Meta has suspended the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei due to what the company calls “repeated violations” of its “dangerous organizations and individuals policy.” Khamenei in the past has referred to Israel and Zionism as “an obvious plague for the world of Islam.” In 2020, Khamenei referred to Israel as a “cancerous tumor” that “will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed.” In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 assault, Khamenei wrote on X: “God …
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The US military on Monday, January 3 shot down two armed drones as they headed toward a facility housing US advisers at the same airport where US drones killed Iranian General Qassemi Soleimani two years ago following Donald Trump’s orders. In Monday’s attack, the drones were shot down by the C-RAM defence system that protects American installations in Iraq, and there were no reports of damage or injuries from the incident. No group has claimed responsibility for the …
An Iran court on Tuesday, June 30, sentenced ex-opposition leader Ruhollah Zam to death. Ruhollah Zam, who was accused of fueling anti-government protests, was arrested and indicted over corruption charges, after his return from exile in France in 2019 . The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the arrest of Zam in October last year. “The court has considered 13 counts of charges together as instances of corruption on earth and therefore passed the death sentence,” judiciary spokesman …
Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining US President Donald Trump and dozens of others over the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad. Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday, June 29, that Trump and more than 30 others who Iran accuses of involvement in the January 3 strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani face “murder and terrorism charges”, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported. Apart from Trump’s …
An Iranian national convicted of spying for the US and Israel by helping target top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani will be executed soon, Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday. Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was convicted of spying on Iran’s armed forces “especially the Quds Force and on the whereabouts and movements of martyr General Qassem Soleimani” for large sums of money from both Israel’s Mossad and the CIA, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told a televised news conference. His sentence was upheld …
Women fans will be allowed into the stadium for IRAN next football World Cup qualifier in October, a sports ministry official said Sunday, ahead of a deadline to allow their attendance. FIFA has been stepping up pressure on IRAN to ensure women are allowed to attend qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, reportedly giving it until Saturday to comply or else face consequences. An official at the sports ministry said on Sunday that women would be able to watch Team …