Category: iranian judiciary
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Pakistani Pilgrim Bus Crashes In Iran, Killing Three: Media
By AFP – Agence France Presse August 26, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article Text size At least three people have been killed and 48 others wounded when a bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims crashed into a truck in southern Iran, state media reported Monday. In recent days, Shiite Muslims have been heading to Iraq for a…
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Iran Executes Fortune Teller For Raping Clients Under “False Pretences”
Iran maintains death penalty for several crimes, including rape and sexual assault. (Representational) Tehran: Authorities in central Iran executed a male fortune-teller for raping and sexually assaulting his clients, the judiciary said on Wednesday. “A fortuneteller, who assaulted women and girls was executed in Yazd prison,” said Hossein Tahmasebi, chief justice of the central province,…
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Iran Executes Fortune-teller Over Rapes
By AFP – Agence France Presse August 21, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article Text size Authorities in central Iran executed a male fortune-teller for raping and sexually assaulting his clients, the judiciary said on Wednesday. “A fortuneteller, who assaulted women and girls was executed in Yazd prison,” said Hossein Tahmasebi, chief justice of the central…
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Iranian police close German Embassy school in latest row with Berlin
Iranian police closed a German Embassy-linked language school on Tuesday, forcing the cultural institute to halt operations, according to local reports. The move was widely seen as retaliation for Berlin’s July ban on the Hamburg Islamic Center and five other organizations around Germany. The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported that “two branches of illegal…
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22 July 2024 The IRGC confirmed that it had seized a Togo-flagged, UAE-bound tanker and detained its crew, asserting that the ship had been “systematically engaged in fuel smuggling”. View More 19 July 2024 Iranian authorities reported that one police officer had been killed and another injured in a “terrorist attack” in the south east.…
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Oil tanker seized by Iran moving to international waters, tracking data shows
Updated Jul 12, 2024, 01:11 AM Published Jul 12, 2024, 01:01 AM A Chevron-chartered oil tanker that was seized by Iran more than a year ago was heading for international waters on Thursday, LSEG ship tracking data showed. The Marshall Islands-flagged Advantage Sweet was boarded by Iran’s military in the Gulf of Oman in April…
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Iran Cracks Down On Social Media Accounts For ‘Discouraging’ Voting – Eurasia Review
Empty polling stations during the parliamentary elections in Iran. Photo Credit: PMOI By RFE RL (RFE/RL) — Iran has opened court cases against two Telegram accounts and summoned 100 people for allegedly calling for a boycott of the recent presidential election. Some 500 Instagram accounts were also found to have committed “election violations,” Iranian judiciary…
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An Iranian war criminal’s freedom has a detonating impact on the universal jurisdiction project
IranSource July 9, 2024 • 10:19 am ET Shadi Sadr Universal jurisdiction, a principle granting a state jurisdiction over crimes against international law even when those crimes occur outside its territory, is rapidly flourishing in law and in practice. In recent weeks, a new law in Germany has precluded the invocation of functional immunity in…
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How likely is a meaningful change in Iran’s economy under the new presidency?
Any change in Iran’s economic fortunes is tied to how successful the country’s new reformist president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian will be in easing the impact of strangling western sanctions, before getting them eventually lifted, and how quickly he brings rampant inflation under control, analysts said. Mr Pezeshkian, 69, was elected as Iran’s President after defeating hardline…
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Iran and Iraq Are Competing Over Leadership of Shiite Islam After Sistani – New Lines Magazine
Shortly after dawn on Feb. 22, 2006, explosions tore through the Askari Shrine, one of the holiest sites of Shiite Islam, in Samarra, Iraq. Al Qaeda was the culprit, and the attack seemed designed to spark communal violence at a time of grave insecurity in the country. In the aftermath of the bombings, anti-Sunni reprisals…