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The two were believed to have been juveniles at the time of the offense, and one is believed to have been a juvenile at the time of his execution. Iran frequently executes people for offenses committed as children, a practice condemned by international human rights treaties. [12] The facts of the case are still subject to heated debate.
Iranian Kurdish dissident Suspected Iranian agents 15 December 2015 Almere Netherlands: Mohammad-Reza Kolahi Samadi: People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) Suspected Iranian agents 29 April 2017 Istanbul Turkey: Saeed Karimian: Iranian television executive, owner of Dubai-based GEM TV: VAJA: 8 November 2017 The Hague Netherlands: Ahmad Mola Nissi
76 persons --mostly women/children-- who were in the shelter, were killed and more than 200 persons were injured Iran Air Flight 655: 3 July 1988 Strait of Hormuz, near Qeshm Island: 290 United States Navy: Airliner shootdown by United States Navy 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners: July–December 1988 Iran: 2,800–30,000 ...
Iran on Saturday executed two men it accused of carrying out a deadly attack on a shrine in Shiraz in October 2022, according to state-run news agency IRNA.
Two bombs exploded and killed at least 95 people Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said, as the Middle East ...
State television showed demonstrators carrying pictures of those killed and banners with slogans such as "Death to Israel" and "Death to America". The dead included one of Iran's top soldiers ...
A positive value represents more people entering Iran than leaving the country. Despite stagnation in the economy, Iran's Human Development Index rating (including life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living) improved significantly in the years after the revolution, climbing from 0.569 in 1980 to 0.759 in 2007/8. [11]
The Imperial State of Iran, the government of Iran during the Pahlavi dynasty, lasted from 1925 to 1979.The use of torture and abuse of prisoners varied at times during the Pahlavi reign, according to one history, [6] but both of two monarchs – Reza Shah Pahlavi and his son Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi – employed censorship, secret police, torture, and executions.