Ruhollah Khomeini
The president of Iran's national Olympic committee (NOC) Mahmoud Khosravi Vafa answers a reporter's question during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. Khosravi Vafa claimed that competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi will not be punished or suspended after competing in South Korea over the weekend without wearing her nation’s mandatory headscarf. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Iran's Olympic chief claims no punishment coming for climber

By Kim Tong-Hyung Oct. 20, 2022 08:43 AM EDT

FILE— In this Dec. 11, 2006, file photo, top cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, center, speaks during a conference on the Holocaust with Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman, left, from Austria, and Rabbi Ahron Cohen, right, from England, in Tehran, Iran. Mohtashamipour, a Shiite cleric who as Iran's ambassador to Syria helped found the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and lost his right hand to a book bombing reportedly carried out by Israel, died Monday, June 7, 2021, of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Iran cleric who founded Hezbollah, survived book bomb, dies

By Jon Gambrell Jun. 07, 2021 05:21 AM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Jun. 06, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Sunday, June 6, the 157th day of 2021. There are 208 days left in the year. Today’s...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Jun. 03, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Thursday, June 3, the 154th day of 2021. There are 211 days left in the year. Today’s...

Hospital workers move two bodies of patients who died from COVID-19, at the yard of the Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 18, 2021. After facing criticism for downplaying the virus last year, authorities have put partial lockdowns and other measures in place to try and slow the coronavirus’ spread, as Iran faces what looks like its worst wave of the coronavirus pandemic yet. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Sanctions-battered Iran, weary of pandemic, faces worst wave

By Nasser Karimi And Aya Batrawy Apr. 22, 2021 07:10 AM EDT

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani addresses the nation in a televised speech in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Rouhani said the West has no way except reaching an agreement with Tehran for restoring 2015 nuclear deal as the nation marked the anniversary of the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution on Wednesday on wheels - cars, motorcycles, bicycles - instead of traditional rallies and marches because of the region's worst outbreak of the coronavirus. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
Wheels only, please: Iran marks 1979 revolution anniversary

By Nasser Karimi Feb. 10, 2021 02:40 AM EST

Today in History

By The Associated Press Feb. 01, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Monday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2021. There are 333 days left in the year. Today’s...

FILE - In this December 2005 file photo, Rev. Robert Graetz, second from left, and wife, Jeannie, sing along with Gladys Williams, right, on the Cleveland Avenue bus, during the walk of remembrance to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Graetz, the only white minister to support the Montgomery bus boycott, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. He was 92. (Karen S. Doerr/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)
Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020

By David Crary Dec. 31, 2020 09:02 AM EST

A billboard carries a portrait of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian scientist linked to the country's nuclear program who was killed by unknown assailants last month, at the site of his killing in Absard east of the capital, Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Iran's supreme leader and the country's president both warned America on Wednesday that the departure of President Donald Trump does not immediately mean better relations between the two nations. The billboard also shows other slain nuclear scientists. The Persian reads: "the site of ascension of martyred scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh to heaven." (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran leaders: Biden arrival won't guarantee better relations

By Amir Vahdat Dec. 16, 2020 07:30 AM EST

Mourners carry the body of a person who died from COVID-19, at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. The cemetery is struggling to keep up with the coronavirus pandemic ravaging Iran, with double the usual number of bodies arriving each day and grave diggers excavating thousands of new plots. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
In Iran, a massive cemetery struggles to keep up with virus

By Mohammad Nasiri Nov. 11, 2020 01:05 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2020, file photo, rescue workers search the scene where an Ukrainian plane was shot down in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. An Iranian official said Sunday, Aug 23, 2020, that some data, including parts of cockpit conversations, have been retrieved from downed Ukrainian plane. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
Iran retrieves data, cockpit talk from downed Ukraine plane

By Nasser Karimi Aug. 23, 2020 05:11 AM EDT

In this image provided by the U.S. State Department, Michael White holds an American flag as he poses for a photo Thursday, June 4, 2020, with U.S. special envoy for Iran Brian Hook at the Zurich, Switzerland, airport after White’s release from Iran. White, a Navy veteran who's been detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and is making his way home, with the first leg on a Swiss government aircraft. (U.S. State Department via AP)
Iran doctor freed in swap for Navy veteran returns to Tehran

By Nasser Karimi Jun. 07, 2020 11:41 PM EDT

Two employees of Ski Dubai pack snow at Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Dubai on Wednesday loosed its restrictions imposed over the coronavirus pandemic, allowing movie theaters and other attractions to operate. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
Iran's newly elected parliament convenes despite pandemic

By Nasser Karimi May. 27, 2020 03:50 AM EDT

In this image taken from video, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday it put the Islamic Republic's first military satellite into orbit, dramatically unveiling what experts described as a secret space program with a surprise launch that came amid wider tensions with the United States. (IRIB via AP)
Iran's Guard says it launched satellite amid US tensions

By Amir Vahdat And Jon Gambrell Apr. 22, 2020 02:56 AM EDT

In this March 21, 2020 photo, work has halted on semi-finished construction projects due the the coronavirus outbreak, in Tehran, Iran. The typically frenetic streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran, have fallen silent and empty due to the virus outbreak that’s gripped the Islamic Republic. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
AP PHOTOS: Virus stills Iran's frenetic capital, Tehran

By Ebrahim Noroozi Apr. 09, 2020 02:10 AM EDT

This undated photo provided by Sister Maria Mabel Spagnuolo shows her, left, with Sister Maria Ortensia Turati. On March 16, 2020, Turati, who was the former mother general of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity in Tortona, Italy, died at age 88 as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Courtesy Sister Maria Mabel Spagnuolo via AP)
Dreaded uptick worldwide of dead spiritual leaders

By The Associated Press Apr. 08, 2020 02:20 PM EDT