World & Nation
Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail since the 2022 attack, during which Rushdie was stabbed more than a dozen times.
July 24, 2024
Opinion
The Trump-incited mob storming of the Capitol took me back to the time I was a hostage in the American embassy in Tehran.
Jan. 10, 2021
Iran election: Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won the Islamic Republic’s runoff presidential vote, beating hard-liner Saeed Jalili.
July 6, 2024
Iran’s first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, has been appointed president of the Islamic Republic after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
May 20, 2024
Mourners began gathering for days of funerals and processions for Iran’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash Sunday.
May 21, 2024
A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a popular shrine and another blew himself up after a siege inside Iran’s parliament building in near-simultaneous attacks in Tehran on June 7, 2017.
June 7, 2017
Books
Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, ‘Knife,’ hits shelves on Tuesday, nearly two years after Hadi Matar allegedly nearly killed him in a stabbing attack.
April 15, 2024
Ahmad Khomeini, 50, son of Iran’s late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
March 18, 1995
Iran’s top cleric commemorated the 25th anniversary of the death of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Wednesday with a fiery anti-American speech that said the United States had failed in an effort to bring Iran “to its knees.”
June 4, 2014
A Greek-owned and Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier that came under attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels had a cargo of grain bound for Iran.
May 30, 2024