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 ...
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With fighting raging around Khan Younis and in the north of Gaza, a video has emerged on social media showing dozens of Palestinian men detained by Israel./ The footage, verified by the BBC, shows them stripped to their underwear, kneeling on the ground and being guarded by Israeli soldiers./ ...
As Israel presses its military offensive across Gaza, the army has been repeatedly advising some two million civilians to move to a "humanitarian zone" smaller than London's Heathrow Airport./ Al-Mawasi is a narrow strip of land by the Mediterranean Sea. It has few buildings and largely consists ...
Video circulating on social media shows dozens of Palestinian men stripped to their underwear kneeling on the ground and being guarded by Israeli soldiers. The images are thought to have been filmed in the town of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. London-based news outlet The New Arab said one of ...
Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas/ DUBAI/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The armed wing of Hamas said on Friday it had repelled an attempted hostage rescue by Israeli special forces in the Gaza Strip, inflicting ...
Sportswashing claims 'very shallow' - Saudi minister Saudi Arabia's sports minister says claims of 'sportswashing' against the country are "very shallow", as he defended its right to host the men's football World Cup./ Speaking to the BBC in Jeddah, Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal said: "A ...
India's ambassador to Qatar has met eight former naval officers who have been sentenced to death in Qatar on unspecified charges./ An Indian foreign ministry spokesperson said that the diplomat met the men in prison on 3 December./ He added that a court in Qatar has held two hearings on against ...
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