TEHRAN: An attacker stabbed to death an Iranian Shia Muslim cleric on Tuesday and wounded two others, one of them seriously, in Mashhad, said officials and state media. The assailant and four suspected accomplices were arrested after the bloody attack in the Imam Ali Reza shrine’s courtyard, said Mohammad-Hossein Doroudi, the chief prosecutor of the northeastern city.“ The attacker is a foreign national, ” he told the Fars news agency, without specifying the country. Amateur video footage showed

The United States has granted Afghanistan an exemption to sanctions imposed on Iran to import fuel, though U.S.-backed Afghan security forces are prohibited from using it.... Iran is Afghanistan’s largest trade partner, and the crossing is crucial to the economy of Herat Province and western Afghanistan.... The province’s capital, the city of Herat, is about 75 miles east of the border crossing, located on a major commercial transit route between Afghanistan and Iran.“ All of our forces and ou

Majid Asgaripour/ WANA( West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION He had called and emailed the U.S. Embassy for days without a response.... Then a U.S. soldier phoned him to say his only chance for a flight out was alone, without his daughters who are not U.S. citizens.... “ I know that is impossible to say to a population that is very scared for the future.” Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay; Editing by Heather Timmons and Lincoln Feast. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Tru

In this May 15, 2021 file photo, Ebrahim Raisi, then head of Iran's judiciary, waves to journalists while registering his candidacy for the upcoming presidential elections, in Tehran, Iran.... Given the brinkmanship over its accelerating nuclear program and the West alleging that Tehran launched a fatal drone attack targeting an oil tanker linked to an Israeli billionaire last week, one might think that had already happened.... Iran's inauguration of President-elect Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday r

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