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Saeed Jalili

A woman holds a picture of the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a memorial for school children who were killed during a strike on a school in southern town of Minab, in downtown Tehran, Iran, April 7, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)
April 22, 2026, 6:51 am
After surviving US-Israeli strikes, Iran regime may be divided over terms for ending war
While Islamic Republic’s leaders have united around a hard line, negotiations with US could test panel that now seems to be running Iran by exposing differences among its members
By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY and Lee Keath
This combination of pictures created on June 29, 2024 shows (L) Iranian presidential candidate and ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as he attends his election campaign rally at Sharif University in Tehran, June 22, 2024, and (R) lawmaker and former health minister Massoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate for Iranian president, at a campaign rally at Afrasiabi Stadium in Tehran, June 23, 2024. (Atta Kenare / AFP)
June 29, 2024, 2:57 pm
Hardliner, moderate to face off in 2nd-ever Iranian runoff, after record low turnout
Neither presidential candidate secures majority, with 40% voter turnout amid opposition boycott; reformist Pezeshkian wants ‘friendly relations with all countries except Israel’
By Ramin Khanizadeh and Payam DOOST MOHAMADI
Women get their ballot paper during the Iranian presidential election in a polling station at the shrine of Saint Saleh in northern Tehran, June 28, 2024. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
June 29, 2024, 9:17 am
With voter turnout low, Iran presidential election results too close to call
Low-key moderate Massoud Pezeshkian, former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili are neck-and-neck in vote count in snap vote to replace late president Raisi after helicopter crash
By AP
This combination created on June 18, 2024 of handout pictures provided by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) shows Presidential candidates (clockwise) Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Alireza Zakani, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Masoud Pezeshkian, Saeed Jalili, and Amirhossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi during a debate at the Iran State television studio in Tehran on June 17, 2024. (MORTEZA FAKHRINEJAD / IRIB / AFP)
June 18, 2024, 8:35 pm
Iran’s six presidential candidates debate economic issues as elections near
With Islamic Republic dealing with financial difficulties, some candidates wish to continue path of late president Raisi, others seek reform
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iranians hold a dummy representing US President Donald Trump during a rally marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution on February 10, 2017, in the capital Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
April 1, 2017, 4:54 pm
Trump’s stance on Iran emboldens nation’s hardliners
Opponents of Rouhani say US president’s rhetoric on nuclear deal shows need for more muscular approach
By Nasser Karimi
Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz addresses the seventh Annual INSS conference in Tel Aviv, Wednesday, January 29, 2014 (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)
September 17, 2014, 4:54 pm
Israeli minister advocates ‘no deal’ with Iran
No difference between ‘moderate’ Rouhani and hardliner Ahmadinejad in nuclear negotiations, says Yuval Steinitz
By Elhanan Miller
Iranian President Hasan Rouhani (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi/File)
June 26, 2013, 10:49 am
New Iranian president sees US as only way forward in nuke talks
Hasan Rouhani, former lead nuclear negotiator for the Islamic Republic, expected to push for direct talks with Washington
By Brian Murphy
Hasan Rouhani, center, poses before a large portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, the day after being elected Iran's president, on June 15, 2013 (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
June 15, 2013, 7:14 pm
Hasan Rowhani wins Iranian election with 50.7% of votes
Relatively moderate candidate says win is ‘victory of intelligence, moderation and progress over extremism’; Khamenei, Ahmadinejad send their congratulations
By AP and ToI Staff
Iranian presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, casts his ballot during presidential elections at a polling station in downtown Tehran on Friday (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)
June 15, 2013, 3:30 pm
Relative moderate Rowhani hovers at 51% in Iran election
With two-thirds of votes counted, real possibility that candidate least liked by regime may win without runoff, Khamenei hails high turnout as a vote of confidence in democracy
By AP and ToI Staff
Head-to-toe veiled Iranian women attend a polling station to vote for the presidential and municipal councils elections in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
June 15, 2013, 11:34 am
Inside Iran’s presidential election and beyond
Does the election matter? Will its outcome affect Iran’s nuclear program?
By AP
Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran (photo: Wiki Commons)
June 15, 2013, 5:17 am
Election is a victory in itself, says Khamenei
As reformist candidate Rowhani surges to a wide lead with over 8 million votes, Iran’s supreme leader says a vote for any candidate is a vote of confidence for the country’s democracy
By AP and ToI Staff
Iranian presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, casts his ballot during presidential elections at a polling station in downtown Tehran on Friday (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)
June 14, 2013, 8:54 pm
Poll puts relative moderate ahead in Iran’s presidential elections
Vote count underway early Saturday; Hasan Rowhani declares he’s running ‘to boot out extremists’; for supreme leader Khamenei to let Rowhani win would be ‘a mortal blow,’ says Israeli analyst
By ToI Staff, AP and JTA
Illustrative photo of two Iranian women casting their ballots during the presidential and municipal councils elections in a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
June 14, 2013, 5:18 pm
Iran voters draw spirit in showdown atmosphere
Enthusiasm in Tehran polling stations suggest a chance of victory for reform-minded candidate Hasan Rowhani
By Brian Murphy, Nasser Karimi and JTA
Former Iranian nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani speaks with media after registering his candidacy for upcoming presidential election (photo credit: AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
June 14, 2013, 1:42 pm
All eyes on Iran
Millions of Iranians elect their next president; Israel names its best teachers; Turkish protesters push on
By Aaron Kalman
Eight presidential candidates participated in a televised debate on Friday, June 7, in Tehran (photo credit: AP/Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting/Mehdi Dehghan)
June 14, 2013, 8:42 am
A look at Iran’s presidential candidates
Voting is underway to replace two-term president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but who will come away the winner?
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