Iran

The U.S. intelligence community says Iran is to blame for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s runoff presidential election, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.

Iranians are voting in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi. The race’s sole reformist candidate vowed to seek “friendly relations” with the West in an effort to energize supporters in a vote beset by apathy. Voters face a choice Friday between hard-line candidates and the little-known Masoud Pezeshkian.

The apparent crash of a helicopter carrying Iran’s president and foreign minister has sent shock waves around the region. Here’s what to know.

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, state media reported Monday morning. NBC’s Drew Petrimoulx has the latest on this developing story.

Iran has appointed a new president after former President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash over the weekend, and the Bay Area’s Iranian-American community is hopeful it could lead to change driven by the people. Bob Redell reports.

Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed president of the Islamic Republic after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in the country’s northwest.

Bay Area residents react after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others were found dead at the site of a helicopter crash. Alyssa Goard reports.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the country’s supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels and launched a major drone-and-missile attack on Israel, has died.

Demonstrators in the East Bay protested Tehran’s killing and imprisonment of its critics on Sunday.

As the search continued for Iran’s president after his helicopter went down in the mountainous northwest of the country, demonstrators around the world protested Tehran’s killing and imprisonment of its critics on Sunday. Thom Jensen reports. 

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63.

Iran’s attack against Israel over the weekend has spurred a flurry of bipartisan legislative action in Congress.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is warning of potential global “economic spillovers” from rising tensions in the Middle East as the White House pledged to exact new sanctions against Iran.

Bay Area faith leaders are hoping the increasing tensions in the Middle East won’t widen the conflict further or lead to an increase in hate crimes and violence in the region.

Bay Area faith leaders are hopeful tensions in the Middle East are cooling and they want to see the same for the region because events overseas led to hate crimes and violence at home in the past.. Thom Jensen reports.

Bay Area residents are reacting after Iran launched an attack against Israel on Saturday.

Bay Area residents are reacting after Iran launched an attack against Israel on Saturday. Thom Jensen reports.

Israel’s multilayered air-defense system is credited with protecting the country from serious damage or casualties from an Iranian strike by more than 300 drones and ballistic missiles.

Booms and air raid sirens sounded across Israel early Sunday after Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Middle East closer to a regionwide war.