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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 341

Nasser Karimi

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, center, is greeted by lawmakers while leaving the parliament after his speech during the debate on his proposed ministers, at the Majlis in Tehran, August 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 22, 2024, 1:04 pm
Iran’s parliament approves all of new president’s cabinet picks, in first since 2001
Pezeshkian hails ‘consensus’ after Majlis okays 19 ministers, including several holdovers from hardline predecessor and lone woman, chosen in apparent bid to placate conservatives
By Nasser Karimi
A woman plays Hamster Combat game on a cell phone in Tehran, Iran, June 23, 2024 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
June 24, 2024, 10:24 am
Iran’s ‘Hamster’ crypto craze highlights economic malaise ahead of presidential vote
Analysts say app’s popularity a sign of desperation in face of rocketing cost of living; Ukrainian authorities also concerned about game, saying data is stored in Russia
By Jon Gambrell and Nasser Karimi
People pray over the flag-draped coffins of victims of a suicide-bomb attack during a funeral ceremony in the city of Kerman, Iran, January 5, 2024. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
January 11, 2024, 1:45 pm
Iran names alleged bombmaker behind ISIS attack, says 1 of 2 bombers is Tajik-Israeli
Intelligence ministry says explosives in bombing that killed over 90 were made by Tajik national known by alias Abdollah Tajiki; Tehran doesn’t name alleged second suicide bomber
By Nasser Karimi
A royalist tank moves into the courtyard of Tehran Radio a few minutes after pro-Shah troops occupied the area during the coup which ousted Mohammad Mosaddegh and his government on Aug. 19, 1953. (AP Photo, File)
August 25, 2023, 10:55 am
70 years later, a CIA-backed coup still roils Iran-US relations
The 1953 ouster of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh to cement the rule of the Shah still haunts the country and its Islamist rulers
By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, second right, listens to Chief of Aviation Industries of Armed Forces Gen. Afshin Khajehfard, as Defense Minister Gen. Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani, right, listens, during a ceremony unveiling a drone called the Mohajer-10, August 22, 2023. (Iranian Presidency Office, via AP)
August 22, 2023, 3:54 pm
‘Prepare your shelters’: Iran unveils armed drone, claims it could reach Israel
Tehran says Mohajer-10 drone, which appears to be modeled after US MQ-9 Reaper, can stay aloft for 24 hours
By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell
An Iranian woman walks in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 5, 2023, wihout wearing the mandatory hijab. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 10, 2023, 9:35 am
A year after Mahsa Amini protests, Tehran targets businesses not enforcing hijab
President Raisi says ‘this lack of hijab will be definitely put an end to,’ as authorities send over a million warning text messages to women seen without veil in cars
By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell
An Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel watches an American warship in the Strait of Hormuz, May 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
August 2, 2023, 2:12 pm
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard runs drill on disputed Persian Gulf islands
Islands are claimed by UAE; exercise comes as US military presence in region grows
By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell
Iraqis raise copies of the Quran, Muslims' holy book, during a protest in Tahrir Square, Thursday، July 20, 2023 in Baghdad, Iraq. The protest was in response to the burning of Quran in Sweden. (AP Photo/Adil AL-Khazali)
July 21, 2023, 2:31 pm
Muslim nations outraged following latest Quran desecration in Sweden
Iraq cuts off ties with Stockholm after Iraqi-born Christian stands on Islamic holy book outside Iraqi embassy in Swedish capital
By Jon Gambrell, ABBY SEWELL, Nasser Karimi and Munir Ahmed
A woman sits in the alfresco dining area of a cafe at the Tajrish commercial district without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf in northern Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 10, 2023, 10:05 am
‘Leave us alone’: As more women shun hijab, Iran crackdown unveils decades-old rifts
Tehran’s theocracy is escalating its response to a growing trend of openly defying mandatory headscarf rule; some say rulers may be overreaching, risking a renewed wave of protests
By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell
A visitor looks at artworks by the American artist Sol Lewitt while visiting a 19th- and 20th-century American and European minimalist and conceptual masterpieces show at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 2, 2022. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
August 11, 2022, 10:38 am
Tehran unveils Western art masterpieces hidden for decades after Islamic Revolution
Works by Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd and Sol Lewitt among dozens of items that were stored away in 1979 but have gradually resurfaced, generating thriving interest
By Nasser Karimi and MEHDI FATTAHI
Mourners wave red flags as they gather around flag-draped coffins of five members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard killed in Syria, whose remains were recently recovered, during their funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, August 4, 2022. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
August 4, 2022, 10:40 pm
Iran holds mass funeral for Revolutionary Guard officers killed in Syria years ago
‘Headless general’ Abdollah Eskandari, known for his capture and beheading by Syrian rebels in 2014, among bodies of five fighters recently recovered from Syria
By Nasser Karimi
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, greet each other as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stands at right, during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, July 19, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
July 19, 2022, 5:24 pm
Isolated by West, Putin arrives in Tehran to deepen Russia-Iran relations
Russian president expected to discuss faltering nuclear talks with Raisi, as well as sit down with visiting Turkish leader Erdogan
By Nasser Karimi and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, back to a camera, on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on June 29, 2022. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
July 19, 2022, 11:13 am
Putin heads to Iran for talks with Raisi and Erdogan, in shadow of Ukraine war
Leaders set to discuss Syria war; gathering is opportunity for Russian president to meet Turkish counterpart, in bid to unblock grain export from Ukraine following invasion
By Nasser Karimi and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
In this photo released by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, spokesman of the organization Behrouz Kamalvandi, center, briefs the media while visiting Fordo nuclear site near Qom, south of Tehran, Iran, November 9, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)
July 10, 2022, 2:38 pm
Iran says it started enriching uranium to 20% using new centrifuges
IAEA chief Grossi says Iran using a special setup that allows it to swiftly switch between enrichment levels; Tehran reportedly has 43 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity
By Nasser Karimi
Painter Hassan Naderali paints an old building in the historic neighborhood of Oudlajan, in Tehran, Iran, June 20, 2022. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
July 7, 2022, 2:36 pm
Iran’s outdoor painters aim to capture old Tehran before building boom overruns it
Ballooning population in the capital has led to massive real estate development; artists hope to document its past beauty before it disappears
By Nasser Karimi
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