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TEHRAN: As anti-government protests spill into a third week, Iranian lawmakers during a parliament session on Sunday pledged allegiance to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei while Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said a “conspiracy” by the country’s enemies had “failed”. “At a time when the Islamic republic was overcoming economic problems to become more active in the region and in the …

UNITED NATIONS: Iran’s new ultraconservative president on Tuesday voiced support for renewed nuclear negotiations in his international debut even as he hailed what he termed the decline of US hegemony. President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline cleric who succeeded a government that sought better relations with the West, called on the United States to fulfill its promises to end sanctions under …