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    Trump warns Iran’s supreme leader should be ‘very worried’
  • Narges Mohammadi sits in her apartment in Tehran on January 16, 2025. She received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating women's rights and freedom and is currently on leave from prison. (Photo by Nooshin Jafari / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by NOOSHIN JAFARI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Exclusive: Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi on hunger strike in detention in Iran, foundation says
  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in southern Tehran, Iran, on January 31, 2026.
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    Iran conditionally agrees to nuclear talks with US, first since Trump’s military strikes last summer
  • Iranians visit graves in the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran on January 29, 2026.
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    Grieving Iranians cowed into silence beside the graves of protesters
  • Ambulances wait in line at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Monday.
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    Gaza-Egypt border reopens nearly two years after Israel closed it, official says
  • An armed member of Iran's police special forces looks on as he holds a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a pro-Government rally in downtown Tehran, Iran, on January 12, 2026. The rally takes place in Tehran against the recent anti-government unrest, opposition to the U.S. and Israel in Iran, and in support of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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    Trump faces a weakened Iran but that doesn’t make his choices any easier
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday.
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    Iran is open to US talks but won’t be dictated to and won’t negotiate on missiles, foreign minister says
  • A rally to protest the killingof thousands of demonstrators in Iran since late December was held at the Trocadero in Paris on January 18.
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    Iran warns of ‘hazardous consequences’ after EU designates Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization
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  • Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki leaves after casting his ballot in the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Baghdad on November 11, 2025.
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    Trump warns against Nouri al-Maliki’s return as prime minister of Iraq
  • Iranian men speak with each other while standing under the country flags outside the Grand Bazaar in southern Tehran, Iran, on January 27, 2026.
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    Tehran wary of American bombs as memories of bloody crackdown still sting
  • Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village, West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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    ‘We are reliving the Nakba’: A Palestinian community says it’s being erased as Israeli settler violence intensifies
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  • Palestinian Yussef al-Zawarah, 42, and his wife Asma, 37, hold each other as they collect the body of their son Mohammed, after he was killed by Israeli fire along with his cousin in Gaza City.
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    Boys collecting firewood in Gaza killed by Israeli fire
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  • Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran's Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities, and included economic slogans, to political and anti-government ones. (Photo by MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
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    The night Iran went dark: Witness accounts and video reveal violence inflicted during Iran’s internet blackout
  • Saudi Arabia says it has $2.5 trillion in mineral reserves. That could make it a key player in the race for rare earths
  • 180 skyscrapers for Gaza: Trump’s son-in-law Kushner unveils ‘masterplan’ for enclave’s reconstruction
  • Why the fate of ISIS prisoners in Syria is back on the radar
  • Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks during a meeting in Tehran on Saturday.
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    Iran’s supreme leader acknowledges thousands were killed in protests
  • Detained Iranian protester in good physical health after execution fears, family and rights group say
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  • Kurdish forces retreat as government troops advance across northern Syria
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