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FIFA told by Iran eventually women will be allowed at games

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, photo, two Iranian women make their way in a square while one of them wears the chador in downtown Tehran, Iran. Anger and frustration over the economy has been the main fuel for the surprise eruption of protests that began on Dec. 28, 2017. President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate, had promised that the lifting of most international sanctions under Iran’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with the West would revive the long-suffering economy. The end of sanctions did open up a new influx of cash from increased oil exports, but little of that has trickled down to the wider population. At the same time, Rouhani has enforced austerity policies that hit households hard.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s working class, facing dim prospects, fuels unrest

By LEE KEATH - Associated Press

While the abortive Green Revolution eight years ago was driven mainly by the children of wealthy political elites in Tehran in the wake of a questionable election, the spontaneous protests this time around are unfolding across the country and driven by what analysts describe as "the working poor" — a segment of the population that has little to lose in the face of a crackdown by the regime. (Associated Press)

Iran protests differ from 2009 Green Revolution

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017, photo taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a university student attends a protest inside Tehran University while a smoke grenade is thrown by anti-riot Iranian police, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo, File)

NY Times sides with Iranian regime over murdered protesters

By Larry O'Connor - The Washington Times

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Rouhani blasts Trump as ‘ignorant’ over nuclear deal

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani listens during a news conference, during his visit for the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday Sept. 20, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) ** FILE **

Rouhani says Iranians are waiting for an apology from Trump

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Iranian president: Trump’s UN comments ‘ignorant, absurd’

By JENNIFER PELTZ and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a session of parliament before a vote of confidence for his cabinet, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017. Iranian lawmakers on Sunday approved 16 Cabinet members nominated by recently re-elected President Hassan Rouhani, including the first defense minister unaffiliated with the elite, hard-line Revolutionary Guard in 25 years. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran approves nearly all of Rouhani’s Cabinet picks

Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a session of parliament to debate his proposed cabinet, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. Iran's president issued a direct threat to the West on Tuesday, claiming his country is capable of restarting its nuclear program within hours — and quickly bringing it to even more advanced levels than in 2015, when Iran signed the nuclear deal with world powers. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US Iran nuclear deal

By L. Todd Wood

Hassan Rouhani, Iranian president, threatens to revitalize nuclear program

Associated Press

This photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, shows an open session of the Iranian parliament in Tehran, Iran. Iran's parliament voted overwhelmingly Sunday to increase spending on its ballistic missile program and the foreign operations of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, chanting &quot;Death to America&quot; in a direct challenge to Washington's newest sanctions on the Islamic Republic. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian president threatens to revitalize nuclear program

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

In this photo released by official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a Cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Iran's president said Wednesday that his country will stand up to the United States and reciprocate for any new sanctions that America imposes on the Islamic Republic. (Iranian Presidency via AP)

Iran’s president says his country will ‘stand up to’ US

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

This 2009 handout photo released by a friend of Xiyue Wang, shows Xiyue Wang at his apartment in Hong Kong, China. Princeton University professor Stephen Kotkin, who advised Wang, a Chinese-American researcher sentenced to prison in Iran, defended his former student as innocent of all charges against him. Kotkin told The Associated Press by email that Xiyue Wang is a &quot;remarkable, linguistically gifted graduate student&quot; who studied governance in 19th and early 20th century Muslim regions. (Friend of Xiyue Wang via AP)

American scholar jailed in Iran is innocent, professor says

By ADAM SCHRECK - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Sunday, May 14, 2017, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, left, sits during a presidential election campaign as he is accompanied by his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in the city of Isfahan, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

AP Analysis: Rouhani’s hardest challenge may be Iran’s hopes

By ADAM SCHRECK - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 20, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visit an art exhibit with Saudi King Salam at the Royal Court Palace in Riyadh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

EDITORIAL: Thinking twice about ‘reform’ in Iran

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on the newly "elected" president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran elections still unfair and not free

By Clifford D. May

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 22, 2017. Rouhani, a cleric whose administration struck the 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers, decisively won a second term in Friday's election. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s president criticizes U.S. after Trump’s sharp words

By ADAM SCHRECK - Associated Press

A supporter holds a poster of Iranian presidential candidate cleric Ebrahim Raisi, the main challenger of President Hassan Rouhani, outside a polling station for the presidential and municipal councils election, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 19, 2017. Millions of Iranians voted late into the night Friday to decide whether incumbent President Hassan Rouhani deserves another four years in office after securing a landmark nuclear deal, or if the sluggish economy demands a new hard-line leader who could return the country to a more confrontational path with the West. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

The Latest: Nowegian FM welcomes Rouhani’s re-election

Associated Press

Iranian voters line up at a polling station for the presidential and municipal council election in the city of Qom, 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 19, 2017. Iranians began voting Friday in the country's first presidential election since its nuclear deal with world powers, as incumbent Hassan Rouhani faced a staunch challenge from a hard-line opponent over his outreach to the wider world. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran extends voting deadline in presidential election

By Adam Schreck and Amir Vahdat - Associated Press

Iranian presidential candidates held a televised debate Friday. (Associated Press)

Obama nuclear deal on Iran presidential ballot

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times