:36AM

Vladimir Putin

Russia’s Putin meets Saudi crown prince on whirlwind Gulf visit

The leaders discussed oil and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, during a rare overseas trip by the Russian president.

7 Dec 2023 - 4:14AM

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a welcome ceremony in the capital Riyadh on Wednesday. Photo: Saudi Press Agency via AFP

Art

Iranian tattoo artists are leaving their mark on a changing society

Getting a tattoo in Iran has become popular, with young people not afraid to display theirs in public despite the Islamic country’s conservative attitudes. Women as well as men are getting inked.

6 Dec 2023 - 5:07AM

An Iranian man shows his tattoos in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Iranian tattoo artists have seen tattoos gain popularity in recent years, with some clients seeing them as a form of self-expression, others as an act of defiance against conservative Islam. Photo: AFP

Iran accuses US of ‘encouraging’ Israel to kill and commit ‘cruel acts’ in Gaza

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has accused the US of “encouraging” Israel to kill Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid rising tensions in the region over the Israel-Gaza war.

6 Nov 2023 - 7:19PM

US strikes Iran-linked facilities in Syria after attacks on US troops

Pentagon warns the US will take additional measures if attacks by Iran’s proxies continue.

27 Oct 2023 - 4:11PM

US-Iran tensions

Joe Biden warns Iran against targeting US troops in the Middle East

The US president sent a rare message to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning Tehran against targeting US personnel in the Middle East after a spate of attacks on American forces in the region.

27 Oct 2023 - 6:57AMvideocam

US President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington o Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

Hundreds of Iraqis protest at border and US embassy calling for an end to Gaza blockade

Bus-loads of PMF supporters headed for the crossing point closest to Israeli-occupied West Bank, while hundreds also gathered in Baghdad near the Green Zone, home to the US embassy and other missions.

20 Oct 2023 - 11:52PMvideocam

A demonstrator burns a copy of an American flag, as supporters of Iraqi Shi’ite armed groups gather to protest against the US for supporting Israel, and in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Photo: Reuters

Israel’s military weighs war options as Biden heads to region

Israel has massed troops at the Gaza border for an expected ground offensive. But an Israeli army spokesman said the next stages ‘might be something different’.

17 Oct 2023 - 9:54PM

US signals Iran won’t access its US$6 billion in Qatar any time soon

The question of Iranian access to the funds has been in the spotlight since Iran-backed Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel on Saturday.

13 Oct 2023 - 4:11PM

Israel

Opinion | As thousands suffer in Israel-Hamas war, only one country benefits

Iran’s enduring hostility towards Israel is in no small part due to its close ties with the shah and Israel’s role in his oppression of the Iranian people.

12 Oct 2023 - 4:52PMvideocam

Iranian women walk next to a huge Palestinian flag hanging on a wall in Tehran. The Iranian government openly supported the Hamas attack on Israel and urged the Muslim community to stand by the Palestinians. Photo: EPA-EFE

How secretive Hamas commander masterminded attack on Israel

Israel calls last week’s devastating attack by Hamas its 9/11 moment. The secretive mastermind behind the assault, Palestinian militant Mohammed Deif, calls it Al Aqsa Flood.

11 Oct 2023 - 5:26PM

Explainer | Could the Israel-Gaza war become multi-front involving Iran and Hezbollah?

The Israel-Gaza war is set to put the region on a knife-edge with risks of escalation involving Iran, its Lebanon-based ally Hezbollah and even others.

19 Oct 2023 - 11:59PMvideocam

Iran lauds Hamas attack on Israel even as it denies involvement

There is no evidence of Iran’s involvement in the surprise weekend attack by Hamas on Tehran’s arch-enemy Israel. Iran, however, is a key sponsor of the Palestinian Islamist group.

10 Oct 2023 - 11:23AM

Palestinian militants ride a captured Israeli military vehicle that was seized by gunmen who infiltrated areas of southern Israel on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

Iranians remember Mahsa Amini amid fears of clampdown to prevent riots

Activists caution of renewed crackdowns and ‘chokehold on dissent’ to prevent a repeat of last year’s riots that followed the death of Mahsa Amini.

16 Sep 2023 - 6:26PMvideocam

In Melbourne, Australia, protesters mark the one-year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in custody. Photo: EPA-EFE

Protesters storm Baghdad’s Green Zone over burning of Koran and Iraqi flag in Denmark

Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq’s government – two days after people angered by the planned burning of the Islamic holy book in Sweden stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad.

23 Jul 2023 - 2:40AM

Iraq expels Swedish ambassador over Koran burning

Iraq’s prime minister has cut diplomatic ties with Sweden in protest over the desecration of the Islamic holy book in Stockholm by an Iraqi asylum seeker.

20 Jul 2023 - 10:36PMvideocam

Saudi Arabia urges improved maritime security in Gulf as Iran ties resume

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan visited the Islamic republic on Saturday following a seven-year rupture. The two countries agreed in March to mend ties in a Chinese-brokered deal.

18 Jun 2023 - 12:53AMvideocam

Iran replaces long-time incumbent in powerful security post

Ali Shamkhani will be replaced by Ali Akbar Ahmadian, who sits on the country’s Expediency Council that advises the supreme leader.

22 May 2023 - 7:16PMvideocam

As more women forgo the hijab, Iran’s government pushes back

Authorities have made legal threats, closed some businesses serving women not wearing the hijab and are using CCTV to identify women without a hijab.

11 May 2023 - 3:57AMvideocam