DENMARK — Swedish authorities accused Iran on Tuesday of being responsible for thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of Islam’s holy book in 2023. Officials in Stockholm claimed that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard carried out “a data breach” and managed to send […]
TEHRAN — An explosion at a mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 51 people and injured 20, Iranian state television reported, adding that several workers were still trapped. The blast took place due to a methane gas leak at a coal mine run by the Madanjoo company in Tabas, some 540km (335 miles) […]
NEW DELHI — India on Monday strongly reacted to remarks by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the “suffering” of the Muslim community in the south Asian country, along with in Gaza and Myanmar. “We strongly deplore the comments made regarding minorities in India by the Supreme Leader of Iran. These are misinformed and […]
TEHRAN — Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned from his new post as Iranian vice president for strategic affairs and head of the Center for Strategic Studies, just 10 days after his appointment. In a post on social media platform X on Sunday night, he said he was “not satisfied with the result of his work” […]
BEIRUT — Hezbollah said it launched rockets at northern Israel Thursday “in response” to a deadly Israeli strike in south Lebanon — the group’s first attack after Israel killed a top commander earlier this week. The Iran-backed group said in a statement that it “launched dozens of Katyusha rockets… in response to the Israeli enemy’s […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Wednesday the killing of Hamas’s political leader in an air strike in neighbouring Iran blamed on Israel was a “reckless act”, while hundreds of supporters of an Islamist party held a symbolic funeral near Islamabad. Describing the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh as “terrorism”, Islamabad’s foreign ministry said in a statement that […]
NEW DELHI — Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist and former Health Minister of Iran, on Saturday, won the 14th presidential election by beating his rival, Saeed Jalili, local media reported. Masoud Pezeshkian got 16,384,402 of the total 30,573,931 votes in the runoff, reports Iran International News. The voter turnout, however, stood at 49.8 per cent, relatively […]
TEHRAN — The General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces has released the first report on the causes of a recent helicopter crash that resulted in the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage. Following the crash, a senior investigation committee composed of experts, specialists, and technicians arrived at the scene on Monday morning, […]
NEW DELHI (KIMS) — As a mark of respect, India on Tuesday observed one-day of state mourning across the country for Iran’s President and Foreign Minister who died in a helicopter crash. Dr. Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and […]
DUBAI — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and others were found dead Monday hours after their helicopter crashed in a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63. The crash comes as the Middle East remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war, during which Raisi under Supreme Leader […]