Tag: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Iran Presidential Election: After Raisi’s funeral, focus turns to vote for successor

May 28, 2024 admin

After Iran mourned president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a recent helicopter crash, the nation’s focus turns to an election next month for his successor, with the conservative camp seeking a loyalist to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The lead-up to the early vote on June 28 has opened up the field to a broad…

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Iran President Ebrahim Raisi’s Death Reshapes Succession, Puts Focus On Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son

May 21, 2024 admin

Power in the Islamic republic has in the last years become ever more concentrated. Paris: The death in a helicopter crash of president Ebrahim Raisi, seen as a possible successor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has reshuffled the cards in the succession process and increased the spotlight on the Iranian number one’s son Mojtaba…

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World leaders who died in air crashes

May 20, 2024 admin

(From left) Ramon Magsaysay, General Zia-ul-Haq, Ebrahim Raisi, Sebastian Pinera, and Samora Machel. On Monday, officials and state media announced that Ebrahim Raisi, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a hardliner considered a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border. The charred…

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Executions in Iran are up 30%, a new United Nations report says

November 2, 2023 admin

Iran is carrying out executions “at an alarming rate,” putting to death at least 419 people in the first seven months of the year, the United Nations chief said in a new report. That’s a 30% increase from the same period in 2022. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in the report to the U.N. General Assembly…

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‘No one can stop’ resistance if Israel keeps bombing Gaza: Iran

October 17, 2023 admin

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Oct. 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that Israel’s continuing offensive in Gaza could cause a violent reaction across…

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Iran’s Khamenei Denies Involvement In Hamas Attack On Israel Gaza Palestine

October 10, 2023 admin

Iran on Saturday celebrated the Hamas assault on Israel (File) Tehran: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday denied any Iranian involvement in Hamas’s shock weekend attack on Israel despite its strong support for the Palestinian terrorist group. “The supporters of the Zionist regime (Israel) and some people in the usurping regime have been spreading…

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