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Wounded Iranian veterans from the 1980-1988 war with Iraq took to the streets to protest against low pension. One man praised former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein calling him 'good', as others chanted 'Thank you, Saddam'. Iranian security forces cracked down on the demonstrators and used tear gas to disperse them.
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Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf has conveyed President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's support for the "positive movement" in Arab-Iranian relations. This came in his meeting with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi on...
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Iran has publicly executed two people over a Daesh attack on a Shia shrine in the city of Shiraz last year. According to Iran's judiciary, the two men –...
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The Iraqi government has opened an investigation into the kidnapping of Israeli citizen, Elizabeth Tsurkov, in Baghdad in March, a government spokesperson told Reuters on Friday. Tsurkov went missing...
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized a tanker holding 900 metric tons of "smuggled fuel" and 12 crew members, based on a court order, a report by the semi-official Fars News...
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Iran's Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, met the Sudanese Foreign Minister for the first time since diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed seven years ago, the official IRNA...
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Iranian judicial authorities have ordered that a foreign-flagged tanker that allegedly ran into an Iranian vessel in the Sea of Oman be impounded for violation of maritime rules, state...
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A fact-finding mission mandated by the UN urged the Iranian authorities on Wednesday to stop executing people who were sentenced to death for taking part in anti-government protests that...
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Shots were fired at a tanker in sensitive Gulf waters on Wednesday, but the vessel and crew are safe, a British maritime security body said, the latest incident in...
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The UK, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine have taken Iran to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the downing of a civilian aircraft in 2020, the UN's top court...
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Public fury is growing in the Arab world over one of Israel's biggest military operations in the Occupied West Bank in years, yet Arab states which normalised ties with...
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Iran has reportedly executed at least 354 people in the first six months of 2023, in a fierce spike in executions carried out by the country's authorities in comparison...
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Iran, on Tuesday, gained full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at the end of the 23rd summit of the SCO Council of Heads of States, Anadolu Agency...
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A foreign relations adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader has praised the resumption of relations between Tehran and Egypt. "It will bring a new balance to the region," Ali Akbar...
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Kuwait renewed its call for Iran, on Monday, to demarcate maritime borders between the two countries, Anadolu Agency reports. The state news agency, KUNA, citing a Foreign Ministry source,...
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Pakistan has decided to charge the suspected human traffickers involved in last month's shipwreck off the coast of Greece under the country's anti-money laundering law, an official statement said...
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Iran has denounced an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin as "a criminal act" and "a clear example of state terrorism", Anadolu Agency reports. Nine...
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The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday called on the French government and police to "exercise restraint", renounce violence and pay attention to the protesters' demands, following the outbreak...
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Direct flights between Tehran and Cairo could start within a month, an Iranian source in the tourism industry revealed yesterday. Association of Iranian Travel Agencies Director Hormatollah Rafiei told...
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A senior official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the city of Homs, central Syria, at dawn yesterday, Iranian media...
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Saudi Arabia is planning to establish a new administrative body in the southern port city of Aden, the interim capital for the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC). According to...
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Iran will refrain from sending a new ambassador to Sweden in protest over the burning of a Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said...
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Israel is not nearing an attack on Iran's nuclear sites, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's national security adviser said on Friday, as talks between Tehran and Washington have sought to...
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Former Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat considers the normalisation of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia "an important goal, but not at any price," pointing out: "Israeli practises...
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Iran's state-run Nour News said on Friday Israel's report that it had foiled an attack in Cyprus by capturing an Iranian agent was an effort to cover up its...
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Iran's Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, on Thursday said the Islamic Republic welcomes the resumption and expansion of ties with Egypt and Morocco, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking at an event...
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Iran has summoned the Swedish chargé d'affaires to protest against the burning of a copy of the Quran in Sweden, state media reported, Anadolu Agency reports. The Swedish envoy...
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The Iranian police and the Russian National Guard signed a long-term cooperation pact on Wednesday aimed at boosting synergy between them in security and law enforcement, Anadolu Agency reports....
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Israel has seized millions of dollars worth of digital funds intended for use by the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group, Hezbollah, and the foreign Quds Force arm of Iran's Revolutionary...
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Iran's ambassador to Doha has announced that Qatar has released seven Iranian prisoners who will be returning to their home country, Anadolu Agency reports. Hamid Dehkan, on Tuesday, posted...
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Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, and Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, exchanged Eid Al-Adha greetings on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. "Iran and Qatar have good potential for the...
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Desertification in Iraq has now reached almost 70 per cent, according to a report published yesterday by Iraqi News. The report, citing an earlier one by Rudaw Arabic, said that Haider...