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Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian insisted in an interview his country "never" plotted to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump during last year's U.S. election campaign − and never will in ...

Iran executed a record 1,000 people in 2024, almost 70 per cent of them after its new “reformist” president took office. The killings, the most in Iran in 30 years, took place across 86 prisons and ...