Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written message on Thursday that the United States has lost a war with the Islamic Republic because the Iranian leadership has rejected President Donald Trump’s warnings of a prolonged blockade. “Today, two months after the world’s hegemon’s largest military deployment and aggression in the region and […]
air ‘unbreathable’ Israel attacked five oil facilities in and around Tehran early Sunday, killing at least four people and sparking fires that filled the sky with acrid smoke. Tehran’s governor told IRNA news agency that fuel deliveries in the capital had been “temporarily disrupted”. A black smog hung over the city of 10 million people, […]
Born in the city of Mashhad in 1969, about 10 years before the Islamic Revolution that swept Iran in 1979, Khamenei grew up as his father campaigned against Iran’s Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. An official biography on the life of Ali Khamenei describes the moment when the Shah’s secret police, SAVAK, broke into his home […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday described the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the United States and Israel as a “reprehensible violation” of morality and law. Tehran has stood as one of Russia’s closest allies during Moscow’s Ukraine invasion and the Kremlin has previously called for restraint in the face of […]
Iran has been witnessing nationwide protests since late 2022, sparked by the custodial death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, who was arrested in Tehran for allegedly violating a strict dress code for women.Hundreds of people, including dozens of security personnel, were killed and thousands were arrested. Political expert Abbas Abdi told the reformist newspaper […]
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called for a “revolutionary reconstruction of the country’s cultural system” on Tuesday, state media reported, as nationwide protests kept the pressure on the authorities. During his meeting with a State Cultural Council, Khamenei said, “It is necessary to revolutionize the cultural structure of the country… The Supreme Council should […]
The group is tightly organized into a rigid hierarchy and demands that AFP journalists stick closely to an official schedule for travel. Within the PDKI, “we are free”, said 36-year-old activist Shounem Hamzi, who lives with her parents in KoĊĦinjak. Before the latest attacks, she lived in a PDKI camp about 500 meters (yards) from […]