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Iran death toll reportedly over 5k, Trump says US ‘armada’ closes in
Dubai: The death toll from Iran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests reached at least 5,002 people killed Friday, January 23 activists said, warning many more still were feared dead as the most-comprehensive…
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Iran: Min issues most direct threat yet to US amid crackdown on protests
Iran’s foreign minister issued the most direct threat yet on Wednesday, January 21, against the United States after Tehran’s bloody crackdown on protesters, warning the Islamic Republic will be “firing back with…
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Iran warns Trump not to take action against Khamenei
Dubai: Iran on Tuesday warned Donald Trump not to take any action against the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, days after the US president called for an end to Khamenei’s nearly…
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Trump says US will wipe out Iran if it assassinates him
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the US will wipe out Iran if the country assassinates him. “I have very firm instructions — anything happens, they’re going to wipe them off the…
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Crackdown on demonstrators in Iran protests killed at least 4029, activists say
Dubai: A crackdown on demonstrators taking part in nationwide protests in Iran killed at least 4,029 people, activists said Tuesday, January 20. The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency offered the toll,…
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Analysts warn that Iran crisis carries potential nuclear risks
Vienna: In the wake of spiralling tensions between the United States and Iran over Tehran’s violent crackdown on protests, analysts warn that the internal upheaval affecting the Iranian theocracy could carry nuclear…
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Jews have debt to free Iran, says Arab influencer, draws flak
Egyptian influencer Loay Al Shareef has drawn flak for saying that Jewish people have a “debt” to free Iran from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s hold, echoing a line often claimed by…
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Iran state TV hacked to broadcast exiled prince
Dubai: Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country’s exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not “point your weapons at the people,” footage online…
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Iranian President warns strikes on Khamenei would lead to ‘all-out war’
Tehran: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that any attack on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would be considered a declaration of “all-out war” against the Iranian nation, following a sharp exchange of rhetoric…
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Iran: Ayatollah Khamenie calls Trump criminal for backing protests
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday branded US President Donald Trump a “criminal” for supporting protesters in Iran, and blamed demonstrators for causing thousands of deaths. In a speech broadcast…
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Several Indians return from protest-hit Iran in commercial flights
New Delhi: Poignant scenes of relief and reunion unfolded at the Delhi airport on early Saturday, January 17, as families embraced their loved ones who returned from Iran amid the worsening security…
- Middle East
Ayatollah calls Trump ‘criminal’, blames demonstrators for deaths
Dubai: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday branded US President Donald Trump a “criminal” for supporting protesters in Iran, and blamed demonstrators for causing thousands of deaths. In a speech…
- Middle East
2026 Iran protest: Family searches corpses, buries daughter roadside
Beirut: Robina Aminian’s family believes the college student was killed by a bullet fired by Iranian security forces at close range, straight into the back of her head. But her death in…
- Middle East
Iran sees no new protests as cleric urges executions, threatens Trump
Dubai: As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly…
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Thank you, Trump tells Iran for halting execution of political prisoners
Washington: President Donald Trump took the unusual step on Friday, January 16, of thanking the Iranian government for not following through on executions of what he said were meant to be hundreds…
