Iran

Iran sent a written message via Swiss diplomats in mid-October saying that it would not seek to kill Donald Trump, a U.S. official told NBC News.

Iran’s government directed three people to “target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad,” the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged.

Iran’s supreme leader has threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies.

Iran has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons and is prepared to change its policies on using them if faced with an existential threat, an adviser to its supreme leader said Friday in the latest bellicose statement from the country amid its high-stakes tit-for-tat with Israel. 

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...

Iran says it launched a satellite into space with a rocket built by the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.

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.