Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shocked everyone by registering as a candidate last week against the advice of supreme ...

Other Facts:Rouhani is a cleric. His religious title is Hojatoleslam, which is a middle rank in the religious hierarchy. Arrested many times in the 1960s and 1970s as a follower of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Iran's former President Hassan Rohani has been disqualified from running in the upcoming election for the Assembly of Experts, a clerical body whose tasks include appointing and theoretically removing ...

Iran has opened its first oil terminal in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday, to allow Tehran to avoid using the Strait of Hormuz shipping route that has been a focus ...

Outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rohani says he has urged the country’s supreme leader to widen the field in next month’s presidential election after only seven candidates were approved and several ...

The weeklong fight over Iran’s next leader pitted the Revolutionary Guards against moderates. The generals won, but only over spirited resistance. By Farnaz Fassihi For the first time in years, the ...

Rouhani is a cleric. His religious title is Hojatoleslam, which is a middle rank in the religious hierarchy. Arrested many times in the 1960s and 1970s as a follower of Ayatollah Khomeini. Iranian ...

Within an hour of President Trump's announcement that he would not certify Iran's compliance with the nuclear deal, Iran's president took to the air and pushed back hard. President Hassan Rouhani ...