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The 2010 Khorasan shootout occurred on January 2, 2010, when Iranian police executing a drug raid were fired upon by drug smugglers [1] near the Iran-Afghanistan border. At least 10 Iranian police were killed; 7 died at the scene and three more died later as a result of injuries sustained during the shooting. [2] Reports also indicated that 4 ...
A frame from the video of Agha-Soltan's death by gunfire. The videos spread across the internet virally, quickly gaining the attention of international media and viewers. [44] Discussions about the incident on Twitter, using a hashtag of #neda, became one of the "'trending topics'" by the end of the day on 20 June 2009. [28]
Iran's anti-LGBT military law outing gays has been blamed for Fazeli Monfared's murder. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] According to individuals who had known Alireza Fazeli Monfared prior to his murder, he had faced years of homophobic and transphobic harassment, which he never reported to the police "out of a fear of facing violence and prosecution at the ...
The Biden administration has extended a sanctions waiver that allows Iran to access $10 billion in funds from Iraq – a move Republicans say frees up Iran to fund terrorism.
The Iranian consulate in Najaf was torched by an angry crowd of Iraqis a second time. [117] December 31 China Iraq: Baghdad: Anti-Chinese and anti-communist protesters torched the Chinese embassy after a rumor that China killed four Kata'ib Hezbollah members who were hiding in Xinjiang. 2020 February 10 Iran Nigeria: Abuja
On 23 September, the Iranian ministry summoned the United Arab Emirates' chargé d'affaires in Iran over a tweet made by Emirati professor Abdulkhaleq Abdulla about the attack which said: "A military attack against a military target is not a terrorist act and moving the battle to the Iranian side is a declared option". [38]
Bodyguard (Persian: بادیگارد) is a 2016 Iranian film about a middle-aged man who protects high-ranking political figures in Iran. It is written and directed by Iranian film director Ebrahim Hatamikia. [1] The film was first shown in the 34th Fajr International Film Festival. [2]
There are two conflicting versions of Rigi's arrest. According to the Iranian government, after visiting an American military base in Afghanistan on 23 February 2010, Rigi, with a forged Afghan passport, [4] was a passenger of a flight which traveled from Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.