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Amir Vahdat

Women look at the window of a gold shop at a gold market in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Iran, November 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
December 4, 2025, 9:52 am
As sanctions tighten, Iranians turn to gold as hedge against falling currency
Fearing disappearing savings as inflation skyrockets, many are stockpiling precious metals and crypto: ‘I need to be able to carry my assets with me if I have to leave’
By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell
People withdraw money from an ATM in the Iranian capital Tehran on September 28, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
December 3, 2025, 6:30 pm
Iran’s currency falls to a new low as nuclear sanctions squeeze its ailing economy
Record low puts pressure on food prices, raising cost of meat and rice, making daily life more challenging for the Iranian public
By Amir Vahdat
Iranian elections headquarters staff work to register candidates for the June 28 presidential elections at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 30, 2024, 2:54 pm
Iran opens registration for presidential elections following Raisi’s death
Possible frontrunners include acting incumbent Mohammad Mokhber and former presidents Ahmadinejad and Khatami, though unclear if latter are eligible to run
By Jon Gambrell and Amir Vahdat
File: Vessels identified as the Virgo, left, and the Suez Rajan, by the advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran, are seen in the South China Sea on February 13, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
August 28, 2023, 6:01 pm
Iran summons Swiss envoy over US seizure of its oil now docked in Texas
Tehran objects to takeover of Suez Rajan as ‘completely unproductive’ as countries try to work toward exchange of American prisoners for release of frozen Iranian assets
By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell
This November 4, 2020, satellite photo by Maxar Technologies shows Iran's Fordo nuclear site. (Maxar Technologies via AP)
May 30, 2023, 3:48 pm
Iranian state media: IAEA closed two lines of inquiry on nuclear program
But the UN atomic energy agency is yet to report on the probes, into highly enriched uranium at Fordo site and man-made uranium at Marivan
By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell
Enrique Mora, a leading European Union diplomat, left, shakes hands with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani in Tehran, Iran, March 27, 2022. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)
March 27, 2022, 7:42 pm
EU envoy in Tehran, as Iran says nuclear deal ‘within reach’
Adviser to Supreme Leader Khamenei tells Doha Forum removal of IRGC from US terror list ‘important to Iranian people,’ no compromise will be made on issue
By LUJAIN JO and Amir Vahdat
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a televised New Year speech, in Tehran, Iran, on March 21, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
March 21, 2022, 10:32 pm
Khamenei signals support for ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna
In rare public remarks on negotiations, Iranian supreme leader stresses importance of economic self-suffiency, adding: ‘I do not say that you should not seek to lift the sanctions’
By Amir Vahdat
A satellite image from September 15, 2017, of the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran. (Google Earth)
March 14, 2022, 10:25 pm
Iran claims to thwart Israeli sabotage plot at nuclear facility, arrests ‘network’
Revolutionary Guard claims to foil plot by ‘Zionist Regime’ at Fordo enrichment facility, where Tehran has refused access to surveillance camera footage by IAEA
By Amir Vahdat
An honor guard member is covered by the flag of Saudi Arabia, in Washington, on March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
March 13, 2022, 4:08 pm
Iran suspends talks with Saudi Arabia after mass execution — report
Halt comes after Riyadh put 81 people to death over various crimes, in largest known public killing in kingdom’s modern history, with over three dozen said to be Shiites
By Amir Vahdat
In this image taken from video, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province Wednesday, April 22, 2020.(IRIB via AP)
March 8, 2022, 10:56 am
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches 2nd satellite, state media reports
IRNA says Noor-2 spacecraft blasted off from Shahroud Desert and reached a low Earth orbit, but doesn’t say when
By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani sits in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on June 12, 2021. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
March 7, 2022, 11:48 am
Iran adjusting stance after Russia’s new demands at nuclear talks
Supreme National Security Council says negotiators in Vienna will seek ‘creative ways’ to proceed as Moscow links efforts to save 2015 pact to US sanctions over Ukraine invasion
By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell
Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami, right, and International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Mariano Grossi shake hands at the start of their meeting in Tehran on March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 5, 2022, 10:15 am
UN nuclear watchdog head meets with Iranian officials in Tehran as talks near end
IAEA’s Grossi says visit to ‘address outstanding questions,’ without further details; may include weapons program probe; Iran official: ‘God willing there will be an understanding’
By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell
A woman uses a smartphone while standing on a street in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 23, 2019. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)
January 26, 2022, 4:17 pm
Iran arrests 17 people over ‘panic spreading’ prank videos
Tehran police chief says clips ‘play with people’s nerves, security and peace’; prankster defends actions, says he ‘only wanted to make people happy and gain more followers’
By Amir Vahdat
The alleged Karaj centrifuge parts plant near Karaj, Iran, seen in a photo posted online by Google user Edward Majnoonian, in May 2019. (Screenshot/Google Maps)
December 15, 2021, 2:53 pm
Iran to return UN cameras to nuclear centrifuge site, but keep footage – state media
Karaj was the target of a sabotage attack in June that Iran blames on Israel
By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell
Mock US and Israeli flags are set on fire by demonstrators in a rally in front of the former US Embassy commemorating the anniversary of its 1979 seizure in Tehran, Iran, November 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 4, 2021, 2:01 pm
American, Israeli flags burned as Iran marks 1979 takeover of US Embassy
Anniversary events staged in hundreds of cities across the country; head of powerful Islamic Republican Guards Corps vows defense of homeland
By Amir Vahdat
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