Iran's Presidency/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERSIranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a meeting with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on the Azerbaijan-Iran border, May 19, 2024. Indirect talks between US President Joe Biden's administration and Tehran to revive the pact have stalled. The resulting months of nationwide protests presented one of the gravest challenges to Iran's clerical rulers since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Raisi said that any Israeli retaliation against Iranian territory could result in there being nothing left of the "Zionist regime". Raisi was born in 1960 to a religious family in Iran's holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Mashhad.

Source: bd News24 May 19, 2024 19:41 UTC