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The two judges were reportedly adjudicating cases of student protesters, artists, intellectuals and activists [4] in bench trials and had roles in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners. [1] [5] The perpetrator killed himself soon after the shooting, before he could be apprehended. [6] No potential motive has been released. [7]
Two judges of Iran’s Supreme Court were shot dead and a third wounded in Tehran on Saturday, the judiciary’s news website said. The attacker reportedly killed himself after opening fire at the ...
North-Western Iran 5,000 Cinema Rex fire: 19 August 1978 Abadan: 470 Unknown Black Friday: 8 September 1978 Tehran: 88–4,000 Imperial Army of Iran: Haft-e Tir bombing: 28 June 1981 Tehran 74 MEK: 74 people are killed in a bombing targeting a meeting of leaders of the Islamic Republican Party at the party's headquarters
On August 19, 1978, in the midst of the Iranian Revolution, more than 420 people were killed when the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran was set on fire during a showing of the movie The Deers. At the time the tragedy was blamed on the regime of Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, generated great popular anger and contributed to his overthrow. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Two Iranian Supreme Court judges were shot and killed while a third judge was wounded Saturday. The incident happened in Tehran on Saturday, according to the judiciary's Mizan news website.
The Jan. 3 attack, in which two suicide bombers targeted a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike in Iraq, was the deadliest in Iran in decades as the wider Middle ...
On 7 April 1979, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, former prime minister of Iran, was executed. [33] Two days later on 9 April ten senior officials of the Shah, including two generals and a cabinet member, were executed in Tehran. [34] Those killed included commander-in-chief of the air force, Amir Hossein Rabi'i. [34]
More than 100 people have killed and another 200 injured in two explosions near the tomb of Iran's former top commander – who was assassinated in a US drone strike in 2020.. The blasts occurred ...