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Iranian athlete Elnaz Rekabi competes during the women's Boulder &amp; Lead final during the IFSC Climbing Asian Championships in Seoul, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. Rekabi left South Korea on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation's mandatory headscarf covering, authorities said. Farsi-language media outside of Iran warned she may have been forced to leave early by Iranian officials and could face arrest back home, which Tehran quickly denied. (Rhea Khang/International Federation of Sport Climbing via AP)

Iran’s Elnaz Rekabi, who competed without hijab, returns to Tehran

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this June 13, 2006, file photo, Iranian female prisoners are at their cell in the Evin prison in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iranian officials say Tehran prison blaze killed 4 inmates

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In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sept. 21, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

New Iran nuclear deal not a priority for Biden, State Department says, as protests rock regime

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Illustration on Iranian protests by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Are Iran’s protesters revolutionaries?

By Jed Babbin

People protest against the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died while in police custody in Iran, in front of the Iranian embassy in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in Iran while in police custody, was arrested by Iran's morality police for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code.(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Lawmakers rally to condemn Iranian regime’s crackdown on protests over headscarf death

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Members of the exiled Komala Party inspect the aftermath of a bombing in the village of Zrgoiz, near Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, where the bases of several Iranian opposition groups are located, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. An Iranian drone bombing campaign targeting the bases of an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq has killed and wounded dozens. (AP PhotoAla Hoshyar, Metrography)

Iran attacks Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq as protests spiral at home

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Iranian women demonstrate for equal rights, March 12, 1979. Iran's Islamic Republic requires women to cover up in public. But many Iranian women have long played a game of cat-and-mouse with authorities as a younger generation wears their veils more loosely or skirts requirements for conservative dress. (AP Photo/Richard Tomkins, File)

Iran’s anti-veil protests draw on long history of resistance

By Amir-Hussein Radjy - Associated Press

In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sept. 21, 2022. (AP Photo. File)

Iran’s protests show no signs of slowing as anger at ‘morality police’ mounts

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Rescue workers sift through the rubble of the U.S. Marine base in Beirut in Oct. 23, 1983 following a massive bomb blast that destroyed the base and killed 241 American servicemen. Iran told the United Nation’s highest court on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, that Washington’s confiscation of some $2 billion in assets from Iranian state bank accounts to compensate bombing victims was an attempt to destabilize the Iranian government and a violation of international law. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 ruled money held in Iran’s central bank could be used to compensate victims of the 1983 bombing linked to Iran. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. urges UN court to toss out Iranian frozen assets case

By Mike Corder - 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

In this Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at a conference in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Longtime face of Iranian foreign policy exits stage as U.S., Iran nuclear talks stall

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a man pulls out a police motorcycle that is set on fire during a protest over the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country's conservative dress code, in downtown Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo)

U.N. calls for probe into Iranian woman’s death amid protests

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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

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President Donald Trump, center, with from left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Critics push Biden for more action on Abraham Accords at two-year mark

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a meeting of NATO ambassadors at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool)

Antony Blinken says Iran’s latest stance on nuclear deal a step ‘backwards’

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

This photo released by the U.S. Air Force, shows a B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, approaching a KC-10 Extender for refueling over the Middle East on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. The United States military said Monday it flew a pair of nuclear-capable B-52 long-distance bombers over the Middle East in a show of force, the latest such mission in the region as tensions remain high between Washington and Tehran. (Staff Sgt. Shannon Bowman/U.S. Air Force via AP)

U.S. B-52 bombers fly over Middle East amid tensions with Iran

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

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 sends nuclear talks response; U.S. casts doubt on offer

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

This photo released by the U.S. Navy shows the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ship Shahid Bazair, left, towing a U.S. Navy Saildrone Explorer in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. The U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet said Tuesday that Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized and later let go of a U.S. sea drone in the Persian Gulf. Iran did not immediately acknowledge the incident, though it comes amid heightened tensions over Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers. (U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S. Navy says Iran seized, later let go of American sea drone

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter fires rockets to engage a target during Super Garuda Shield 2022 joint military exercises in Baturaja, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. The United States and Indonesian militaries conducted the annual combat exercises on Indonesia's Sumatra island, joined for the first time by participants from other partner nations including Australia, Japan and Singapore, signaling stronger ties amid growing maritime activity by China in the Indo-Pacific region. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) **FILE**

Syrian strikes, U.S. casualties complicate Biden’s delicate diplomacy with Tehran

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt forgiveness in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Against the odds, Biden inches closer to nuclear deal with Iran

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times