Topic: Saeed Jalili

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian unexpectedly won Iran's presidential election with 16.3 million votes during Friday's runoff election.

No candidate secured a simple majority of votes in a four-way race for Iran's presidency Friday, forcing a run-off election Friday.

Iranians were headed to the polls Friday in a snap presidential elections to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi who was killed in a helicopter crash last month.

Iran's hard-line conservative ex-president has said he will run in the next presidential election, according to Iran state media.

The Iranian government on Tuesday released a list of seven candidates it has approved to run for president in next month's election to succeed President Hassan Rouhani.

An intercepted order from Iran instructs militants in Iraq to hit the U.S. Embassy and other interests if a military strike on Syria occurs, U.S. officials said.

Iranian officials signaled Tuesday they may change the leader of their nuclear negotiating team, possibly tapping a diplomat educated in the United States.

Iran's new president took to Twitter Tuesday to say he thinks negotiations over the nation's hotly debated nuclear enrichment program could prove fruitful.

A nuclear negotiating team from Iran is waiting on word from its diplomatic partners on whether to hold talks in Kazakhstan, an Iranian envoy said.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei matters more in terms of foreign policy than the next Iranian president, a U.S. expert on Iran said Friday.