Nasser Karimi, Author at Greenfield Recorder

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about Iran, Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Stampede kills 56 at funeral for Iranian general

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, Amir Vahdat Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressJanuary 7, 2020

TEHRAN, Iran — A stampede broke out Tuesday at the funeral for a top Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike, and at least 56 people were killed and more than 200 were injured as thousands thronged the procession, Iranian news reports said.As the…

FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2018, file photo, members of the military wait outside facilities where President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are visiting at Al Assad Air Base, Iraq. Iran said Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, it has launched "tens" of surface-to-surface missiles at Iraq's Ain Assad air base housing U.S. troops over America’s killing of a top Iranian general. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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Iran strikes back at US with missile attack on bases in Iraq

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, Amir Vahdat Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressJanuary 7, 2020

Schoolgirls hold national flags along with anti-U.S. placards in the annual rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. Reviving decades-old cries of "Death to America," Iran on Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the 1979 student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed as tensions remain high over the country's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Iran spins more centrifuges on US Embassy crisis anniversary

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressNovember 4, 2019

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday.

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Iranian president: First lift sanctions, then let’s talk

by Nasser Karimi Associated PressAugust 27, 2019

FILE - In this Sunday, July 21, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump walks on the tarmac to board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J. Iran said Monday that it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country's nuclear and military sites, and some of them have already been sentenced to death. Trump tweeted that the claim had "zero truth," calling Iran a "total mess."(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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Iran says it arrested 17 Iranians allegedly recruited by CIA

by Aya Batrawy Associated Press, and Nasser Karimi Associated PressJuly 22, 2019

In this Oct. 24, 2018, photo released by the U.S. Air Force, members of the 7th Reconnaissance Squadron prepare to launch an RQ-4 Global Hawk at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy. Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. RQ-4 Global Hawk on Thursday, June 20, 2019, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over its collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, American and Iranian officials said, though they disputed the circumstances of the incident. (Staff Sgt. Ramon A. Adelan/U.S. Air Force via AP)

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Iran shoots down US surveillance drone, heightening tensions

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressJune 20, 2019

FILE - This Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, shows a part of Arak heavy water nuclear facilities, near the central city of Arak, 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days, the spokesman for the country's atomic agency said Monday June 17, 2019, while also warning that Iran has the need for uranium enriched up to 20%, just a step away from weapons-grade levels. (Mehdi Marizad/Fars News Agency via AP, File)

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Tensions rise as Iran speeds enrichment, US sends troops

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressJune 17, 2019

FILE - This Feb. 14, 2012, file photo shows the bridge of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). The U.S. is dispatching the USS Abraham Lincoln and other military resources to the Middle East following “clear indications” that Iran and its proxy forces were preparing to possibly attack U.S. forces in the region, according to a defense official on May 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

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Report: Iran prepares to withdraw from parts of nuclear deal

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressMay 7, 2019

In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, photo, a girl walks past a poster of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, at a mosque where he made speeches, in northern Tehran, Iran. The memory of Khomeini, who died in 1989 at the age of 86, looms large over Tehran today. His image is on bank notes and in textbooks in Iran, often as an embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country’s shah and forever changed the nation. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Ayatollah Khomeini’s family mostly absent from Iran politics

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressFebruary 1, 2019

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, centre, flanked by Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, pose for photographs in Tehran, Iran, ahead of their summit to discuss Syria, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. The three leaders began a meeting to discuss the war in Syria.(Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

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High-stakes diplomacy as battle for Syria’s Idlib looms

by Jon Gambrell Associated Press, and Nasser Karimi Associated PressSeptember 7, 2018