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West’s appeasing of sworn enemies doesn’t work

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Holding a poster of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, students attend an annual rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, marking the 45th anniversary of Iranian students' takeover of the embassy, starting a hostage crisis. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

U.S. says Iranian-American held in Iran as tensions high following Israeli attack on country

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd during a meeting with school and university students, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader threatens ‘a crushing response’ over Israeli attack

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Radical Islam spreads in America from Muslim religious leaders illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Radical Islam spreads in U.S. via Muslim religious leaders

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Reformist candidate for the Iran's presidential election Masoud Pezeshkian clenches his fist after casting his vote as he is accompanied by former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, at a polling station in Shahr-e-Qods near Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 5, 2024. Iranians are voting in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country’s northwest along with the foreign minister and several other officials. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Reformist Pezeshkian beats hard-liner to win Iran presidential election, promising outreach to West

By Jon Gambrell and Amir Vahdat - Associated Press

Reformist candidate for the Iran's presidential election Masoud Pezeshkian clenches his fist after casting his vote as he is accompanied by former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, at a polling station in Shahr-e-Qods near Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 5, 2024. Iranians are voting in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country’s northwest along with the foreign minister and several other officials. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Reformist Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential runoff election, besting hard-liner Jalili

By Jon Gambrell and Amir Vahdat - Associated Press

Maryam Rajavi, acting president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (Photo courtesy of Siavosh Hossein, The Media Express)

Iranian dissident leader sees troubled regime entering ‘its final stages’

By Staff - The Washington Times

Reformist candidate for the Iran's presidential election Masoud Pezeshkian waves as he arrives to vote at a polling station in Shahr-e-Qods near Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 5, 2024. Iranians began voting Friday in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month, as public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran holds runoff presidential vote pitting hard-line former negotiator against reformist lawmaker

By Jon Gambrell and Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

A woman fills out her ballot during the Iranian presidential election in a polling station at the shrine of Saint Saleh in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 28, 2024. Iranians were voting Friday in a snap election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month, as public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran votes in snap poll for new president after hard-liner’s death, but turnout remains a question

By Jon Gambrell and Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gestures in a ceremony to mark the Shiite holiday of Eid al-Ghadir, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Khamenei called Tuesday for "maximum" voter turnout in this week's presidential election to "overcome the enemy," denouncing politicians who he described as believing that everything good comes from the United States. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader calls for ‘maximum’ turnout for presidential election as voter apathy high

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in his meeting with a group of senior military leaders, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 21, 2024. Iran's supreme leader on Sunday dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that despite launching a massive assault, few projectiles actually made through to their targets. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader tacitly acknowledges Tehran hit little in its massive attack on Israel

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A nuclear-armed Iranian Islamic empire throughout the Middle East and beyond

All the ayatollah’s men: Iran’s proxies are fighting on many fronts

By Clifford D. May

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, listens to army commander Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi during a graduation ceremony for a group of armed forces cadets in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

In first comments, Iran’s supreme leader says his country not behind Hamas assault on Israel

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Iranian Narges Mohammadi, delegate of the Center for Human Rights Defenders, listens to a question during a press conference on the Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Iran, at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 9, 2008. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi for fighting oppression of women in Iran. The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the prize Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 in Oslo. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP, File)

Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Iranian women 20 years apart trace tensions with the West

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows students of the Sharif University of Technology attend a protest sparked by the death in September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country's morality police, in Tehran, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. (AP Photo)

Iran’s elite technical university emerges as hub of protests

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press