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# Iran

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2022
Iran sentences 'boxing champion' to death over protests
The news comes just over a year after the execution of wrestling champion Navid Afkari.
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Jan 17th 2022, 5:56 PM
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10 Iran military personnel on trial over downed Ukraine jet
Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed shortly after take-off from Iran’s capital Tehran in January 2020, killing all 176 people aboard.
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Nov 21st 2021, 5:05 PM
Richard Ratcliffe on day 20 of hunger strike over wife’s detention in Iran
A vigil is planned for this evening outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London where Ratcliffe is camping.
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Nov 12th 2021, 8:18 AM
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband ‘looking and feeling rougher’ on 16th day of hunger strike
Richard Ratcliffe began the protest to put pressure on Boris Johnson to meet the Iranian delegate at Cop26.
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Nov 8th 2021, 10:16 AM
Opinion: Cyber piracy has hurt Ireland this year - but we can affect change internationally
Ireland must use its voice at the UN Security Council to counter rogue states’ cyber attacks, writes Sir Ivor Roberts.
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Oct 9th 2021, 8:00 AM
Iran's ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi elected president
Raisi won just shy of 62% of the vote, on a voter turnout of 48.8% a record low in the Islamic republic.
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Jun 19th 2021, 2:24 PM
Iranians vote in presidential election tipped in favour of hard-liner
Ebrahim Raisi is the front-runner in a field of just four candidates.
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Jun 18th 2021, 11:21 AM
US says unclear Iran ready for nuclear pact return
A fifth round of talks are talking place in Vienna on rescuing the deal.
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May 23rd 2021, 6:20 PM
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to be released as UK pays Iran £400m debt - report
Iranian state TV said deals have been reached to release prisoners with Western ties held in Iran.
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May 2nd 2021, 3:26 PM
Israel believed to be behind cyberattack on Iranian nuclear plant
Iran said yesterday that the site was hit by a terrorist act.
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Apr 12th 2021, 8:36 AM
Iran’s nuclear facility struck by 'suspicious' blackout
It is the latest incident to strike the site.
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Apr 11th 2021, 3:13 PM
Iran releases seized South Korean oil tanker ahead of nuclear deal talks
The MT Hankuk Chemi, held in Iran since January, sailed away from an Iranian port city early this morning.
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Apr 9th 2021, 9:10 AM
Footage of Irish MEPs in Iraq used in YouTube video promoting a militia group
The European Parliament said the trip by Mick Wallace and Clare Daly does not represent the parliament.
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Apr 8th 2021, 4:32 PM
British-Iranian dual citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe back in Iran court on 'propaganda' charges
Zaghari-Ratcliffe finished serving a five-year sentence last week.
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Mar 14th 2021, 1:45 PM
Coveney holds 'intensive and productive' talks with President Hassan Rouhani in Iran
Ireland-Iran bilateral relations were also discussed in advance of the re-opening of an Irish diplomatic presence in Tehran.
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Mar 7th 2021, 6:25 PM
Iran’s treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe condemned as 'cruel' as 5-year-sentence ends
The 42-year-old has completed a near five-year sentence but must appear before a court in a week.
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Mar 7th 2021, 3:10 PM
Nuclear deal on agenda as Coveney travels to Iran to meet with President Rouhani
Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney will also meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.
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Mar 6th 2021, 7:44 AM
Five-year-long detainment of British woman in Iran 'blot on British diplomacy', husband says
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s sentence is scheduled to end this weekend.
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Mar 3rd 2021, 7:31 AM
US bombs sites in Syria used by Iran-backed militia
The airstrike was the first military action undertaken by the Biden administration.
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Feb 26th 2021, 7:10 AM
Firefighters battle huge blaze at Afghanistan-Iran border
More than 500 lorries lined up at the border carrying natural gas and fuel were ablaze.
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Feb 14th 2021, 12:55 PM
Iran ‘may pursue nuclear weapon if sanctions persist’
A 1990s fatwa, or religious edict, by the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei states that nuclear weapons are forbidden.
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Feb 9th 2021, 12:14 PM
Iran reveals plans to ramp up uranium enrichment far beyond levels permitted in 2015 deal
It is not yet clear when this process will begin.
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Jan 2nd 2021, 8:01 AM
Iran court to retry three sentenced to death over protests
Numerous calls had spread online after the verdict was announced calling for a halt to the executions.
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Dec 5th 2020, 1:00 PM
Iran claims Israel used 'electronic device' to remotely kill military nuclear scientist
The comments came at the funeral for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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Nov 30th 2020, 11:03 AM
UN calls for restraint as Iran accuses Israel of killing top nuclear scientist
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh died in a shootout on Friday.
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Nov 28th 2020, 6:52 PM
Top nuclear scientist was 'assassinated', says Iran's defence minister
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh died in hospital from wounds suffered during an attack by “armed terrorists”, the country’s defence ministry said.
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Nov 27th 2020, 3:56 PM
Academic detained in Iran for two years returns to Australia
Kylie Moore-Gilbert was freed this week after 804 days behind bars.
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Nov 27th 2020, 9:38 AM
Trump asked aides about striking Iran nuke site in coming weeks: report
According to the New York Times, senior officials “dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike”.
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Nov 17th 2020, 7:40 AM
Iran urges next US administration to learn from sanctions
Trump has applied a “maximum pressure” policy against Iran since 2018.
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Nov 7th 2020, 12:32 PM
Iran says US faces 'maximum isolation' as world powers dismiss sanctions
Security council members say Washington lost the legal ability to invoke the measure after the US withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal.
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Sep 20th 2020, 3:20 PM
'I really can't take it anymore', Zaghari-Ratcliffe says after Iran trial postponed at short notice
The British-Iranian national has been detained in Iran since 2016 when she was sentenced to five years in prison.
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Sep 13th 2020, 4:34 PM
Iranian wrestler executed for murder, despite global calls for his release
US President Donald Trump had tried to save Navid Afkari’s life, arguing that his “sole act was an anti-government demonstration”.
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Sep 12th 2020, 2:27 PM
Israeli airstrike in Syria kills five Iran-backed paramilitary fighters
A UK-based war monitor said that 11 other combatants were wounded.
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Jul 21st 2020, 9:34 AM
British woman jailed in Iran 'on the cusp of good news' over possible clemency
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport in 2016.
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May 26th 2020, 10:53 AM
'An agonising wait': Decision on Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release from prison delayed again
The British-Iranian mother has been temporarily freed from Evin Prison in Tehran in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Apr 19th 2020, 3:32 PM
'The debris was just around me...it was targeted at me as I was a woman on the pitch'
In 2001, a handful of Irish women made history by becoming the first to attend a football match in Iran in more than 20 years. They tell their story to The42.
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Mar 29th 2020, 8:00 AM
US launches air strikes against Iran-backed militia after Iraq base attack
A US official said multiple strikes targeted Kataib Hezbollah weapons facilities inside Iraq.
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Mar 13th 2020, 10:38 AM
Covid-19: 42 new cases confirmed in UK, as Pope Francis to hold Sunday prayer by livestream
In Greece, a row has erupted over whether to cancel Holy Communion, while China has just 99 new confirmed cases of Covid-19.
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Mar 7th 2020, 3:12 PM
Public Health Emergency Team to meet to 'advance Covid-19 preparedness plans for Ireland'
Three people have died in Italy, which is experiencing Europe’s first major outbreak of the virus.
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Feb 24th 2020, 9:47 AM
Senate approves limiting power of Donald Trump to attack Iran
The bi-partisan vote was a rare exertion of authority from Congress.
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Feb 14th 2020, 7:06 AM
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