Tag: Iran

Iran executes 4 over links to Israeli intelligence: judiciary

Tehran, Iran (AFP) Iran on Sunday put to death four people accused of working with Israel’s intelligence service, the judiciary said. “This morning, the sentences of four main members of the gang of mobsters related to the Zionist intelligence service were executed,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported. Iran carried out the sentences four days after the Islamic republic’s supreme court upheld the penalty of capital punishment for “their intelligence cooperation with the Zionist regime […]

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‘Three dead’ as Iran protests swell on anniversary of lethal 2019 crackdown

PARIS, France (AFP) — Iranian security forces shot dead at least three protesters Tuesday, a rights group said, as demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death swelled on the anniversary of a bloody 2019 crackdown. The protesters were responding to a call to commemorate those slain in the 2019 crackdown, giving new momentum to the demonstrations sparked by the death of 22-year-old Amini in mid-September this year, after her arrest for allegedly flouting Iran’s strict dress […]

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Iran hypersonic missile claim raises nuclear watchdog concern

TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — An Iranian general claimed Thursday that the Islamic republic had developed a hypersonic missile capable of penetrating all defense systems, raising concerns from the UN nuclear watchdog. Hypersonic missiles, which like traditional ballistic missiles can deliver nuclear weapons, can fly at more than five times the speed of sound. “This hypersonic ballistic missile was developed to counter air defense shields,” General Amirali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps […]

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Iran security forces ‘open fire’ as thousands mourn Mahsa Amini

PARIS, France (AFP) — Iranian security forces opened fire on protesters who massed in their thousands Wednesday in Mahsa Amini’s hometown to mark 40 days since her death, according to a rights group and verified videos. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, died on September 16, three days after her arrest in Tehran by the notorious morality police for allegedly breaching the Islamic dress code for women. Anger flared at her funeral and quickly […]

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Iran vows ‘immediate’ response to new EU sanctions

Tehran, Iran (AFP) — Iran vowed Monday an “immediate” response to the European Union as it prepares new sanctions on the Islamic republic after over a month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. EU foreign ministers met Monday to adopt sanctions on Iran, including on the morality police in whose custody Amini died on September 16 after she was detained for allegedly breaching Iran’s strict dress code for women. Iran will “decide and act […]

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Taliban fire into air to disperse women’s rally backing Iran protests

KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Taliban forces fired shots into the air on Thursday to disperse a women’s rally supporting protests in Iran over the death of a woman in the custody of morality police. Deadly protests have erupted in neighboring Iran for the past two weeks, following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while detained by the Islamic republic’s morality police. Chanting the same “Women, life, freedom!” mantra used in demonstrations in Iran, about 25 […]

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Iran’s Raisi condemns ‘chaos’ of protests after Mahsa Amini’s death

by Stuart Williams Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi condemned Wednesday the “chaos” sparked by a wave of women-led protests over the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the Islamic republic’s morality police. “Those who took part in the riots must be dealt with decisively, this is the demand of the people,” said Raisi in a televised interview. “People’s safety is the red line of the Islamic republic […]

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Iran arrests ex-president Rafsanjani’s daughter: news agency

Tehran, Iran (AFP) Iran on Tuesday arrested the daughter of ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani for inciting protests, the Tasnim news agency said, amid a wave of demonstrations over the death of a young woman. “Faezeh Hashemi has been arrested in the east of Tehran by a security agency for inciting rioters to street protests,” Tasnim reported, without elaborating. Iranians on Tuesday staged a 12th straight night of protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22. […]

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Israel PM: World must use force if Iran builds nuclear bomb

UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The international community should use military force if Iran develops nuclear weapons, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid told the United Nations on Thursday, as he reiterated support for creation of a “peaceful” Palestinian state. Israel has been conducting an intense diplomatic offensive in recent months to try to persuade the United States and main European powers such as Britain, France and Germany not to renew the 2015 Iran nuclear […]

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Death toll mounts in Iran protests as online services cut

PARIS, France (AFP) — At least 17 people have been killed as popular unrest flared Thursday across Iran over the death in custody of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, local media reported, as online services were cut in a security crackdown. Amini, 22, died last week after her arrest by the Islamic republic’s feared morality police for allegedly wearing a hijab headscarf in an “improper” way, and news of her death sparked widespread outrage. Protesters have […]

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Protests spread in Iran over woman’s death: state media

  TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Protests spread to 15 cities across Iran overnight over the death of the young woman Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the country’s morality police, state media reported on Wednesday. In the fifth night of street rallies, police used tear gas and made arrests to disperse crowds of up to 1,000 people, the official IRNA news agency said. Demonstrators blockaded streets, hurled stones at security forces, set fire to police […]

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China’s Xi to meet Iran’s Raisi at regional summit

BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping will have his first face-to-face discussion with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi on Friday, state media reported. The meeting comes days after the Europen Union warned that negotiations to bring Iran and the US back into a nuclear deal curbing Tehran’s nuclear program are in “stalemate”. China is one of the key members of the multilateral dialogue — alongside France, Germany, Britain, Russia and the United States […]

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