A fighter jet crashed into a stadium in a city in northwest Iran, the country’s state-run news agency reported Monday. The crash killed two pilots and a civilian.The wreckage of an Iranian F-5 fighter jet remains at the crash site in Tabriz, northwestern Iran, on Monday. (Tasnim News Agency/The Associated Press)A fighter jet crashed onto…Continue Reading

Former Iranian President Bani-Sadr dies in Paris

Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into exile in France, died on Saturday aged 88. He died at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris following a long illness, his wife and children said on Bani-Sadr’s official website. Bani-Sadr had emerged from obscurity to become Iran’s first president in…Continue Reading