Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Turkey on Sept. 10 conveyed condolences to the Iraqi people over the loss of lives in a stampede during a religious ceremony.     

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday the United States had nothing to show for its appearance at the U.N. General Assembly this week, extending an exchange of insults with Tehran's arch-adversary.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sept. 9 urged Iran's armed forces to increase their power to "scare off" the enemy, according to his official website, as the country faces increased tension with the United States.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday that the country's economic problems were the result of internal mismanagement by the government and not just US pressure.

A top aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on July 13 that Iran would immediately withdraw its "military advisers" from Syria and Iraq only if their governments wanted it to.

Argentina has asked Russia to arrest former Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati for extradition in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, the foreign ministry said on July 12.

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pugnacious moderate who survived for decades despite challenging his own turbaned elite, died on Jan. 8 after suffering a heart attack.

The latest elections for the Iranian Parliament (the Majlis) and the Assembly of Experts took place on Feb. 26, 2016.

The latest election results are a win-win situation for Iran. Moderates with the support of reformists have seemingly won a landslide victory, but this is not a defeat for the hardline side of the regime.

Iranian moderates have won a majority in parliament and a top clerical body charged with selecting the next supreme leader, dealing a major blow to hard-liners in the first elections held since last summer's landmark nuclear agreement with world powers.