Pezeshkian

Senior IRGC Navy officer dies in car crash as insurgencies escalate across western Iran

This comes after four members of Iran's IRGC were killed, and several others were wounded in what the IRGC described as "terrorist" shootings in western Iran on the same day as the crash.

|ByMAARIV, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A man looks through a screen during a state funeral service in Enqelab Square, for military commanders and others killed in the recent war with Israel on June 28, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. Israel and and Iran traded daily aerial attacks over a 12-day period until a ceasefire took effect on June 24.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks with Fox News Channel's Martha MacCallum during an interview on September 25, 2025 in New York City.

Iran will not 'surrender,' Pezeshkian says after Trump claims Iran-US dialogue progress

This comes as a response to US President Donald Trump, who said on Monday he had paused a planned attack against Iran after Tehran sent a peace proposal to Washington.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
Iranian players gesture from the bench during the AFC Women’s Asian Cup Group A match between South Korea and Iran at Robina Stadium on the Gold Coast, Australia, March 2, 2026.

Iranian women's soccer players 'were misled,' in Australia, Pezeshkian says in video address

Australia granted humanitarian visas to six players and one support staff member from the Iranian squad in early March after they sought asylum over fears of possible persecution upon returning home.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
(L to R) Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, ran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

IRGC commander, Iranian FM Araghchi clash over negotiating team before US-Iran talks - report

The sources shared that IRGC Commander-in-Chief Ahmad Vahidi is attempting to curb the authority of Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN, REUTERS

Iran's Pezeshkian rejects US pressure, praises Russia, China

Pezeshkian, a relative moderate who beat a hardline rival in elections, also reiterated that Iran does not seek nuclear weapons.

JULY 13, 2024ByREUTERS
IRAN’S NEW president, Masoud Pezeshkian, speaks during a gathering with supporters at the shrine of the late Iranian leader Khomeini, in Tehran, last Saturday.

Iran’s new president vows to back Hezbollah and other terror groups

From Iran’s perspective these are not terror groups but “resistance.”

JULY 10, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Masoud Pezeshkian (right) and Saeed Jalili ​attend an election debate at a television studio in Tehran, on Monday.

Reformists’ propaganda mafia cannot silence the voice of the Iranian people - opinion

No one dares to stand up to the dictator Ali Khamenei, and reform within the authoritarian structure and the inner circle of the Islamic Jurist is impossible.

JULY 10, 2024ByERFAN FARD
IRAN’S NEW president, Masoud Pezeshkian, speaks during a gathering with supporters at the shrine of the late Iranian leader Khomeini, in Tehran, last Saturday.