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US-Israel attack on Iran: Former Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei to be buried in his hometown, Mashhad

Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint US-Israel strike, with his burial planned for Mashhad. The assassination marks a significant escalation, with US President Trump calling it justice and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu noting signs of his demise.

The Times of India

Years of absolute rule: Who was Ali Khamenei and how did he come to power in Iran?

The most powerful man in Iran was killed on Saturday in US and Israeli air strikes on Tehran and his death leaves a power vaccum in the country. But how did Ali Khamenei rise to power and what is his legacy?

Euronews

Mourners gather in Mashhad after death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei

Mourners assembled at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad after Iranian state media confirmed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli airstrike.

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'Death to the dictator': Month after deadly crackdown, protests flare up in Iran again - Watch

Video footage circulating online shows hundreds of students marching through university campuses in Tehran and Mashhad on Saturday, more than 40 days after a deadly crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran. The rallies, described as the largest student demonstrations since the violence last month, took place at Sharif University of…

The Times of India

Iran warns US troops and Israel will be targets if America strikes over protests as death toll rises

Protests challenging Iran’s theocracy have reached the two-week mark, with demonstrators flooding the streets in Tehran and Mashhad

The Independent UK

Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi arrested in Iran

Mohammadi ‘violently’ detained along with other activists at memorial event in Mashhad, her foundation says

The Guardian - UK

Do all Iranians hate the regime? Hate America? Life inside the country is more complex than that

From 2015 to 2018, I spent 15 months doing research work in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. As an anthropologist, I was interested in everyday life in Iran outside the capital Tehran. I was also interested in understanding whether the ambitions of the 1979 Revolution lived on among “ordinary” Iranians, not…

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Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1939, as the second son of a local religious leader, Javad Khamenei, and he grew up in relative poverty.

The Conversation

Relieved Pakistanis Recall 'Horrifying Nights' As Israel, Iran Trade Strikes

Mohammad Hassan anxiously returned to Pakistan from neighbouring Iran this week after witnessing drones, missiles, and explosions tear through Tehran's sky during what he called long, "horrifying nights".

International Business Times

How Iran’s leaders are using the ‘martyrdom’ of President Raisi as part of the election campaign

Thousands of Iranians came out on the streets to mark the funeral processions of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran, Mashhad, and Tabriz, after he died in a helicopter crash alongside the foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian. During these processions, huge banners were put up naming Raisi as “the martyr of…

The Conversation

Iran’s Khamenei leads prayers at Raisi memorial before tens of thousands

Late president’s body will be taken from Tehran to his hometown Mashhad, where he will be buried.

Al Jazeera

Iranian President Raisi's Body To Be Transferred To Mashhad

Iranian President Raisi and other victims of a helicopter crash to be honored in Tabriz before being transferred to Mashhad for burial.

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Irishman Bernard Phelan - who was going blind in hellhole Iranian prison - released on 'humanitarian grounds'

The 64-year-old dual Irish/French national spent almost 200 days in a prison in north-east Iran after his arrest in Mashhad in October 2022 while on a trip.

Irish Mirror

Saudi officials arrive in Iran to discuss reopening diplomatic missions

Saudi officials have arrived in Iran to discuss procedures for reopening Riyadh's embassy in Tehran and consulate in Mashhad after China brokered a deal to restore relations between the two regional powers, the Saudi foreign ministry said on Saturday.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi Officials Arrive in Iran to Discuss Reopening Diplomatic Missions

Saudi officials have arrived in Iran to discuss procedures for reopening Riyadh's embassy in Tehran and consulate in Mashhad after China brokered a deal to restore relations between the two countries, the Saudi foreign ministry said on Saturday. The meeting also follows up on discussions between Saudi Foreign Minister Prince…

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Raisi Says Hijab Is the Law in Iran as Unveiled Women Face ‘Yogurt Attack’

President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab was the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yogurt at two unveiled women in a shop near the northeastern city of Mashhad. Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their veils after nationwide protests…

Radio France Internationale

Iran jails ill Irish-French national for six-and-a-half years on spying charges

Iran has sentenced an Irish-French citizen to six-and-a-half years in jail. Bernard Phelan has been held since his arrest in October in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sister: Health of French-Irish Citizen in Iran Failing

The health of Bernard Phelan, a French-Irish prisoner in Iran who last month suspended a dry hunger strike, is deteriorating, his sister told AFP on Tuesday. Phelan, a Paris-based travel consultant, was arrested in October while travelling and is being held in Mashhad in northeastern Iran. His eyesight has started…

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Paris: Franco-Irish Citizen Held in Iran Must be Freed Immediately

Bernard Phelan, a Franco-Irish citizen detained in Iran, must be released immediately and provided access to urgent medical care, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said on Thursday. "The denial of medical access by Iranian authorities is unacceptable", Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anne-Claire Legendre told journalists, adding France was very concerned about…

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Iran Probes Sexual Assault Allegations on Teens

Iran's sports minister has ordered a probe into allegations of sexual assault targeting teenagers at a football academy in the country's northeast, state media reported Saturday. "A former media manager for the Shahr Khodro football team has claimed on social media that the parents of 15 players from this club…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ireland, France Coordinate to Free Dual National Jailed in Iran

Authorities in Dublin are working closely with France to free Bernard Phelan, an Irish-French national, who was jailed in Iran in October, Ireland’s foreign ministry confirmed on Friday. Phelan, a Paris-based tourism consultant, is being held in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad city on multiple charges, including disseminating anti-regime propaganda and…

Boston Herald

Movie review: ‘Holy Spider’ weaves gripping tale of serial killer

Is murdering prostitutes in modern-day Iran the work of God? It is if you are the madman and religious fanatic carrying out a reign of serial-killer terror in the gripping and horrifying “Holy Spider” in the early 21-century city of Mashhad, the second most populous city in Iran and the…

Daily Mirror

Second Iranian executed over alleged crime of protesting against the regime

An Iranian protestor was publicly hanged on Monday in the city of Mashhad, less than a week after the first protestor was executed marking a brutal crackdown in the country

Los Angeles Times

Review: The serial killer thriller ‘Holy Spider’ gets stuck in its own morally murky web

On April 8, 2002, Saeed Hanaei was executed for the murders of 16 women between 2000 and 2001 in the Iranian city of Mashhad. The media dubbed him the “Spider Killer” for the way he lured his victims into his lair — the same apartment he shared with his unsuspecting…

The Guardian - UK

‘This generation is really brave’: Iranians on the protests over Mahsa Amini’s death

Four people describe the widespread protests marking 40 days since Amini’s death in custody

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