Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday backed the gasoline price rises that have caused nationwide protests, which he blamed on the Islamic Republic’s opponents and foreign foes. “Some people are no doubt worried by this decision ... but sabotage and arson is done by hooligans not our people,” ...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s support of a gas price increase signals a potential crackdown on demonstrations./ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, in Tehran on Sunday. He blamed counter-revolutionaries and foreign enemies for the protests./ TEHRAN, Iran — The supreme leader of Iran, ...
city of Sirjan Saturday amid violent protests following the announcement that it would raise gas prices by 50 percent to fund handouts for the country's poor./ Protestors flocked to the streets in more than a dozen cities after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced the price increase at ...
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Iranian protesters block a road during a demonstration in the central city of Shiraz./ Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazil has said security forces will take action against those protesting against a ...
This photo released by the Iranian Students’ News Agency, ISNA, shows cars drive past a scorched public bus that remained on the street after protests that followed authorities’ decision to raise gasoline prices, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme ...
The protests put renewed pressure on Iran’s government as it struggles to overcome the U.S. sanctions./ DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Protesters angered by Iran’s 50 percent increase of government-set gasoline prices blocked traffic in major cities and occasionally clashed with the police on ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Cars could be seen queuing at a petrol station in Tehran on Friday Protests have erupted across Iran after the government unexpectedly announced it was rationing petrol and increasing its price, state media report. The authorities have ...
The timing of the announcement suggested an urgent scramble to fill a budget gap caused partly by severe American sanctions./ The authorities in Iran abruptly raised gasoline prices as much as 300 percent early Friday and imposed a strict rationing system, some of the most severe steps taken to ...
One person was killed in the Iranian city of Sirjan during protests that erupted after President Hassan Rouhani’s government imposed gasoline rationing and price hikes of at least 50 percent, Iranian ISNA news agency reported on Saturday./ People protest against increased gas price, on a highway ...
Protests increase pressure on Iran’s government, which is struggling to overcome U.S. sanctions/ Protests erupted across Iran after the government said it was raising gasoline prices by 50%. Demonstrators blocked traffic in major cities and clashed with police Saturday after a night of ...
ISNA/ DUBAI (Reuters) - One person was killed in the Iranian city of Sirjan during protests that erupted after President Hassan Rouhani’s government imposed gasoline rationing and price hikes of at least 50 percent, Iranian ISNA news agency reported on Saturday. “One person was killed in Sirjan ...
old Zain Tafesh died from leukemia earlier this week/ In different wards of Nasser Hospital lie two 10-year-old boys, one shot by Israeli fire and paralysed from the neck down, another with a brain tumour. Now that a fragile ceasefire is in place, they are among some 15,000 patients who the ...
Michael Smuss, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland who resisted the Nazis, has died aged 99 in Israel. He joined the ghetto uprising as a teenager in 1943, helping to make petrol bombs. Taken prisoner, he survived concentration camps and a death march before the end of World War II. After ...
Marco Rubio warned of "bumps in the road" but said the US is committed to making the peace plan work/ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said "a lot of countries" have offered to be part of an international security force for Gaza - a key part of President Donald Trump's peace plan - but ...
The bodies of the dead Palestinians were transferred by the Red Cross in refrigerated lorries/ Out of a single room, with no DNA testing facilities or cold storage units of its own, the forensics team at Gaza's Nasser hospital face the challenges brought by peace. Over the past eleven days, 195 ...
An Israeli annexation of West Bank would threaten peace deal/ US Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have criticised a move by Israel's parliament towards annexation of the occupied West Bank. On Wednesday, far-right politicians in the Knesset took the symbolic step of ...
The Israeli military is exerting control over more of Gaza than expected from the ceasefire deal with Hamas, a BBC Verify analysis has found. Under the first stage of the deal, Israel agreed to retreat to a boundary running along the north, south and east of Gaza. The divide was marked by a ...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said Israel is obliged to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip by the United Nations and its entities to ensure the basic needs of the Palestinian civilians are met. also said Israel had not substantiated its allegations that ...
Gaza health crisis will last 'for generations', says WHO chief/ Gaza is experiencing a health "catastrophe" that will last for "generations to come", the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a ...
Arie Zalmanowicz and Tamir Adar's bodies were returned by Hamas on Tuesday night/ Israel's military says the bodies of two hostages returned by Hamas on Tuesday have been identified as Arie Zalmanowicz and Master Sgt (res) Tamir Adar. Zalmanowicz , 85, was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir ...
The Israeli military has begun to mark out the withdrawal line with yellow blocks/ Under Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, the "yellow line" - which Israel withdrew to earlier this month - is the first of three stages of Israeli military withdrawal. It leaves it in control of about 53% of the ...