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Monthly Archives: September 2024

Kremlin says trade growing with Iran amid pager attacks, use of Russian comm devices

Al-Arabia – The Kremlin, commenting on a Reuters report that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was mostly using homemade or Russian- or Chinese-made communications devices, said on Monday that Moscow’s trade links with Tehran were developing. An Iranian security official told Reuters that Iran was concerned about infiltration by Israeli agents following deadly pager attacks on Lebanon’s Hezbollah this …

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Iranian hardline newspaper calls for retaliation against Biden

iranintl – A hardline newspaper in Tehran has raised the issue of President Joe Biden becoming a “legitimate” target after he leaves office, due to the US role in the Israeli plot to assassinate “leaders of the resistance.” The ultra-hardline Farhikhtegan newspaper wrote on Monday: “The Biden administration has played a central role in both the security planning of resistance leaders’ assassinations …

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Iranian dailies clash over reaction to Nasrallah’s death

iranintl – Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s death has sparked reactions across Iran’s government-controlled press, with conservative, hardline, and reformist newspapers offering their differing perspectives. The conservative newspaper Jomhouri Eslami condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, likening him to historical figures such as Genghis Khan and Hitler. The paper also criticized the United Nations for allowing a “war criminal” to address …

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Safieddine named new Hezbollah leader, report says

iranintl – Hashem Safieddine, a prominent figure in Hezbollah’s leadership, has been named by the group’s executive council as the successor to Hassan Nasrallah as Secretary General, according to sources cited by Al-Arabiya on Sunday. Nasrallah was killed in his highly secure underground headquarters, built under a complex of six buildings in the heart of Dahieh, the southern suburbs of …

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Iran and Nasrallah: Financial Aid and Suppressing Protests

Iranwire – Hassan Nasrallah, the former Secretary General of Hezbollah in Lebanon, was known for his harsh and provocative statements against Israel, often emphasizing its imminent destruction. He repeatedly said that “the Zionist regime will soon be destroyed” and warned that if Lebanon were to come under attack, Israel would be sent back to the “stone age.” He was killed  …

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Multiple Attacks Rock Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province

Iranwire – Iranian media reported on Sunday that multiple attacks on security forces in Sistan and Baluchistan Province had been carried out, resulting in several deaths and injuries. In Rask County, armed assailants targeted two military vehicles in the Peshamag area. Tasnim news agency confirmed that one soldier was killed and two were wounded in the attack.  The militant group …

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Alcohol Poisoning Claims Six Lives in Iran

Iranwire – Iranian media reported on Sunday that at least six people have died from alcohol poisoning caused by counterfeit beverages in the northern cities of Chalous and Rasht. According to ISNA, the president of Gilan University of Medical Sciences said that four people who had been hospitalized in Rasht due to alcohol poisoning had succumbed to the effects.  Mohammad …

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Iran Executes Two in Public Amid Rising Death Penalty Use

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s authorities have executed two people in public. The executions come amidst a concerning trend of increasing use of the death penalty in the country. Ebrahim Gamizi, the prosecutor of central Khomein, announced that the sentence of two “armed robbers responsible for the death of Second Lieutenant Morteza Barati” was carried out in public. According to …

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Kurdish Political Prisoner Denied In-Person Visits with Family

Iranwire – Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a life sentence in Yazd Central Prison, has been deprived of the right to in-person visits with her family by order of the Ministry of Intelligence. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Jalalian, now in her seventeenth year of incarceration, was recently denied visitation rights with her family. Since her …

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Abbas Nilforoushan: Who Was the IRGC Commander Killed in Beirut?

Iranwire – Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, the Deputy Commander of Operations for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed alongside Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut.  On the night of September 27, several accounts affiliated with the IRGC expressed concerns about the health of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, and “Haj Abbas.” First, …

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