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1/19/2023 11:48:33 AM
Iran condemned as "inappropriate and incorrect" Thursday a call by the European Parliament to blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror group.
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1/18/2023 9:51:51 PM
The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to urge Brussels to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terror group, amid mounting pressure on Western powers to do so.
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1/18/2023 12:08:53 PM
A son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been freed after serving more than seven years of a 10-year jail sentence for fraud, Iranian media reported Wednesday.
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1/17/2023 7:35:35 PM
UN rights experts on Tuesday slammed Iran's "arbitrary detention" of Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, who has been sentenced to over a decade behind bars, as a "flagrant violation" of international law.
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1/17/2023 9:29:17 AM
Amid Yemen’s longest-ever pause in fighting — more than nine months — Saudi Arabia and its rival, the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, have revived back-channel talks, hoping to strengthen the informal cease-fire and lay out a path for a negotiated end to the long civil war, according to Yemeni, Saudi and U.N. officials.
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1/16/2023 11:31:32 PM
Up to 12,000 people marched Monday to the EU Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters while the Eiffel Tower lit the night with the slogan “Woman. Life. Freedom,” which embodies the protest movement spilling beyond Iran.
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1/16/2023 9:45:32 PM
Thousands of members of the Iranian diaspora from all over Europe on Monday demonstrated in the EU parliament host city of Strasbourg to urge the bloc to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terror group.
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1/14/2023 3:47:00 PM
Iran said Saturday it had executed a dual Iranian-British national who once worked for its defense ministry over spy claim for UK intelligence and summons the British ambassador in Teheran.
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1/13/2023 4:36:47 PM
An explosion suspected to have been caused by a gas leak at a building in northwestern Iran killed six members of the same family, state media said Friday.
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1/13/2023 3:56:35 PM
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian expressed hope Friday that diplomatic ties between Tehran and Riyadh can be restored through dialogue between the two regional arch-rivals.
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1/12/2023 6:05:09 PM
An Iranian-British dual national sentenced to be hanged for spying for UK intelligence once held roles at the top of Tehran's defence and security establishment, Iran's state media said Thursday.
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1/11/2023 7:11:58 PM
Iran's supreme court has temporarily suspended the execution of death row convict Mohammad Boroghani who was found guilty of charges related to the country's wave of protests, the judiciary said Wednesday.
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1/11/2023 12:50:07 PM
French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iran's religious rulers on Tuesday, with fresh cartoons of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei despite protests from Iran and its allies.
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1/11/2023 12:10:13 PM
The U.S. Navy seized over 2,100 assault rifles from a ship in the Gulf of Oman it believes came from Iran and were bound for Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, a Navy spokesman said Tuesday. It was the latest capture of weapons allegedly heading to the Arab world's poorest country.
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1/10/2023 5:30:13 PM
Iran has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to a lengthy prison term and 74 lashes after convicting him of espionage charges in a closed-door trial, state media reported Tuesday.
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1/10/2023 3:09:49 PM
Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement on Tuesday condemned cartoons of Iran's supreme leader published last week by the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, calling on Paris to punish the satirical magazine.
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1/10/2023 11:42:50 AM
Pope Francis on Monday broke his silence on the nationwide protests convulsing Iran, denouncing the recourse to the death penalty there and seemingly legitimizing the rallies as demonstrations "demanding greater respect for the dignity of women.''
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1/9/2023 9:33:48 PM
As 2023 kicks off, we perform the familiar ritual of celebrating the year gone by, while heralding the new one with the false promise of new beginnings. We make resolutions—to stop smoking, lose weight, find more time to relax—the same ones we’ve made before and failed to keep, hoping that this time will be different.
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1/9/2023 8:33:43 PM
Iranian activist Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been sentenced to five years over "propaganda" and acts against national security, her lawyer told AFP on Monday.
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1/9/2023 12:45:44 PM
Iran has sentenced to death three more people, accused of killing three members of the security forces during the protests triggered by Mahsa Amini's death, the judiciary said Monday.
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