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The General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces has officially denied Turkey's claim that its Akinci drone located the crash site of the helicopter carrying the late President Ebrahim Raisi.

Iran’s president killed in a helicopter crash Sunday was given a a grand send-off on Wednesday in Tehran with prayers led by the supreme leader.

Members of Canadian parliament heard testimony Tuesday from Iranian human rights advocates, dissidents, victims and an exiled artist on the brutality of the Islamic Republic, and called on Ottawa to take more action.

Beijing will continue to deepen its relations with Tehran and safeguard mutual interests, after a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister, Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.

The untimely death of the Islamic Republic’s president and its foreign minister in a mysterious helicopter crash on May 19 has come at the worst time for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei but the best time for Iranian dissidents inside and outside the country.

An Israeli security expert, who served for 15 years as an intelligence officer in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), told Iran International that the war between Israel and Hamas is actually a war between Iran and Western values.

Iran’s Secretary of the Association of Exporters of Technical and Engineering Services has claimed the Iraqi government has failed to settle over a billion dollars in dues owed to Iranian contractors.

A new series will explore the life of Iran's last monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, in the upcoming series The Last Shah, Variety has learned.

Under the shadows of the helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and other high-ranking officials, Iran’s Cyber Police of have intensified their surveillance and repression.

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, a leading candidate to succeed the Supreme Leader of Iran, was killed in a helicopter crash, the details of which remain unclear.

A tale of two narratives emerged on social media, after Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and several other senior officials died Sunday in a helicopter crash.

Members of the Assembly of Experts, a body tasked with choosing the Islamic Republic's next supreme leader elected senior cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani as the Assembly's chairman on Tuesday.

A team of search and rescue motorcyclists from the operation to find Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, have revealed that the wreckage of the helicopter was "completely exploded and everything was burned."

Ebrahim Raisi was reportedly stripped of his potential successor status to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, months before his sudden death in a helicopter crash Sunday.

Politician and cleric Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani has been elected as head of the Assembly of Experts, deepening the control of hard-line conservative rule in Iran.

The Biden administration’s message of sympathy for the death of Ebrahim Raisi sparked harsh criticism from US lawmakers and some Iranian-American activists who called the gesture a “slap” on the face of the late-president’s victims.

Following the helicopter crash that killed Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian groups have called for accountability for his crimes.

Amid controversial international messages of condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, former US Vice President Mike Pence says “the world is a safer place” without him.

Following the news of President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian's deaths, messages of condolence quickly poured in from some predictable corner of the world.

As Iran watchers and analysts rush to predict the next chapter of the Islamic Republic’s rule – many takes are emerging following the deadly helicopter crash that took the life of the country’s President.

Iranians flooded social media platforms with jokes and speculations about the circumstances and the cause of the air-crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi, many pointing fingers at Mojtaba Khamenei, the Supreme Leader’s son.