Iran hangs dual British-Iranian citizen on suspicion of espionage and corruption. He allegedly gave information to foreign officials about 178 Iranian individuals. Britain’s prime minister said he was “appalled” by the execution. Iran hung a dual British-Iranian citizen Alireza Akbari on suspicions of espionage and corruption on Saturday, according to a state-affiliated media outlet. This … Read more
The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards accused “Zionists” of assassinating a colonel earlier this month in Tehran, according to the Guards’ official website. Colonel Sayyad Khodai, 50, was fatally shot outside his home in Tehran’s east on May 22 by assailants on motorcycles. According to official media, he was shot five times. According to an … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of bombing an Israeli ship in the Gulf of Oman last week, a charge Tehran has denied the allegations. According to reports, between Thursday and Friday night, the MV Helios Ray cargo ship was hit by an explosion above the water line, while US officials said that … Read more
A one-ton automated weapon was used in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh near Tehran in November last year. The weapon was smuggled into Iran through the Israeli intelligence agency (Mossad). This was confirmed by intelligence sources on Wednesday. The sources told the British newspaper “The Jewish Chronicle” that Mohsin Fakhrizada underwent Reiki … Read more
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has blamed Israel for killing the country’s nuclear scientist, saying Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was targeted in the last days of US President Donald Trump’s tenure. According to the details, Hassan Rouhani claimed in a press conference in Tehran that Israel was behind the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the scientist who founded the … Read more
Pakistan has strongly condemned the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and urged Iran to exercise restraint and avoid tensions. Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Hafeez Chaudhry, while giving a weekly briefing, said that a two-day meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was held in Niamey, Niger, in which … Read more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has condemned the heinous killing of a top Iranian nuclear scientist that Tehran has blamed on Israel. It urges all parties to exercise restraint. “The UAE condemns assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and [calls] on all parties to exercise self-restraint to avoid dragging [the] region into new levels of instability and threat to … Read more
Iran has promised to take revenge for the killing of its most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was murdered on Friday. Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Maj Gen Hossein Salami, said the “assassination of nuclear scientists is the most obvious violation of the global hegemony to prevent our access to modern sciences”. Fakhrizadeh … Read more
