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Iran demonstrators flash the victory sign in front of an anti-U.S. banner during an annual demonstration in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. Iran on Friday marked the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as its theocracy faces nationwide protests after the death of a 22-year-old woman earlier arrested by the country's morality police. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran marks 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover amid nationwide protests

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Iran’s leader blames U.S. for nuclear deal impasse; Biden vows no bomb for Tehran

By Guy Taylor and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, center, reviews an honor guard during his official departure ceremony as he leaves Tehran's Mehrabad airport to New York to attend annual UN General Assembly meeting, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. Raisi headed to New York on Monday, where he will be speaking to the U.N. General Assembly later this week, saying that he has no plans to meet with President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the U.N. event. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran president: No plan to meet Biden at U.N. General Assembly

Associated Press

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Iranian leader nixes any Biden meeting during U.N. gathering

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 21, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

World gathers in full at U.N. after turbulent pandemic years

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi listens to a question during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Raisi warned that any roadmap to restore Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers must see international inspectors end their probe on man-made uranium particles found at undeclared sites in the country. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Hundreds of Iranian Americans call on Biden to ban Iranian president from upcoming U.N. appearance

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. In a rare news conference Monday marking his first year in office, Raisi warned that any roadmap to restore Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers must see international inspectors end their probe on man-made uranium particles found at undeclared sites in the country. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)wld

Iran’s president: No way back to nuclear deal if probe goes on

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, back to a camera, on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on June 29, 2022. Putin's visit to Iran starting Tuesday, July 19, is intended to deepen ties with regional heavyweights as part of Moscow's challenge to the United States and Europe amid its grinding campaign in Ukraine. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin in Tehran for talks with leaders of Iran, Turkey

By Nasser Karimi and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Hard-line Iranian president proposes extensive cooperation accord on first trip to Russia

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. Raisi said Wednesday that a cyberattack which paralyzed every gas station in the Islamic Republic was designed to get "people angry by creating disorder and disruption," as long lines still snaked around the pumps a day after the incident began. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

‘Starting to be a problem’: Biden scrambles to stop Iran’s ‘increasingly dangerous’ nuclear program

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi attends a live televised interview with state-run TV, at the presidency office in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP) **FILE**

Iranian president taunts Biden, Trump in United Nations speech

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video provided by UN Web TV, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi remotely addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in a pre-recorded message, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, at U.N. headquarters. (UN Web TV via AP)

Emboldened Iran mocks U.S. as Biden’s hopes for nuclear deal fade

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

‘We cannot shower the Ayatollah with money in the hopes that he won’t use it to inflict terror’

By Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State (2018-2021), Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2017-2018)

President Ebrahim Raisi, right, takes his oath as president, as Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi listens in a ceremony at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran swears in new hard-line president amid regional tension

By Amir Vahdat - Associated Press

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, newly elected President Ebrahim Raisi, right, speaks after receiving official seal of approval of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, in an endorsement ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. A portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini hangs at top left. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s incoming president slams ‘tyrannical’ U.S. sanctions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this March 26, 2021, photo, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the West Side Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) **FILE**

Pompeo calls for stepped-up pressure on ‘weak’ Iranian regime

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

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

Q&A: Maryam Rajavi, dissident leader, puts spotlight on ‘the Iran of tomorrow’

By Staff

Illustration on the election of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

With Iran’s President-elect Raisi, silence begets murder

By Ali Safavi

Ebrahim Raisi, the henchman of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners.

End Culture of Impunity

By NCRI

Iran's new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s president-elect says he won’t meet with Biden

By Isabel Debre and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press