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Ismail Haniyeh (pictured), the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated in Tehran, Iran. Landslides in Wayanad, India, kill more than 180 people. In Gaelic football, the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship concludes with Armagh defeating Galway in the final. Typhoon Gaemi leaves more than 70 people dead in the Philippines, China, Taiwan ...
See detainees for notable cases. Civil unrest and protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini ( Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but were said to have "dwindled" [15] or "died down" [16] by spring of 2023. As of ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran officially recognises Palestine as a state. Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, rejects a two-state solution and implies that Palestine is inseparable, while Iran's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for a free referendum for the entire Palestinian population, including Arab citizens of Israel, to determine the type of government in the future ...
Internet Filtering Committee (Iran) heade by Prosecutor-General of Iran decides which websites must be censored and implements this vast censorship. In response to the 2019 Iranian protests, the government implemented a near-total Internet shutdown, reducing traffic to just 5% of normal levels.
Death to America. Iranian protesters burning the flag of the United States along with a US Dollar in Tehran, November 2018. Death to America [a] is an anti-American political slogan widely used in North Korea (as Death to the United States imperialists [b] ), [1] [2] Iran, [3] Afghanistan, [4] Lebanon, [5] Yemen, [6] Iraq, [7] [8] and Pakistan.
2024 Iranian presidential election. Early presidential elections in Iran were held on 28 June and 5 July 2024 [1] following the death of incumbent president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on 19 May. [2] Four candidates contested the first round of the election, in which Masoud Pezeshkian won 44%, Saeed Jalili won 40%, Mohammad Bagher ...
One of the largest protests was organized by United For Iran and held on 25 July 2009 in over 100 cities all over the world. [211] Although the 2009 Iranian presidential election was widely disputed, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent a traditional congratulatory message [212] to Ahmadinejad upon his inauguration.
731 banks and 140 government sites torched (per Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli) [12] The 2019–2020 Iranian protests, sometimes known as Bloody November or (using the Iranian calendar) Bloody Aban ( Persian: آبان خونین ), were a series of nationwide civil protests in Iran that took place in 2019 and 2020. Initially caused by a 50–200% ...