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TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) –Two people were killed in twin attacks on Iran’s parliament and the grounds of revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini’s mausoleum on Wednesday, state media reported, along with a female suicide bomber. A security guard was killed when gunmen burst into Tehran’s parliament complex, while a gardener was killed when armed assailants entered the grounds of Khomeini’s mausoleum in the south of the city, the ISNA news agency reported.
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — A suicide bomber detonated explosives at the tomb of Iranian revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini in southern Tehran on Wednesday, news agency ISNA reported. The agency reported one person killed but it was unclear if that meant the suicide bomber. The ILNA news agency said five people had been injured by shooting at the mausoleum.
by Ali Noorani Agence France-Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – In a working-class district of Tehran teeming with porters, motorbikes and pickup trucks, residents have little enthusiasm about next week’s presidential election. Iranians have tried it all — reformists, establishment figures, rabble-rousing populists, and for the past four years a moderate cleric, President Hassan Rouhani, who struck a historic deal to reintegrate Iran into the world. But residents of Molavi, in capital’s south, say their lives […]
by Stephane Barbier Agence France Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran on Thursday rejected a warning from President Donald Trump over its latest missile test as unfounded and “provocative”, reflecting growing tensions between Tehran and the new US administration. Trump is a strident critic of the Islamic republic and a vocal opponent of an international deal that saw Iran curb its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. He said on Thursday that Tehran […]
by Siavosh Ghazi Agence France-Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – Rescue workers in Tehran were desperately hunting for firefighters trapped under the rubble after a fire Thursday led to the collapse of Iran’s oldest high-rise, the 15-storey Plasco building. Officials had yet to confirm if anyone had been killed, but Tehran mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf told state television that between 20 and 25 firefighters were thought to be inside when the building fell. Three people were […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Tens of thousands of mourners led by Iran’s supreme leader gathered at Tehran University early on Tuesday for the funeral of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. State television showed people pouring on to the streets around the campus where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will lead the eulogies for Rafsanjani despite their “differences”. The heavyweight politician, who died on Sunday at the age of 82, will be buried inside the crypt of Ayatollah Ruhollah […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – by Ali NOORANI Iran said Thursday it had hanged 20 “terrorist” Sunni prisoners, in one of the Islamic republic’s biggest mass executions in recent years. The men, who were hanged on Tuesday, were accused of carrying out a string of attacks against civilians and religious leaders in Iran’s western Kurdish region, state media reported. Iran’s intelligence ministry earlier issued a statement detailing 24 armed attacks between 2009 and 2011, including bombings […]
