Iran

The Israel Defense Forces said Friday it is conducting “precise strikes on military targets in Iran.”

“Obviously, Iran has gone way out of — I mean, is way off court,” President Joe Biden said Wednesday. “And there’s going to be some sanctions imposed on Iran.”

As the conflict in the Middle East expands, one Bay Area man among the many Americans seeking safe shelter is struggling to get himself and his parents out of Lebanon and back home. Thom Jensen reports.

A San Mateo man says he is trying to be flee from Lebanon just as Iran launched an attack on Israel on Wednesday.

A San Mateo man says he is trying to flee from Lebanon just as Iran launched an attack on Israel on Wednesday. Jocelyn Moran reports. 

India’s Mohun Bagan Super Giants has refused to travel to Iran to play Tractor SC in an Asian Champions League Two match scheduled for Wednesday because of the escalating security problems in the country and region.

About 180 missiles were fired at Israel by Iran Tuesday in what’s become the latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East.

About 180 missiles were fired at Israel by Iran Tuesday in what’s become the latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East. Sergio Quintana reports.

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others. The disaster that began Saturday night is one of the worst mining disasters in the country’s history. Others still remained missing hours after the blast on Sunday. The blast struck a coal mine in Tabas, about 335 miles southeast of the...

The U.S. intelligence community says Iran is to blame for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s runoff presidential election, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.

Iranians are voting in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi. The race’s sole reformist candidate vowed to seek “friendly relations” with the West in an effort to energize supporters in a vote beset by apathy. Voters face a choice Friday between hard-line candidates and the little-known Masoud Pezeshkian.

The apparent crash of a helicopter carrying Iran’s president and foreign minister has sent shock waves around the region. Here’s what to know.

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, state media reported Monday morning. NBC’s Drew Petrimoulx has the latest on this developing story.

Iran has appointed a new president after former President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash over the weekend, and the Bay Area’s Iranian-American community is hopeful it could lead to change driven by the people. Bob Redell reports.

Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed president of the Islamic Republic after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in the country’s northwest.

Bay Area residents react after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others were found dead at the site of a helicopter crash. Alyssa Goard reports.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the country’s supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels and launched a major drone-and-missile attack on Israel, has died.

Demonstrators in the East Bay protested Tehran’s killing and imprisonment of its critics on Sunday.

As the search continued for Iran’s president after his helicopter went down in the mountainous northwest of the country, demonstrators around the world protested Tehran’s killing and imprisonment of its critics on Sunday. Thom Jensen reports.