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Member of Iran's powerful clerical body assassinated - Fars

A member of Iran's influential clerical body was assassinated in the country's northern province of Mazandaran on Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, adding that the suspected killer had been detained.

Reuters

Israel's domestic turmoil raises serious questions about its long-term survival

In late 2022, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won Israel’s fifth election in the past three years by forming a coalition with far-right religious extremists whose ilk were previously considered beyond the pale in Israeli politics.

The Conversation

Iranian prison guards break knees of woman, 70, locked up in notorious Evin jail

Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was brutally battered during interrogation after being sentenced to 10 years in Tehran's notorious Evin jail - which also housed freed Brit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - for anti-government protests

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Timeline: Saudi-Iranian ties - A history of ups and downs

The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia met in China for the first formal meeting of their most senior diplomats in more than seven years, Saudi state-run Al Ekhbariya television said, under a deal to revive ties between the regional superpowers.

Reuters

Iran’s Khamenei says US wants to keep Ukraine war going

The supreme leader accuses Washington of starting the war, saying it benefits US weapons manufacturers.

Al Jazeera

Commentary: China gets the credit for improving Iran-Saudi Arabia ties — but the US benefits

There was a time, only a few short years ago, when Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman thought Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was worse than Adolf Hitler. “I believe that the Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good,” Prince Mohammed told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in a…

Chicago Tribune

Timeline: Iran and Saudi Arabia, from rivalry to rapprochement

Iran and Saudi Arabia have had an adversarial history. Here’s a look at recent important events in their relations.

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More than 5,000 cases of children being poisoned, Iran official says amid arrests

‘A number of people’ suspected of manufacturing hazardous substances arrested, Iran’s interior ministry says

The Independent UK

Iran’s supreme leader swears those who poisoned schoolgirls will face death penalty

The unexplained poisoning incidents have come at a fraught time for young girls in Iran who have been targeted for their role in leading nationwide anti-government protests

Daily Mirror

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Trump’s threat of a third-party run is undercut by ‘sore loser’ laws

Tribune News Service

Iran supreme leader calls suspected schoolgirl poisonings ‘unforgivable’

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says culprits should be severely punished, amid signs hundreds of girls have been treated in hospital

The Guardian - UK

Iran supreme leader calls wave of school poisonings ‘big crime’

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged officials to “seriously pursue” cases of suspected poisonings at girls’ schools around the country, which left hundreds of students hospitalized and sparked nationwide anger.

Tribune News Service

Iran’s top leader says suspected poisonings ‘unforgivable’ and deserve death penalty

It is the first time Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all matters of state, has spoken publicly about the suspected poisonings

The Independent UK

Iran supreme leader orders punishment for schoolgirl poisoning

Ayatollah Khamenei says no doubt the poisonings are deliberate as a top judge suggests perpetrators may face execution.

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Iran's supreme leader says suspected poisonings in girls’ schools 'unforgivable crime'

Iran's supreme leader said Monday that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls' schools are proven to be deliberate the culprits should be sentenced to death for committing an “unforgivable crime.”

The Independent UK

Iran's top leader says suspected poisonings 'unforgivable'

Iran’s supreme leader says that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls’ schools are proven to be deliberate, the culprits should be sentenced to death for committing an “unforgivable crime.”

The Guardian - UK

Iranian officials to investigate ‘revenge’ poisoning of schoolgirls

The attacks on female students – called an act of ‘biological terrorism’ – are thought to be retaliation for protests against hijabs in the country

WEKU

Despite Khamenei's amnesty, most protesters in Iran won't go free, advocate says

Iran has jailed up to 20,000 people in months of protests against the regime. The announcement that it's pardoning prisoners is an empty gesture, a human rights lawyer says.

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Hackers say they blocked Iran president’s speech

Digital activists supporting anti-government protests in Iran said they hacked an online broadcast by state television of a speech by President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday marking the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Reuters

Iran marks revolution anniversary, hackers interrupt state TV coverage

The Islamic Republic marked the 44th anniversary of the Iranian revolution on Saturday with state-organised rallies, as anti-government hackers briefly interrupted a televised speech by President Ebrahim Raisi.

The Independent UK

Iran marks anniversary of Islamic Revolution amid protests

Iran is celebrating the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid nationwide anti-government protests and heightened tensions with the West

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Releases 7 Women Activists from Prison

Iran has released several prominent women activists and journalists from a prison in Tehran, campaigners said Thursday, with a video showing them defiantly chanting pro-protest slogans outside the jail, according to AFP. Media based outside Iran said a total of seven women were released, while Iran continues to press a…

Tribune News Service

Iran’s judiciary to ‘show clemency’ to some jailed protesters

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has agreed to either pardon or reduce sentences for some people arrested in a violent crackdown against nationwide anti-government protests, state TV said.

France 24

Iran admits 'tens of thousands' detained in protests, says will pardon some

Iran's supreme leader on Sunday reportedly ordered an amnesty or reduction in prison sentences for “tens of thousands” of people detained amid nationwide anti-government protests shaking the country, acknowledging for the first time the scale of the crackdown.

Daily Mirror

Hundreds spared the noose as Iran Ayatollah offers thousands of protesters amnesty

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed thousands will be pardoned or have their sentences dramatically reduced after four months of protests saw 522 Iranians killed

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