Iran

Heavy rains have triggered flash flooding in northern and western Iran, killing at least two people, Iranian state television reported Thursday. According to Pirhossein Koulivand, the head of the country’s emergency services, one…
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Iranian authorities on Tuesday released from jail prominent human rights lawyer Mostafa Nili, his attorney said, more than five months after he was arrested during nationwide protests. The demonstrations were triggered last year…
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Azerbaijan has arrested six men it said were linked to Iranian secret services and were plotting a coup in the Caspian nation. Baku said the six Azerbaijani nationals were “recruited by Iranian secret services to destabilize the…
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Suspected Israeli airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks have killed two Iranian military advisers, temporarily put the country’s two largest airports out of service, and raised fears of regional escalation. While Israel has fought a shadow…
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An attempt to smuggle a 2,000-year-old Iranian carving into the UK was thwarted recently when the item was seized by authorities at a British airport. The treasure, a large fragment from a Sasanian rock relief, depicts a male figure and…
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Pakistan’s army said on Saturday that attackers from Iran killed four of its border patrol soldiers. “A group of terrorists operating from Iranian side attacked a routine border patrol of Pakistani security forces operating along…
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Faced with an increasing number of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iran’s judiciary chief has threatened to prosecute “without mercy” women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media reported on Saturday. Gholamhossein Mohseni…
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The United States is seeking to keep more than 1 million rounds of ammunition the US Navy seized in December as it was in transit from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to militants in Yemen, the Justice Department said on…
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Egypt will soon allow Iranians traveling with tour groups to obtain visas on arrival in the south of its Sinai peninsula with a view to extending access to other parts of the country, Egyptian Tourism Ministry officials said. The…
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The death toll in US air strikes on pro-Iran installations in eastern Syria has risen to 19 fighters, a Syrian war monitor said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest exchanges between the US and Iran-aligned forces in years. The US…
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