Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Revolutionary Guards

Thursday briefing: Tehran faces a season of dissent - and the Bank of England acts in the UK

In today’s newsletter: Extraordinary protests have lit up Iran after a Kurdish woman died in police custody. Chowra Makaremi walks us through what it all means – and if this could be how the country’s theocracy ends

The Guardian - UK

Timeline: Iranian unrest leading up to Mahsa Amini's death in police custody

The death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police has infuriated Iranians who have taken to the streets to protest in at least 50 cities and towns nationwide, with police using force to disperse demonstrations.

Reuters

Factbox-Iran's Basij force: specialists in cracking down on dissent

Iranian security forces, including the pro-government Basij militia, are trying to quell growing nationwide protests that erupted after a woman died in the custody of the morality police last week.

Reuters

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards call on judiciary to prosecute those who spread "false news" over woman's death- statement

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards called on the judiciary to prosecute "those who spread false news and rumors", in a statement published on Thursday as tensions mount over the death of a woman in police custody.

Reuters

Khamenei Makes Public Appearance after Absence, Amid Heated Debate on His Successor

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made a public appearance after over a week of absence and participated in a religious ceremony with university students on Saturday. Khamenei's official website published his pictures during the ceremony, and state television showed him standing, addressing the attendees in a steady voice about the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran’s Khamenei Under Strict Medical Observation

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been under strict medical observation after having cancelling several meetings last week, reported the New York Times according to four people familiar with his health situation. Khamenei, 83, had surgery sometime last week for bowel obstruction after suffering extreme stomach pains and high fever,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran makes arrests in Guards commander killing blamed on Israel -judiciary

Iranian authorities have arrested several people over the assassination of a Revolutionary Guards colonel in May that Tehran has blamed on Israel and its Western allies, judiciary spokesman Masoud Setayeshi said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Iran Guards seize foreign ship in Gulf for smuggling diesel

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have seized a foreign vessel in the Gulf for allegedly smuggling 757,000 litres of diesel out of the country, the Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.

Reuters

Iranian Sites Cordoned off in Syria’s Hama after Israeli Raids

Iranian militias and Syrian regime security forces have cordoned off military sites used by the militias in western Hama and central Syria after they were targeted by Israeli raids on Thursday. The sites are the military camps of Sheikh Ghadban, al-Rasafa and Scientific Studies and Research Center near the Masyaf…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lapid: Nuclear Deal to Give Tehran $100Bln to Destabilize Region

A new nuclear deal between world powers and Iran would allow other nations to avoid sanctions and give Tehran $100 billion a year to destabilize the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Wednesday. “On the table right now is a bad deal. It would give Iran a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran gloats, America plots, but even a nuclear deal will not tame Tehran

As Khamenei crows over Rushdie, Biden seeks a revived pact. But make no mistake: this poisonous regime will always need its Great Satan

The Guardian - UK

U.S. charges Iranian with plotting to murder ex-Trump adviser Bolton

The United States charged a member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday with plotting to murder John Bolton, a national security adviser to former President Donald Trump.

Reuters

Iran and US Try to Salvage 2015 Nuclear Deal in Vienna

Iran and the United States held indirect talks in Vienna on Friday in a last ditch effort to reinstate a 2015 nuclear deal, Iranian state media reported. Few expect a breakthrough. Each side has called on the other to compromise, while Tehran's nuclear program surges forward. Reuters, citing one Iranian…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Renewed U.S.-Iran talks to salvage nuclear deal are 'serious' -Russian envoy

Russia's envoy to talks on reviving Iran's 2015 nuclear deal said on Friday they had resumed in a "serious" atmosphere even as few expect a breakthrough compromise while Tehran's disputed uranium enrichment programme surges forward.

Reuters

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat

IRGC Says it Neutralized Terrorist Cell, 4 of its Members Killed

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said its forces had neutralized a "terrorist cell" in Salmas near the Turkish border. The IRGC issued a statement announcing that its ground forces tasked with protecting the border triangle with Turkey and the Kurdistan region of Iraq "neutralized a terrorist cell after intelligence…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkey Convicts 14 Accused of Killing Iranian Dissident

A Turkish court handed down jail sentences to 14 accused of assassinating Iranian dissident Masoud Molavi-Vardanjani in Istanbul. Abdul Wahab Kocak, the main suspect, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Molavi -Vardanjani, who was shot dead in November 2019 in Sisli in Istanbul. Molavi-Vardanjani had a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran TV Says Several Foreigners, a UK Diplomat, Detained for Alleged Spying

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have detained several foreigners, including Britain's second most senior envoy in Tehran, for alleged acts of spying such as taking soil samples in restricted areas, state television reported on Wednesday. It did not elaborate on when they were arrested or whether they were still under arrest. Britain…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mystery Shrouds Iran’s Downplaying of Israeli Assassinations

A senior member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard colonel Sayyad Khodai was killed outside his home in Tehran on May 22 by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike. In Iran, thousands grieved for Khodai and held his funeral procession, where he was remembered as a hero for fighting ISIS. However, Israeli media…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel’s Spies Have Hit Iran Hard. In Tehran, Some Big Names Paid the Price.

For more than a decade, he was a feared presence in Iran, presiding over a vast intelligence apparatus.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Replaces Taeb as Head of Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Unit

Iran has dismissed the powerful chief of the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence unit, Hossein Taeb, Iranian state TV reported on Thursday, days after Israeli media accused him of being behind an alleged Iranian plot to kill or abduct Israeli tourists in Turkey. The station gave no reason for the change, but…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Man Aboard Plane Grounded in Argentina Linked to Iran's Quds Force, Says Paraguay

One of the men aboard a plane grounded near Buenos Aires has ties to Iran's Quds Force, Paraguay's intelligence chief said Friday, despite claims by Argentina that no evidence links the case to Tehran's overseas intelligence. Intelligence chief Esteban Aquino told AFP that Captain Gholamreza Ghasemi did not merely share…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel 'Concerned' over Iran Airlines 'Activities' in LatAm

The Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires said Thursday it was "concerned" over the activities in Latin America of two Iranian airlines and hailed Argentina's grounding last week of a plane with Iranian crew. The Boeing 747 cargo plane, reportedly carrying car parts, has been held at an Argentine airport since…

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Awaits ‘Constructive’ Response from Tehran on Nuclear Deal

The United States said on Tuesday it awaits a constructive response from Iran on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal without "extraneous" issues, a possible reference to Iran's demand its Revolutionary Guards be dropped from a US terrorism list. "We await a constructive response from the Iranians, a response that leaves…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Argentina Seizes Passports of Grounded Plane's Iranian Crew

Five Iranian crew of a cargo plane grounded in Argentina since last week have had their passports temporarily seized pending a probe into possible links to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, officials said Monday. A judge on Monday ordered their travel documents held for an additional 72 hours after Security Minister Anibal…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Reports Death of Another Revolutionary Guard Colonel

Iran reported the death of another colonel of the Quds force of its Revolutionary Guards on Friday, the second in two weeks from the unit which oversees Iran's military operations abroad. Quoting an unknown official, the early morning report by the official IRNA news agency said Col.

1 … 4 5 6 7

People

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Iran Revolutionary Guards

28 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.