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Two Pilots Dead As Iranian Fighter Jet Crashes During Training Mission

RFL/RE – Two Iranian Air Force pilots were killed when their F-7 fighter jet crashed during a training mission near the city of Naeen in central Iran. The state news agency IRNA said the crash occurred in the morning on May 24. The state ISNA news agency quoted a military official as saying that it appeared a “technical issue” caused the accident, …

RFL/RE – Last year saw a “worrying rise” in global executions in 2021 amid an easing in pandemic restrictions, Amnesty International has said, with Iran recording its highest number of state-sanctioned killings since 2017. The global number of executions saw a 20 percent increase over 2020, with Iran accounting for most of the rise. The global totals do not include …

Iranwire – At least 10 people have been killed and 55 injured after a 10-storey commercial building in Abadan, Khuzestan province, collapsed during construction on Monday. The planned Metropol Complex was located on Amiri Street, one of the busiest roads in the city. The head of the fire department reported on Monday that 100 to 150 people were at the …

Iranwire – On Sunday, May 22, an IRGC colonel by the name of Hassan Sayyad Khodaei was shot dead in Tehran by two unidentified gunmen on a motorbike. Earlier today IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif blamed elements in “the global domination system and Zionism” for the assassination. Insiders said the assassinated colonel’s nom de guerre was “Hunter”, a pseudonym that matched his mission – which, according to Haaretz, was …

Iranwire – For the last nine days, Tehran residents wanting to get somewhere by bus were presented not with the usual service run by Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, but minibuses with license plates belonging to the IRGC and the police. Drivers with the TSBC and also the high-speed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service were on strike over the municipality’s …

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VOA – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that efforts underway to norma…

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