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Airstrike Iran Pakistan tehran
Pakistan said that the Iranian airstrike killed two children on its soil, while Iran's Nour News reported the strike targeted the Jaish al-Adl group's Pakistani headquarters. Pakistan denounced on Wednesday the Iranian air strike on its territory, which occurred less than 24 hours after Tehran launched similar attacks in Iraq and Syria against ...
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Pakistani air strikes on Iran killed nine people in a border region in the Islamic Republic's southeast on Thursday, state media reported, updating an earlier toll of seven dead. "Two men were also killed in the missile attack this morning in one of the border villages of Saravan, bringing the death toll to nine," the official IRNA news agency ...
par This Is Beirut, 25/01 08:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran Nuclear tehran Washington
Indirect negotiations in Oman on the nuclear issue between Iran and the United States have reportedly been suspended. One might claim they were suspended by mutual agreement, but it would be more accurate to say that it was due to considerations linked to the interests of each of the two countries. Tehran is stalling and does not seem to want to ...
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Iran Islamabad Israel-Hamas war Jaish al-Adl Pakistan Sistan-Baluchistan tehran
Gunmen in southeastern Iran near the Pakistan border killed nine foreign nationals Saturday, more than a week after the neighbors exchanged deadly cross-border fire, Iranian news agency Mehr reported. "According to witnesses, unknown armed men killed nine non-Iranians this morning in a house in the Sirkan neighborhood of Saravan city" in ...
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Death Penalty Human rights in Iran Iran Iran Executions Mahsa Amini tehran This is Beirut
Death penalty was applied at least 834 times in Iran in 2023, according to several NGOs, which point to a massive increase" since the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022. Iran executed a "staggering" total of at least 834 people last year, the highest number since 2015 as capital punishment surged in the Islamic republic, two rights groups ...
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Iran irna Islamic Republic of Iran oil tehran This is Beirut
One person was killed and two others were injured in an incident at an oil refinery in southern Iran on Thursday, state media reported. The incident occurred during repair work on a furnace of the Aftab oil refinery company, a private firm located near the port city of Bandar Abbas, said the official IRNA news agency. The company said in a ...
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Crimes Against Humanity Iran Mahsa Amini tehran This is Beirut UN women in Iran
According to a UN-mandated expert report published on Friday, March 8, the crackdown on the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran in September 2022 led to crimes against humanity. The violent repression of peaceful protests and discrimination against women and girls by Tehran led to serious rights violations, many amounting to ...
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Iran IRGC Islamic Republic of Iran Israel Israel-Hamas war tehran
A few thousand people gathered in Iran's main cities to welcome and support the unprecedented attack launched on Saturday night against Israel, the Islamic Republic's nemesis for the past 45 years. Thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Iran early Sunday in a show of support for the unprecedented drone and missile attack under way against ...
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Alcohol Prohibition Iran Iranian Police Raids Satanist tehran
Iranian authorities have arrested 30 people suspected of belonging to a "satanist network" at an event with "alcoholic drinks", local media reported Thursday. A total of "18 men and 12 women" were arrested at a gathering in the northern province of Mazandaran, Fars news agency reported, without specifying when the raid took place. Police forces ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/06 13:44 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Elections in Iran Iran tehran US sanctions
Iranians broadly deplore Western sanctions that battered the economy, but the country's six presidential candidates offer differing solutions – assuming the winner gets a say on foreign policy. Punishing US sanctions, reimposed following Washington's withdrawal from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal, have brought years of economic hardships, ...
par This Is Beirut, 27/06 11:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran Iran Presidential Elections Presidential Elections Presidential Race tehran
Two ultraconservative candidates have pulled out of Iran's Friday presidential vote, leaving four contenders including one reformist still in the race. Tehran's ultraconservative mayor, Alireza Zakani, announced his withdrawal in a post on social media platform X on Thursday, after earlier denying he was ending his campaign. Zakani's withdrawal ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/08 13:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Abbas Araghchi Iran tehran United States
Iran's new government will seek to "manage tensions" with its arch-enemy, the United States, to help reduce pressure and neutralize crippling sanctions, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. "What we have to do is manage the tensions and hostilities" between Tehran and Washington, he said in an interview late Friday on state television. Iran and ...
