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Iran reports drone attack on defence facility
This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran. (AP Photo)
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U.S. charges three in Iran-backed effort to assassinate journalist
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. The Justice Department has charged three men in a plot to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses in Iran, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Fatal shooting at Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran raises tensions
The building of the Azerbaijan Embassy is seen in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle stormed the Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran's capital Friday, killing the head of security at the diplomatic post and wounding two guards, authorities said. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Iran imposes sanctions on dozens of European individuals and entities over criticism of protest crackdown
FILE PHOTO: An Iranian flag flutters in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
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EU imposes new Iran sanctions, won’t label Revolutionary Guard as ‘terrorist organization’ for now
FILE PHOTO: Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attend an IRGC ground forces military drill in the Aras area, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, October 17, 2022. IRGC/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
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Jailed Iranian-American appeals to Biden, starts hunger strike
FILE PHOTO: Iranian-American consultant Siamak Namazi (R) is pictured with his father Baquer Namazi in this undated family handout picture. TO MATCH SPECIAL REPORT USA-IRAN/STUDENT Handout/via REUTERS/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE.
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Iran hangs former defence ministry official over spy claim, escalating tensions with West
In this photo released by KhabarOnline News Agency on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, Ali Reza Akbari speaks in an interview, Iran. Iran has sentenced Akbari, a former senior defense official, to death after convicting him on charges of spying for Britain, Tasnim news agency, a state-linked media reported on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (KhabarOnline News Agency via AP)
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A trip across Iran reveals all that can’t be grasped at a distance. The real Iran lies its ambiguities
Pico Iyer
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Iran media claims British-Iranian facing execution had links to scientist killing
FILE PHOTO: Alireza Akbari, Iran's former deputy defence minister, speaks during an interview with Khabaronline in Tehran, Iran, in this undated picture obtained on January 12, 2023. Khabaronline/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
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Canada can do more to help Iran’s imprisoned protesters
Ratna Omidvar and Julie Miville-Dechêne
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Iran sentences former deputy minister with U.K. nationality to death for spying
FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag is seen flying over Evin prison in Tehran, Iran October 17, 2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
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Canada sanctions Iranian entities and officials, citing misinformation
Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly attends the second day of the meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest, Romania on Nov. 30, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Andreea Alexandru
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Iran sentences three more protesters to death amid international criticism
A view of the courtroom during the hearing before Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini and Mohammad-Mehdi Karami are executed by hanging for allegedly killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, in Tehran, Iran December, 2022 in this still image obtained from a video by WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY
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Families of Flight 752 victims vow to hold Iran accountable as they mark third anniversary of attack
People attend a vigil marking the three year anniversary of the downing of flight PS752, in Toronto on Sunday, January 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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German police detain Iranian on suspicion of planning chemical attack
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Iran executes two more men detained amid nationwide protests
FILE PHOTO: A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 19, 2022. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
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Iran closes French research institute over Charlie Hebdo cartoons
The building of "Institut Français de Recherche en Iran" or French Institute for Research in Iran, is pictured in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Iranian authorities ordered closure of the institute on Thursday over the publication of offensive caricatures of the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. (AP Photo)
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Iran releases prominent actress who protested executions
Iranian prominent actress Taraneh Alidoosti, center, holds bunches of flowers as she poses for a photo among her friends after being released from Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Iran released Alidoosti, a prominent actress from an Oscar-winning film, nearly three weeks after she was jailed for criticizing a crackdown on anti-government protests. (Gisoo Faghfouri, Sharghdaily, via AP)
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Taliban seeks economic self-sufficiency and foreign investment for Afghanistan
An Afghan man walks past the office of a foreign aid group 'Care' in downtown Kabul on December 26, 2022. - Several foreign aid groups announced on December 25 they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country's Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop women staff from working. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iranian chess player warned not to return to Iran after competing without hijab, source says
Chess - FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2022 - Blitz Women - Almaty, Kazakhstan - December 30, 2022. Sara Khadem of Iran sits in front of a chess board during a game. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev
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If Iran’s current regime ends, don’t expect democracy to take its place
Peter Jones
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Iran top court accepts protester’s appeal against death sentence
Iranians take part in a pro-government rally in the central city of Hamedan, on December 30, 2022. (Photo by Amirhossein NAZARI / TASNIM NEWS / AFP) (Photo by AMIRHOSSEIN NAZARI/TASNIM NEWS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Marchers denounce Iran’s supreme leader in renewed protests in country’s southeast
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of students in Tehran, Iran November 2, 2022. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo/File Photo
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Democracy is not on the brink. In fact, 2022 might turn out to have been the twilight of autocracy
Ira Wells
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Iran holds military drill near strategic Strait of Hormuz
In this picture released by the official website of the Iranian Army on Friday, Dec. 30, 2022, navy troops move forward at coast in an annual drill in the coastal area of the Gulf of Oman and near the strategic Strait of Hormuz. (Iranian Army via AP)
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Canada, allies launch process to hold Iran legally accountable for downing Ukrainian flight PS752
Mehrzad Zarei marches during a demonstration in Ottawa on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. Zarei is the father of one of the 176 passengers killed onboard a Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 crash and marched from Richmond Hill, Ont., to downtown Ottawa in hopes that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with the families of victims. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Elon Musk says around 100 Starlinks now active in Iran
FILE PHOTO: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off, carrying 53 Starlink internet satellites, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. May 18, 2022. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
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Iran reroutes plane carrying soccer star’s wife, blames U.K. over unrest
FILE PHOTO: People light a fire during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 21, 2022. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards arrest seven people linked to U.K. over protests
FILE - In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police last month, in Tehran, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Multiple Iraqi officials have told The Associated Press that Baghdad-mediated talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia have come to a halt. They say this is largely because of Tehran's claims that Saudi Arabia has played a role in alleged foreign incitement of mass anti-government protests that erupted in September in Iran. (AP Photo/Middle East Images, File)
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Iran Supreme Court accepts rapper Yasin’s appeal against death sentence
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 19, 2022. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo/File Photo
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Prominent Sunni cleric denounces Iran crackdown, currency near record low
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For the women of Iran, history shows us there’s no turning back now
Golnaz Fakhari
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U.S. slaps sanctions on Iran officials over protest crackdown
FILE - In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police last month, in Tehran, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Multiple Iraqi officials have told The Associated Press that Baghdad-mediated talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia have come to a halt. They say this is largely because of Tehran's claims that Saudi Arabia has played a role in alleged foreign incitement of mass anti-government protests that erupted in September in Iran. (AP Photo/Middle East Images, File)
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Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti arrested after expressing solidarity with man executed during protests
FILE - Taraneh Alidoosti poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Leila's Brothers' at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Iranian authorities arrested Alidoosti, one of the country’s most famous actresses on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests that grip the country, state media said Saturday, Dec. 17. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)
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UN council ousts Iran from UN commission backing women
An Iranian woman holds a portrait of the late Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack in 2020, in a pro-government demonstration in front of the United Nation's office in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. The demonstrators condemned calls for the Islamic Republic to be expelled from the UN Commission on the Status of Women by other member countries, following Iranian security forces' continued crackdown on anti-government protests sparked by the death of a women after she was arrested by the country's morality police in September. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Second Iranian detainee executed over alleged protest crime
BERLIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 12: Portraits of Majid Reza Rahnavard, 23, and Mohsen Shekari, 23, both of whom were recently executed by Iranian authorities, stand on a table among candles during a demonstration by supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran outside the German Foreign Ministry on December 12, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Iranian authorities said Rahnavard was executed by hanging earlier today as punishment for killing two Iranian security members during recent street riots. Popular protests have been ongoing in Iran since the September death of Mahsa Amini. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)