KATE BARTLETT, a 24-year-old influencer with 1.6 million TikTok followers, flips through a data-filled deck with pale-pink manicured fingers, a silver-and-navy Rolex gleaming on her wrist. Three ...

For 36 years, Ali Khamenei stood at the center of Iran’s political system. But beyond being Supreme Leader, he also held the powerful religious position of Marja-e-Taqlid, guiding millions of Shia ...

Ali Larijani, the leader of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, is the man regarded by experts as the most likely to step into the power vacuum left by the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after ...

Veteran Iranian politician Ali Larijani emerged as a power broker after Ayatollah Khamenei's death, establishing a temporary leadership council and accusing the US/Israel of attacks. Larijani ...

It marks one of the most dramatic turning points in the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution — and raises questions over who will take control of one of the Middle East’s most powerful and ...

The most powerful man in Iran was killed on Saturday in US and Israeli air strikes on Tehran and his death leaves a power vaccum in the country. But how did Ali Khamenei rise to power and what is his ...

Security chief Larijani was a close loyalist to Khamenei Pursues pragmatic ties with establishment's many factions Former nuclear negotiator, media chief, parliament speaker Security veteran made ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled Iran for decades, fuelled by paranoia, absolute power and a belief in his own divine destiny. He was the country's supreme leader, and he led with supreme self-confidence.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who oversaw decades of repressive rule and resistance to the United States, was killed after the U.S. and Israel attacked the Islamist regime, according ...