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Iran test-fires anti-warship cruise missile with a range of more than 600 miles

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Iran test-fires anti-warship cruise missile with a range of more than 600 miles

This handout photo provided by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official website Sepah News on February 1, 2025, shows a test launch during the unveiling of the Ghadr-380 naval cruise missile in an undisclosed location in Iran. The naval arm of the IRGC unveiled a new underground missile facility on the south coast in footage…

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India Seeks Iran’s Assistance After 3 Nationals Go Missing

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India Seeks Iran’s Assistance After 3 Nationals Go Missing

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday confirmed that three Indian nationals who travelled to Iran for business purposes have gone missing. MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated that India has taken up the matter with both the Iranian Embassy in New Delhi and the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran, adding that…

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Trump Redesignates Iran-Backed Houthi Rebels As Foreign Terrorist Organization

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Trump Redesignates Iran-Backed Houthi Rebels As Foreign Terrorist Organization

Former president Joe Biden had lifted that label when he took over the White House from Trump in 2021 Washington: US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to once again designate Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels a “foreign terrorist organization,” the White House announced Wednesday. Former president Joe Biden had lifted that label when he…

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Iran Sentences Pop Singer To Death For “Insulting” Prophet Muhammed

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Iran Sentences Pop Singer To Death For “Insulting” Prophet Muhammed

Tehran, Iran: An Iranian court has sentenced popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after he was convicted of blasphemy, local media reported on Sunday. “The Supreme Court accepted the prosecutor’s objection” to a previous five-year jail term on offences including blasphemy, reformist newspaper Etemad reported online. It said “the…

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2 Judges Shot Dead, 1 Injured Outside Iran’s Supreme Court In Tehran

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2 Judges Shot Dead, 1 Injured Outside Iran’s Supreme Court In Tehran

Another judge was injured in the attack. Tehran, Iran: Two judges were killed in a shooting attack on Saturday outside the Supreme Court building in Tehran, state media reported.  “Three judges of the Supreme Court were targeted. Two of them were martyred and one was injured,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported, adding that the…

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Iran TV shows missile base after paramilitary march against ‘threats’

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Iran TV shows missile base after paramilitary march against ‘threats’

A handout picture made available by the Iranian IRGC office on January 11, 2025, shows Hossein Salami (L), head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Guard’s airforce, touring an underground missile base in an undisclosed location in Iran. Iranian state TV on January 10 showed the commander of the Islamic…

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Iranian Woman Removes Cleric’s Turban, Wears It As Hijab In Bold Protest

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Iranian Woman Removes Cleric’s Turban, Wears It As Hijab In Bold Protest

A video from Iran showing a woman confronting a cleric at an airport in Mehrabad is going viral on social media. In the clip, shared on X by user Navid Mohebbi, the woman, seen without a hijab, angrily removes the cleric’s turban and places it on her head like a scarf during the altercation. “So…

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U.N. says Iran executed over 900 people in 2024, including dozens of women

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U.N. says Iran executed over 900 people in 2024, including dozens of women

At least 31 women were executed in 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering their husbands to fend off rape or after being forced into marriage, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday. Most…

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Over 900 People Executed In Iran Last Year, Including 40 In A Week: UN

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Over 900 People Executed In Iran Last Year, Including 40 In A Week: UN

Geneva, Switzerland: More than 900 people were reportedly executed in Iran last year, including around 40 in a single week in December, the United Nations rights chief said on Tuesday. “It is deeply disturbing that yet again we see an increase in the number of people subjected to the death penalty in Iran year-on-year,” Volker…

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