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The modern Middle East has seen a number of occasions in which the assassination of high-level government and military figures was attempted, or at least considered. Such instances include United States decapitation strike air raids targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1991, 1998, and 2003, in addition to killings or attempted killings of non-state ...
On September 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian girl was killed in the custody of Iran's morality police in Tehran, for not properly wearing a compulsory hijab. In Iran, the slogan "Women, Life, Freedom" was first used at Mahsa's burial and later followed through nationwide protests against the totalitarian regime of Iran."
An ultraconservative president, 63-year-old Raisi was killed Sunday, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other high-ranking officials, in a helicopter crash in Iran’s remote ...
An Iranian woman without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walks in a street in Tehran, Iran, 15 September 2024, on the second anniversary of protests following Mahsa Amini's death (EPA)
Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber (right) attends the emergency meeting, held by government council, following the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other senior government ...
After their deaths, pictures of Shakarami and Esmailzadeh appeared on banners during protests and on posters in Iranian cities. [1] Videos created by Esmailzadeh were shared online after her death, [5] and hackers interrupted a government-run news broadcast in Iran with pictures of Esmailzadeh and other women killed during the protests. [6] [7]
Nika Shakarami was born on 2 October 2005 [4] in Khorramabad, Lorestan province, to a Lur family. [5] [6] Little is publicly known of her background. [7]She had family ties to Khorramabad in southwestern Iran, [7] the city having been her father's hometown. [4]
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.