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Iran Elections Emptied of Their Substance

Malo Pinatel, 2024-02-29 19:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

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A double ballot is scheduled to take place in Iran on Friday, March 1. In a country where power remains monopolized by the mullahs, what is the true significance of these elections? This Is Beirut contacted Bernard Hourcade, director of the CeRMI (Centre de recherche sur le monde iranien), to answer these questions. On Friday, March 1, about 61 ...

Iran Strikes 'Terrorist and Spy' Targets in Iraq and Syria

This Is Beirut, 2024-01-16 09:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Iran's Revolutionary Guards attacked 'terrorist' targets in Syria and Iraq's Kurdistan on Monday, killing four people and wounding six others, and drawing United States criticism for recklessness and destabilization concerns. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they launched missile attacks on multiple 'terrorist' targets in Syria and Iraq's ...

Israeli Strike on Damascus Airport: 11 IRGC Leaders Killed

This Is Beirut, 2023-12-29 20:26 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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On Thursday evening, an Israeli strike on Damascus International Airport killed eleven leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to the Saudi TV channel Al-Hadath. This information was denied by the spokesman of the IRGC. Eleven leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an air strike targeting ...

Contrasting Views on October 7 Within the IRGC

This Is Beirut, 2023-12-28 13:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The head of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards reaffirmed on Thursday that Tehran was not involved in the October 7 attacks. He made this statement in Tehran at the funeral of an official of the organization killed in Syria. His remarks contradicted those of the IRGC spokesman, who had said the opposite the previous day. The head of the Islamic ...

IRGC Vows Revenge against Israel over General's Killing

This Is Beirut, 2023-12-27 18:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday, issued a warning to Israel, stating that either the Iranian military or its affiliated groups would take "direct" action in retaliation for the killing of senior commander Razi Moussavi. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Israel on Wednesday that it or its allied groups would ...

Iran's IRGC Tries to Claim Back 'Al-Aqsa Flood,' Hamas Denies It

This Is Beirut, 2023-12-27 14:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesman said on Wednesday, December 27 that the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7 were carried out in revenge for the US drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani, former head of the al-Quds Force, the IRGC's foreign operations arm, on January 3, 2020. "Al-Aqsa Flood was one of the acts ...

Israeli Strike Kills IRGC Commander in Syria

This Is Beirut, 2023-12-25 20:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A high-ranking officer from Iran's Revolutionary Guards succumbed to an Israeli airstrike in Syria on Monday, as confirmed by the military force, which pledged to retaliate against "this act of aggression." A senior general with Iran's Revolutionary Guards was killed on Monday by an Israeli strike in Syria, the military force said, vowing to ...

Iran Executes 'Child Bride' for Husband's Murder

This Is Beirut, 2023-12-20 21:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iran executed a woman on Wednesday, who had been found guilty of murdering her husband. She had entered into the marriage as a child, and despite international pleas for leniency, the execution proceeded, according to human rights organizations. Iran hanged a woman on Wednesday convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while she was ...

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