Bobby Sands Street in downtown Tehran wasn’t much to look at but it was still important for Tadhg Hickey to see it during his recent visit to Iran, the comedian says.

Or a low-key lawmaker and heart surgeon who's signaled he favors a less hostile foreign policy and easing some of Iran's social restrictions. Those are the two choices facing Iran's voters in an ...

The first to die was the IRA leader in the Maze, Bobby Sands. In all, 10 prisoners died before the strike was called off on 3 October 1981. The British government made no public concessions to the ...

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Once seen as a ...

Regime-approved candidates in Iran are running to be the country's next president on Friday in a vote that follows the helicopter-crash death of hardliner Ebrahim Raisi last month. Iran's Supreme ...

A relatively moderate member of the Iranian parliament, Masoud Pezeshkian, has been declared the next president of Iran after beating his hardline conservative rival by a decisive margin in Friday ...

Pezeshkian has called for greater outreach to the outside world as a means of improving Iran’s economy, while Jalili is a former nuclear negotiator with strong anti-Western views. The two will ...

(Vahid Salemi/AP) A little-known reformist and cardiac surgeon, Masoud Pezeshkian, defeated his ultraconservative rival to become the next president of Iran, campaigning on more social freedoms ...

An Iranian woman casts her vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Tehran on Friday. (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) After just 40 percent of eligible voters cast ballots last week ...

Iran will hold a runoff presidential election Friday after no candidate secured an outright win in an initial vote. Voters in the Islamic Republic will cast their ballots on July 5 to decide ...

Wave Trauma Centre offers care and support for anyone bereaved, injured or traumatised through the civil unrest in Northern Ireland, irrespective of religious, cultural or political belief. Cruse ...

1550: Charles IX is born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. 1542: Conquistador Juan Rodruguez Cabrillo sets sail from the Mexican port of Navidad to explore the west coast of North America on behalf of ...