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An influential cleric said Ahmadinejad, a close ally to Hugo Chávez, should have left religion out of his letter to the Venezuelan vice president.

While Russia's watershed invasion of Ukraine has up-ended long-established European foreign and security policy paradigms, it also poses significant security challenges for countries throughout Eurasia and beyond. As Ali Fathollah-Nejad writes, Iran, for one, is by no means immune to the geopolitical changes underway

Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, which triggered Europe’s first major conflict since the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, marks a watershed in the continent’s post-Cold War history. The conflict poses significant security challenges for countries throughout Eurasia and beyond, and Iran is by no means immune to the geopolitical changes underway.

Fissures within Iran’s regime point to Khamenei’s inability to resolve the incurable crises that have engulfed the regime.

Middle East News: TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cast his ballot in Tehran Friday for the presidential election, officially opening the polls, an .

US, Iran expected to begin indirect nuclear talks Share Updated: 12:05 PM EDT Apr 6, 2021 By GEIR MOULSON and ALEX SCHULLER Associated Press US, Iran expected to begin indirect nuclear talks Share Updated: 12:05 PM EDT Apr 6, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript We certainly will not entertain unilateral gestures or concessions to get Iran to induce, um, Iran to a better place. Our goal at these talks in Vienna again is to set the stage for that mutual return ...