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Islamic State Group Claim Iran Suicide Bombings

par This Is Beirut, 04/01 19:09 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility on Thursday, for the twin bombings that resulted in the death of at least 84 individuals during a memorial ceremony in Iran for the late Revolutionary Guards general Qasem Soleimani. The Islamic State jihadist group said Thursday that it carried out twin bombings which killed at least 84 ...

Iran Lays Victims of IS Twin Blasts to Rest

par This Is Beirut, 05/01 22:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi participated in the funerals of 89 individuals who lost their lives in twin blasts that occurred on Wednesday in the southern city of Kerman and were claimed by the Islamic State group. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi joined on Friday mourners in the southern city of Kerman for the funerals of 89 people killed in ...

Iranian President Raisi in Turkey on Wednesday to Meet Erdogan

par This Is Beirut, 23/01 15:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will travel to Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday, January 23, to meet his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Initially scheduled for November, this meeting has been postponed several times. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will pay an official one-day visit to Turkey on Wednesday for talks focused on the regional ...

Middle East Tense After Israel Promises Response to Iran

par This Is Beirut, 16/04 23:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Tensions were high in the Middle East on Tuesday due to traded threats by Israel and its arch-foe Iran following Iran's attack on Israel days earlier. World leaders intensified diplomatic activity, while the EU began devising sanctions on the Islamic Republic in attempts to decrease hostilities in the region. Israel and Iran traded threats on ...

Several Senior Iranian Officials Involved in Helicopter Crash

par This Is Beirut, 19/05 16:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in "an accident" in poor weather conditions on Sunday, state media reported, with a search underway and no news yet on his condition. "An accident happened to the helicopter carrying the president" in the Jofa region of the western province of East Azerbaijan, state television ...

Is Iran's Government Preparing for the Post-Raïssi Era?

par This Is Beirut, 19/05 19:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Ali Khamenei Ebrahim Raisi Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Iran Iran Helicopter Crash

Is Tehran preparing for the possibility of the deaths of its President and Foreign Minister, following a helicopter crash on Sunday? Rescue operations continue in search of the site where Iranian President Ebrahim Raissi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian's helicopter "crashed" on Sunday. However, Tehran already seems to be preparing ...

Raisi Still Missing, Conflicting Reports on Search Operations

par This Is Beirut, 19/05 21:47 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Ebrahim Raisi Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Iran Iran Helicopter Crash

Iran launched a massive search and rescue operation in a fog-shrouded mountainous area after President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter disappeared on Sunday in what state media described as an "accident". Contradictory information was circulating about the intense search for the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi, which was continuing in ...

Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's Ultraconservative President

par This Is Beirut, 20/05 07:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Ebrahim Raisi Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Iran Iran Helicopter Crash Iranian President

On Monday, Iranian state media confirmed that Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi had died following a helicopter accident in poor weather in a remote western mountain region. Always piously dressed in a black turban and religious robe, Iran's ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi had been in office during a tumultuous period of confrontation ...

Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's Hawkish Foreign Minister

par This Is Beirut, 20/05 07:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Ebrahim Raisi Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Iran Iran Helicopter Crash Iranian Foreign Minister

Iranian media has confirmed that Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian died on Monday morning following a helicopter crash in a mountainous region of north-west Iran. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, born in 1964, grew up in one of Tehran's poorest neighborhoods. In 1980, he volunteered to serve in the Iran-Iraq War, in what he called a ...

Iranian President and Foreign Minister Killed in Helicopter Crash

par This Is Beirut, 20/05 08:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Ebrahim Raisi Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Iran Iran Helicopter Crash Iranian President Rescue Efforts

Iran's President Raisi, and Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian have been declared dead on Monday, following a helicopter crash in northwest Iran. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared five days of mourning. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was declared dead on Monday after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western ...

Iran's Interim Ruler VP Mohammad Mokhber, a Pure Product of Islamic Republic

par Malo Pinatel, 20/05 08:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A prominent and influential figure in Iranian politics today, Mohammad Mokhber has held the position of First Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran since August 2021. Following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, he replaces the latter, according to the Iranian constitution. IRGC officer Born into a clerical family on May 11, 1955, ...

The World Reacts to Death of Iran's President and Foreign Minister

par This Is Beirut, 20/05 09:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Ebrahim Raisi Global Reaction Hamas Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Iran Helicopter Crash Iraq Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Iran's powerful allies on Monday mourned the death of its President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, while regional militants hailed him as a supporter of the Palestinian cause. Russia and China called the ultraconservative leader a "friend", while Iran's arch-foes the United States and Israel had yet to react publicly. Here is a roundup of ...