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Who is Alireza Arafi? Iran’s new interim Ayatollah
A day after the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran, on Sunday, March 1, announced Alireza Arafi as the interim Ayatollah to its supreme council. The 67-year-old Shia cleric, a…
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Iran unveils new underground missile base amid tensions with US
Tehran: Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a new underground missile base amid tensions with the United States, according to local media reports. The base was unveiled during a visit…
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EU moves to sanction Iran’s Revolutionary Guard over protest crackdown
Brussels: The European Union appeared poised Thursday, January 29, to sanction Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard over Tehran’s deadly crackdown on nationwide protests, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as it worries over a…
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General Ahmad Vahidi appointed new deputy commander of Iran’s IRGC
Tehran: Major General Ahmad Vahidi has been appointed as the new Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iranian media reported on…
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Commander of Palestine corps in IRGC’s overseas arm killed, Israel claims
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Saturday,June 21, that Saeed Izadi, commander of the Palestinian Corps in Iran’s Quds Force, was killed in an overnight strike on an apartment in the…
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Iran’s IRGC unveils new underground missile base: Report
Tehran: Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a new underground missile base, local media reported. Footage broadcast by state-run IRIB TV on Friday night showed the facility, described as a…
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FBI thwarts Iranian plot to assassinate Trump; 3 individuals charged
Washington: The FBI thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said on Friday as it charged an Iranian national and arrested two American citizens for involvement in…
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Iran elite army hired by Israel’s Mossad to eliminate Haniyeh: Reports
Tel Aviv: After the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, there are reports that the Israel intelligence agency, Mossad, used the services of its Iranian agents.As per reports in Hebrew…
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Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran, confirms IRGC
Tehran: Hamas Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in an attack in Iran’s capital, Tehran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Wednesday, Press TV reported. In a statement to…
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Iran condemns Canada’s blacklisting of IRGC
Tehran: Iranian Caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has condemned the Canadian government’s “provocative and irresponsible” decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist entity”. He made the…
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Canada declares Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ‘terrorist entity’
Ottawa: Canada has declared Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, as a “terrorist entity”. Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced on Wednesday afternoon, saying…
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Israel seeks terror tag for Iran‘s Revolutionary Guard Corps
Tel Aviv: After thwarting a major Iranian attack on its soil, the Israeli government wants the world to recognise Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terror outfit. The IRGC is directly…
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IRGC member, two others killed in Israeli strike in Syria
A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who was working as a military advisor, Reza Zarei, along with two members of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group was killed in an Israeli…
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2 IRGC members killed by Israeli strike in Syria
Two members of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an alleged Israeli attack on the Sayyida Zeinab neighbourhood in Syria on Saturday, December 2. In a statement, the…
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US conducts airstrike in Syria on facility used by Iran’s IRGC
Washington: The United States has conducted a self-defense airstrike in eastern Syria against a facility used by the Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups, the White House said Thursday. The…
