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Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian's current stay in New York for the UN General Assembly will be the shortest of any of his predecessors, lasting just three days.

The circus is back in town. A new Iranian president arrives at the United Nations as a smiling mask to an undeterred adversary of the United States and too many credulous media and policy elites in this country cheer on the pageant. This needs to stop.

Iran is signaling its desire to resume nuclear negotiations with the West, as indicated by the Foreign Minister on Monday, as the country’s President arrived in the US for the UN General Assembly.

A Hezbollah rocket commander was assassinated in an air attack on the Iran-backed group's stronghold in south Beirut on Tuesday, the Israeli military said, in another apparent heavy blow to its senior leadership.

Iran's Quds Force commander told Iraqi political leaders last week to ease criticism of the prime minister who has been embroiled in a row over spying allegations, sources said, seeking to steady a regional ally as conflict in the Middle East flares.

Swedish authorities said on Tuesday that Iran hacked a messaging service last year, sending thousands of messages urging Swedes to retaliate against Quran burners.

Ahead of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's address at the UN on Tuesday, calls for the release of dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi have intensified, driven by growing pressure from his family, legal team, and human rights organizations.

Masoud Pezeshkian is set to become the seventh Iranian president to address the UN General Assembly. But how did his predecessors navigate their visits to New York, and what were their key moments on the world stage?

An audio file obtained by Iran International reveals that Masoud Pezeshkian, president of the Islamic Republic, told American media representatives in New York on Monday that Iran is ready to disarm if Israel does the same.

A prominent Iranian "reformist" journalist has warned that the Pezeshkian administration is doomed to fail due to negative coverage from state TV, Iran’s hardline media, and foreign-based Persian outlets.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed a former top official and economic kingpin in charge of the Ayatollah's sprawling economic interests and Iran's COVID-19 response as a formal advisor.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian accused Israel of seeking to stoke an all-out war in remarks on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Monday, hours after Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah killed more than 35 people in Lebanon.

Forty-seven female political prisoners in Iran's notorious Evin Prison plan a day-long hunger strike to coincide with President Masoud Pezeshkian's debut address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, sources familiar with the situation told Iran International.

In a Monday editorial, the hardline Kayhan newspaper, closely aligned with Iran's conservative establishment, warned President Masoud Pezeshkian against meeting with American officials during the UN General Assembly.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's call for accession to the international money laundering watchdog FATF conventions during his first press conference has ignited a fresh wave of opposition among Islamic Republic’s loyalists.

Israeli air strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon killed 492 people on Monday, the Lebanese health ministry said, in one of the deadliest days in the war weary Mediterranean nation's history.

Iran is "lying in wait today, and will definitely respond," said Mohsen Rezaei, a member of Iran's Expediency Council and former IRGC chief-commander, on the delay in Tehran's response to the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.

Ireland's president has accused the Israeli embassy of leaking a letter in which he offered "best wishes" to Iran's new president after Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash.

President Masoud Pezeshkian infuriated supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iran's former premier and one of the leaders of the 2009 Green Movement, who accuse him of disrespecting Mousavi.

On Saturday, Iranians commemorated the second anniversary of lives lost during one of Tehran's most brutal crackdowns on 2022 anti-state protests, when security forces killed over 50 protesters in a single day.

Iran has been ranked the world's seventh most unaffordable country relative to household income amid the country's worst economic crisis since the founding of the Islamic Republic.