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Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh [1] were sentenced to execution by hanging in 2009 for converting to Christianity in Iran. [2] [3] [4] They were detained in the notorious Evin Prison for 259 days [5] [6] [7] where they were tortured and interrogated. [8] After gaining freedom, the two women wrote Captive in Iran which detailed their ...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region ...
At around 13:30 IRST , the helicopter crashed approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south-west of the village of Uzi, [12] [13] [14] in the Dizmar Forest region, a wildlife corridor in Varzaqan County, East Azerbaijan province. [15] [16] [b] The head of the President's Office, Gholam-Hossein Esmaeili, was in one of the other helicopters. He ...
After the death of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, expect the internal power struggle to begin – and Iranian people again left with no voice – writes Frida Ghitis.
Iran proclaimed five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday, though the muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief that has accompanied the deaths of other ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh Part of the Israel–Hamas war and the 2024 Iran–Israel conflict Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh (Tehran) Location Tehran, Iran Coordinates 35°49′10″N 51°24′57″E / 35.81944°N 51.41583°E / 35.81944; 51.41583 Date 31 July 2024 ~2:00 a.m. (IRST ...
The crash came two months after Iran launched a massive missile and drone attack on Israel, retaliating for an Israeli airstrike that killed two senior Iranian generals in Syria on April 1.
Syria – President Bashar al-Assad expressed condolences over the passing of Iran's former president and chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. In separate messages to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Assad said the news of Ayatollah Rafsanjani's passing caused great ...