Updated: Tehran signals no retaliation against Israel after drones attack Iran
Last updated: 8:30am, 20th April, 2024 (AEST) Jerusalem/Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation – a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war. Iran’s foreign minister […]
Iran vote turnout hits historic low amid discontent
Reuters Turnout for Iran’s parliamentary election, seen as a test of the clerical establishment’s legitimacy, appears to have hit an historic low of around 41 per cent, according to unofficial reports quoted by state media on Saturday. The election followed anti-government protests in 2022-23 that spiralled into some of Iran’s worst political turmoil since the […]
US launches retaliatory strikes in Iraq, Syria; nearly 40 reported killed
Washington DC, US/Baghdad, Iraq Reuters The United States launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and militias it backs, reportedly killing nearly 40 people, in retaliation for a deadly attack on US troops. The strikes, which included the use of long-range B-1 bombers flown from the […]
Gunmen in Iran kill nine Pakistanis days after tit-for-tat strikes
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Unidentified gunmen killed nine Pakistani workers in a restive south-eastern border area of Iran on Saturday, Pakistan’s ambassador and Iranian state media said, amid efforts by the two countries to mend ties after tit-for-tat attacks. “Deeply shocked by horrifying killing of 9 Pakistanis in Saravan. Embassy will extend full support […]
Iran celebrates 1979 US embassy seizure amid anti-government protests
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Iran held state-sponsored annual rallies on Friday marking the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, as the clerical establishment that has ruled since then struggles to suppress nationwide protests calling for its downfall. Radical students cemented Iran’s Islamic Revolution by storming the embassy soon after the fall of the […]
Security forces tear gas students defying Iran protest ultimatum
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Protests in Iran entered a more violent phase on Sunday as students, who defied an ultimatum by the Revolutionary Guards and a warning from the President, were met with tear gas and gunfire from security forces, social media videos showed. The confrontations at dozens of universities prompted the threat of a […]
Islamic State claims Iran shrine attack, Iran vows response
Updated: 4pm (AEST)Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters The militant group Islamic State said it carried out an attack on a Shi’ite Muslim shrine in Iran on Wednesday which killed 15 people, escalating tensions in a country reeling from a wave of protests and prompting warnings of a response from Tehran. Iranian officials said they had arrested […]
Iran’s Raisi warns against “acts of chaos” over Mahsa Amini’s death
New York, US/Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Thursday that “acts of chaos” are not acceptable, in a warning to protesters who have taken to the streets across the country in fury over the death of a woman in the morality police’s custody. Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines […]
Winner of Iran’s presidency is hardline judge who is under US sanctions
Dubai, UAEReuters Ebrahim Raisi’s record of fierce loyalty to Iran’s ruling clerics helped explain why the senior judge had been expected to win Friday’s presidential election, a contest the authorities limited almost exclusively to hardline candidates like him. The win for Raisi, 60, an implacable critic of the West whose political patron is Supreme Leader […]