Iran
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Iran has foiled plot to use protests to overthrow system
Jan 9, 2018Iran has foiled attempts by its foreign enemies to turn legitimate protests into an insurgency to overthrow the Islamic Republic, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday. Comments on his Twitter feed and in Iranian... -
Iranian army commander offers to help police with protests
Jan 4, 2018Iran’s army chief said on Thursday police forces had already quelled anti-government unrest that has killed 21 people but that his troops were ready to intervene if needed, official media reported, as new state-sponsored protests were... -
Iranian crackdown intensifies after police posts attacked
Jan 2, 2018Police have arrested more than 450 protesters in the Iranian capital Tehran over the past three days, the deputy provincial governor said on Tuesday, as a crackdown intensified against anti-government demonstrations that began last week. Protesters... -
Top Israeli general sees increased Iran spending on foreign wars
Jan 2, 2018Iran spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to help allies fighting elsewhere in the Middle East and this outlay appears to be rising, Israel’s armed forces chief said on Tuesday. Lieutenant-General Gadi Eizenkot’s remarks coincided... -
Iran protests: Two more dead as further unrest grips Iran
Jan 1, 2018Two more people have been killed in anti-government protests in Iran that have entered a fifth day despite a call for calm from President Rouhani. A local MP said the pair were shot dead overnight in... -
Iran protests: ‘Iron fist’ threatened if unrest continues
Dec 31, 2017Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have warned anti-government protesters they will face the nation’s “iron fist” if political unrest continues. Three days of demonstrations erupted over falling living standards. But a Revolutionary Guards commander said the protests had... -
Iran warns it would increase missile range if threatened by Europe
Nov 26, 2017The deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned Europe that if it threatens Tehran, the Guards will increase the range of missiles to above 2,000 kilometers, the Fars news agency reported on Saturday. France has called... -
Iran ends quake rescue operations as hungry survivors battle the cold
Nov 14, 2017Rescue operations have ended in areas of Iran hit by a powerful weekend earthquake that killed at least 450 people and injured thousands, state television reported on Tuesday, as many survivors, in need of food and... -
Strong earthquake with 7.3 magnitude kills more than 300 people in Iran
Nov 13, 2017The earthquake was felt in several western provinces of Iran, but the hardest hit province was Kermanshah, which announced three days of mourning. More than 300 people were killed in Iran when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake... -
Bahrain calls pipeline blast ‘terrorism’ linked to Iran
Nov 12, 2017Bahrain said an explosion which caused a fire at its main oil pipeline on Friday was caused by “terrorist” sabotage, linking the unprecedented attack to its arch-foe Iran, which denies any role in the Gulf island...
