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3/1/2024 2:07:41 PM
Iranians voted on Friday in elections for parliament and a key clerical body, amid expectations of a low turnout and with conservatives expected to tighten their grip on power.
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World
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Region
2/28/2024 3:37:39 PM
Iran's supreme leader urged voters to come out in droves on Friday and show the foes of the Islamic Republic a "strong and fervent" election process for parliament and the key Assembly of Experts.
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World
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Region
2/27/2024 1:50:58 PM
As Iranians head to the polls for legislative and other elections on Friday, candidates have promised them on campaign posters to "fight corruption" and "fix the economy".
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World
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Region
12/28/2023 11:02:28 AM
Thousands massed Thursday in the Iranian capital for the funeral of senior Revolutionary Guards commander Razi Moussavi, three days after he was killed in an Israeli strike.
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World
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Region
8/12/2023 10:13:06 AM
The United States and Iran reached a tentative agreement this week that will eventually see five detained Americans in Iran and an unknown number of Iranians imprisoned in the US released from custody after billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets are transferred from banks in South Korea to Qatar.
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World
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Region
7/5/2023 9:56:59 PM
The US military said Wednesday it had blocked two attempts by the Iranian navy to seize commercial tankers in international waters off Oman, including one case in which the Iranians fired on the tanker.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
4/29/2023 6:13:11 PM
The first Iranian evacuees to escape the Sudan conflict through Saudi Arabia arrived on Saturday in Jeddah, relieved that their country has settled its differences with the regional rival.
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World
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Region
4/14/2023 5:09:45 PM
Tens of thousands of Iranians, some chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” marched in the capital of Tehran on Friday to mark Jerusalem Day, an annual show of support for the Palestinians.
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World
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Region
3/21/2023 10:01:33 AM
European ministers agreed on Monday to add eight Iranians and one of the Tehran government's most powerful bodies to EU sanctions lists, alleging human rights violations.
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World
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Region
1/8/2023 5:43:00 PM
Dozens of Iranians gathered Sunday outside the French embassy in Tehran protesting against cartoons of the Islamic republic's supreme leader by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
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World
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Region
12/16/2022 5:22:07 PM
Hundreds took to the streets Friday in Iran's restive southeast, footage shared by human rights groups showed, beginning the fourth month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death.
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World
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International
12/9/2022 1:27:39 PM
Britain on Friday announced wide-ranging sanctions against 30 targets worldwide, including officials in Iran accused of pursuing "egregious sentences" against anti-regime protesters.
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World
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Region
12/1/2022 6:12:40 PM
Iran's president paid a visit Thursday to Kurdistan province, the cradle of protests over Mahsa Amini's death, and urged people to thwart the "enemy" which his government accuses of stoking the unrest.
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World
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Region
11/5/2022 3:45:50 PM
Iranian students protested and shopkeepers went on strike Saturday despite a widening crackdown, according to reports on social media, as demonstrations that flared over Mahsa Amini's death entered the eighth week.
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World
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Region
11/1/2022 1:53:28 PM
Iranians staged new protest actions to denounce the country's theocratic regime in defiance of a crackdown that is now seeing those arrested put on trial and facing the death penalty.
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World
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Region
10/28/2022 2:51:40 PM
Iranians took to the streets around the country for a second successive night to protest against the killings of youths in a widely documented crackdown on demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini's death.
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World
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Region
10/22/2022 5:45:32 PM
Shopkeepers and factory workers went on strike in Iran on Saturday as women-led nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini entered the sixth week, activists said.
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World
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Region
10/20/2022 11:08:30 AM
Flashmob-style protests, images beamed onto tower blocks, water fountains dyed blood-red: young Iranians armed with little more than their phones have adopted a slew of tactics to give demonstrations over Mahsa Amini's death-staying power.
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World
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Region
10/13/2022 12:11:55 PM
Iran's president accused the U.S. on Thursday of conducting a ``failed policy of destabilization`` targeting his nation after Iranians in cities nationwide protested the death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of the country's morality police.
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World
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Region
10/12/2022 10:05:10 AM
As anti-government protests roil cities and towns in Iran for a fourth week, tens of thousands of Iranians living abroad have marched on the streets of Europe, North America and beyond in support of what many believe to be a watershed moment for their home country.
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