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Pilgrims gather at the shrine of Imam Reza in the city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, on October 1, 2023. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
March 27, 2026, 4:44 pm
187 years after deadly Iran pogrom, Mashhad crypto-Jews are focus of Jerusalem exhibit
Now at Israel’s National Library, display shows how the Jewish community of Iranian city outwardly acted as Muslims for over a century after a massacre on March 26, 1839
By Zev Stub
Protesters march along a street during a demonstration to support mass protests in Iran against the regime there, in Paris on January 11, 2026. (Kiran RIDLEY / AFP)
January 12, 2026, 10:44 am
Trump: US military ‘looking at very strong options’ on Iran, Tehran ‘wants to negotiate’
Reza Pahlavi calls agencies behind internet shutdown ‘legitimate targets,’ as Tehran residents get threatening texts from police, IRGC; activists put death toll at 544; truck rams LA protesters
By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and AP
Iranian protesters demonstrate in Tehran, Iran on January 10, 2026 (© Social Media via ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters)
January 11, 2026, 8:35 am
Death toll in Iran protest crackdown said to pass 115; Trump reportedly considering strike
Staff at hospitals overwhelmed: ‘Bodies stacked in prayer rooms’; US president given military options; internet cut for over 60 hours; foreigner detained, accused of spying for Israel
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is seen during an interview in Jerusalem, August 20, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
December 22, 2025, 7:27 pm
Huckabee: Iran ‘didn’t get the full message’ when US bombed its nuclear sites
US ambassador addresses reports the Islamic Republic is rebuilding its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, worrying Jerusalem; Tehran says missiles are nonnegotiable
By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff
Flag-draped coffins of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions who were killed in a helicopter crash are carried during their funeral ceremony in the city of Mashhad, Iran, May 23, 2024.(Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
May 23, 2024, 5:33 pm
Tens of thousands in attendance as Raisi is buried in Iran’s Imam Reza shrine
Services fail to draw same crowds as those seen at funeral for Soleimani in 2020, in possible sign of country’s feelings; Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis meet on sidelines
By Agencies and ToI Staff
People participate in a funeral procession alongside a truck carrying the coffins of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and his seven aides in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province, on May 21, 2024. (Ata Dadashi / Fars News Agency / AFP)
May 21, 2024, 2:50 pm
Iran begins days of mourning for president and others killed in helicopter crash
Unclear if Ebrahim Raisi’s processions will draw the millions who have attended previous such high-profile events; prosecutors warn against any celebration of hardliner’s demise
By Jon Gambrell
Iranian women attend a pro-hijab rally in Tehran on July 12, 2023. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
September 4, 2023, 5:08 pm
Iran shuts down indoor water park, citing headscarf mandate violations
Massive complex closed by authorities for ‘ignoring chastity and hjiab’ rules, according to local media
By AFP
Inspectors for the Israel Antiquities Authority Theft Prevention Unit with three ossuaries recovered from a burial cave in northern Israel that was nearly destroyed by construction. (courtesy Yoli Schwartz/IAA)
May 23, 2023, 2:58 pm
Family building a house in northern Israel destroys 1,800-year-old burial cave
Inspectors raid construction site where bulldozers flattened cave, find ossuaries; owner to be indicted for failing to report antiquity discovery
By Melanie Lidman
Muslim worshipers at the shrine of Imam Reza in the city of Mashhad, Iran, September 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
April 6, 2022, 5:29 am
Stabbing attack at holy shrine in Iran kills 1 cleric, injures 2
Motive for foreign national’s assault remains unclear after the incident during Ramadan in the city of Mashhad
By AP
Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi pays his respect to the body of slain scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh among his family, in Tehran, Iran, November 28, 2020. (Mizan News Agency via AP)
November 29, 2020, 12:17 pm
Body of assassinated Iran nuclear chief taken to Muslim shrine ahead of burial
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s remains will be taken to 2 more holy sites ahead of Monday funeral; parliament in Tehran holds closed session to ‘investigate the assassination’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Esther Amini's parents Hana Levi, 14, and Fatulla Aminoff, 34, as newlyweds.(Courtesy)
July 12, 2020, 4:02 pm
Memoir unveils double lives of Jews living incognito in fanatical Islamic Iran
After leaving Mashhad for a safe harbor in NY, Esther Amini’s parents still lived in fear of a pogrom — and expected their daughter to marry as a teen
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others who were killed in Iraq by a US drone strike are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during a funeral procession in the city of Mashhad, Iran, January 5, 2020. (Mohammad Hossein Thaghi/Tasnim News Agency via AP)
January 5, 2020, 6:34 pm
Iran cancels Soleimani ceremony in Tehran after massive turnout in second city
Mourners flood Mashhad and elsewhere as general’s casket makes its way to capital, with Guards hailing ‘million-man presence of the revolutionary people’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Firefighters extinguish the remains of a fire in at a forest in the city of Beit Shemesh, August 26, 2019. (Flash90)
August 26, 2019, 8:01 pm
Homes briefly evacuated in Beit Shemesh amid rash of brush fires
Emergency services gain control of blaze before damage to property; more fires in north as summer heat takes its toll
By Stuart Winer
Imam Reza Shiite shrine in the Iranian city of Mashhad. (CC BY-SA IA Iahsan, Wikimedia)
August 20, 2018, 4:53 pm
Iranian journalist jailed for 10 years for ‘insulting’ imam on Twitter
Mir Mohammad-Hossein Mir-Esmaili convicted for saying 9th-century Muslim leader would have allowed concerts, after city of Mashhad bans them
By AFP
A group of protesters chant slogans at the old grand bazaar in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 25, 2018. Protesters in the Iranian capital swarmed its historic Grand Bazaar on Monday, news agencies reported, and forced shopkeepers to close their stalls in apparent anger over the Islamic Republic's troubled economy, months after similar demonstrations rocked the country. (Iranian Labor News Agency via AP)
August 4, 2018, 12:47 pm
Iranian protesters blame their government, not US, for failing economy
Religious school attacked near Tehran as opponents slam regime; rial has slipped to record lows ahead of sanctions restarting Monday after Washington pulled out of nuke deal
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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