DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Basij militia forces sacrificed their lives in "riots" sparked by the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish ...
The BBC's Martin Patience says Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered a "defiant message" Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defended the country's armed forces after it admitted shooting ...
Iran is holding two sets of elections on March ... Given that the current holder of that office, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is 84 years old, it is likely that the new assembly will name his successor ...
His story gives an insight into the make-up and the ideology of the hard-line groups that are cracking down on demonstrators in Iran. "None of them are police. Most of them are Basij or Ansar-e ...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks to the media after ... ZUMAPRESS.com Friday’s sham elections for Iran’s Parliament and Assembly of Experts sent a shot heard ’round ...
As Ali Khamenei grows older, and no clear favourite to replace the 84-year-old as Iran’s supreme leader emerges, speculation has increased around a possible succession by his son Mojtaba.
The Quds Base in the southeast of the country in Sistan and Baluchestan announced that a local Basij force by the name of Othman Shah Bakhsh was martyred when he was shot by armed criminals in Kourin ...
Iran, wary of wider war, urges its proxies to avoid provoking U.S. Khamenei and his loyalists ... with hundreds killed by security forces and thousands detained. Numerous activists and civil ...
In the same speech at a meeting in the Khuzestan province of Iran, on the southern ... Regarding the Palestinians in Gaza, Khamenei said: “The resistance forces’ standing and the enemy ...
Iran’s anti-government uprising has been marked by cycles of killing and mourning. As the deaths pile up, funerals and commemorations have become their own form of protest, as well as another ...
The Quds Base in the southeast of the country in Sistan and Baluchestan announced that a local Basij force by the name of Othman Shah Bakhsh was martyred when he was shot by armed criminals in Kourin ...