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Iran's Interim Ruler VP Mohammad Mokhber, a Pure Product of Islamic Republic

par Malo Pinatel, 20/05 08:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A prominent and influential figure in Iranian politics today, Mohammad Mokhber has held the position of First Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran since August 2021. Following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, he replaces the latter, according to the Iranian constitution. IRGC officer Born into a clerical family on May 11, 1955, ...

US-Sanctioned Ex-IRGC Commander Announces Presidential Bid

par This Is Beirut, 01/06 19:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A former commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards who is under US sanctions registered his candidacy on Saturday for next month's presidential election, state media reported. Like other hopefuls, Vahid Haghanian will have to wait to see if his candidacy is approved by the Guardian Council, a 12-strong body of jurists dominated by conservatives ...

Iranian Adviser Killed in Israeli Strike on Syria

par This Is Beirut, 03/06 21:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iranian media said that an adviser was killed in an early Monday Israeli strike on Syria's northern city of Aleppo, which a war monitor said killed 16 members of pro-Iran groups. “During last night's attack by the Zionist regime on Aleppo, Saeed Abyar, one of the IRGC advisers in Syria, was martyred,” said Iran's Tasnim news agency, referring ...

Canada Declares Iran's Revolutionary Guards a Terrorist Group

par This Is Beirut, 19/06 22:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Ottawa, on Wednesday, listed Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist entity, while calling on Canadians in the Islamic country to leave. "Our government has made the decision to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code," Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told a news conference. Flanked by ...

Three Pro-Iran Fighters Killed in Eastern Syria Strike

par This Is Beirut, 22/06 18:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A war monitor on Saturday said three pro-Iran fighters, including at least two Iraqis, were killed in an overnight air strike in eastern Syria near the Iraq border. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strike occurred in Deir Ezzor province. Iran wields significant influence in the area, which is regularly targeted by Israel, ...

France Expels Iranian Suspected of Influence Peddling for Tehran

par This Is Beirut, 03/07 16:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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France on Wednesday expelled an Iranian suspected of influence peddling on behalf of the Islamic Republic and having links to the Revolutionary Guards ideological Army, his lawyer and a source close to the issue told AFP. Bashir Biazar had been held in administrative detention since the start of June and was subject to a deportation order from ...

Haniyeh Killed by a “Short-Range Projectile”, According to IRGC

par This Is Beirut, 03/08 14:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Saturday that Israel killed Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh using a "short-range projectile" launched from outside of his accommodation in Tehran. "This terrorist operation was carried out by firing a short-range projectile with a warhead of about seven kilograms -- causing a strong explosion -- from outside ...

IRGC Colonel Dies After US-Led Coalition Strike in Syria

par This Is Beirut, 15/08 16:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday said one of its colonels has died of wounds suffered in an air strike it blamed on the US-led coalition in Syria. Ahmadreza Afshari of the IRGC's "aerospace advisory forces" in Syria was "martyred because of injuries caused by aerial bombardment", Guards' chief Hossein Salami said in a ...

Iran Pledges that IRGC General Killed in Israeli Strike in Beirut "Will Not Go Unanswered"

par This Is Beirut, 29/09 16:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that the death of a senior Iranian general, killed alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli strike on Beirut "will not go unanswered.” Araghchi's remarks came two days after Friday’s strike on Iran-backed Hezbollah's bastion in the Lebanese capital that killed General Abbas ...

Israel Eliminates Hassan Nasrallah's Son-in-Law in Airstrike on Damascus

par This Is Beirut, 02/10 20:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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In an airstrike on Wednesday, Israel killed Hassan Jaafar Kassir, son-in-law of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Three people were killed in the Damascus strike, a monitor said, on a neighborhood that is home to security headquarters and embassies. "An Israeli air strike targeted a flat in a residential building in the Mazzeh neighborhood ...

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