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Iran's guards chief threatens protesters - 'today is the last day of riots'

Following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police, Iran erupted into protest - one of the boldest challenged to the clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution

Daily Mirror

Analysis-Iran crackdown may burnish Raisi's credentials for top job

By tightening curbs on women's rights, President Ebrahim Raisi has boosted his hardline credentials and possibly his prospects of becoming Iran's Supreme Leader, even at the cost of provoking mass protests and driving a wedge between many Iranians and the ruling elite, three analysts and a pro-reform official said.

Reuters

Bristol schoolboy shares experience as Britain's first Black royal Guardsman

From Cotham School to Changing the Guard, Richard Stokes endured horrific racism

Bristol Post

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Ireland has accepted 'stark' domestic violence figures for too long, says Justice Minister Helen McEntee

Helen McEntee gave a run-through of her strategy to combat gender-based violence on Thursday

Irish Mirror

Factbox-Ethnic groups swept up in Iran's nationwide protests

Protests in Iran have swept all parts of the nation since Mahsa Amini's death in police custody, including areas home to ethnic minorities with long-standing grievances against the state.

Reuters

Braced to crush unrest, Iran's rulers heed lessons of Shah's fall - analysts

Iran's clerical rulers will likely contain the country's eruption of unrest for now, and prospects of the imminent dawn of a new political order are slim if history is any guide, four analysts said.

Reuters

Events in Iran since Mahsa Amini's arrest and death in custody

Iran's clerical rulers have faced the biggest protests in years since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died last month while in the custody of the morality police who enforce the Islamic Republic's strict dress code.

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Iran Guards launch artillery attack on militants in Iraqi Kurdistan

Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched an artillery attack on anti-Iranian militant bases in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq on Saturday, Iranian state television reported.

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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

Good Morning Britain's Ben Shephard blown away by 'exquisite' heroics of Queen's coffin bearers

Good Morning Britain presenter Ben Shephard took a moment to praise the Grenadier Guards who carried the Queen's coffin

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Young Scots sailor to guard Queen at funeral like grandfather did at her coronation

Murray Kerr, 20, has been receiving guidance from his grandfather, now 92, after he guarded the Queen at her coronation in 1953.

Daily Record

The historical significance of lying-in-state and what it meant to the late Queen

The late Elizabeth II was a nervous nine-year-old when she was taken to Westminster Hall to pay her respects to her beloved grandfather George V. Here, Matthew Dennison, her biographer, recalls a poignant moment and reflects on what the tradition means now

Evening Standard

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

Iran Guards Seize ‘Foreign’ Ship in Gulf for Smuggling Diesel

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have seized a foreign vessel in the Gulf for allegedly smuggling 757,000 liters of diesel out of the country, the Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. The unnamed vessel's seven crew members, who are foreign nationals, have been handed over to legal authorities, IRNA reported…

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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.

Daily Mirror

Grenadier Guards put on 6 hours' notice to get haircuts as troops get 'slip-proof' boots

Plans are now in place for 17 days of mourning after the Queen tragically died yesterday - details of her funeral will be announced in due course as Charles becomes King making his first address to the nation as the new reigning monarch at 6pm tonight

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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…

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Iran Nuclear Negotiations Resume, Breakthrough Unlikely

Indirect talks between Tehran and Washington resumed in Vienna with a meeting between Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and the EU's Enrique Mora, who coordinates the talks aimed at salvaging a 2015 nuclear deal, Iranian state media reported on Thursday. Both Tehran and Washington have played down the prospect of a…

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Victorious Ukraine flies its flag again from blitzed Snake Island after Russians flee

Guards chief Arut Papoian said: “Snake island has always been Ukrainian and always will be. No temporary occupation will change that. Our battalion was the first to visit after liberation"

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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…

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IRGC Says Won’t Allow its Ranks to be Infiltrated

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will not allow the entry of "virus and termites" into the military institution, asserted the deputy of the Supreme Leader's representative, Hossein Tayyebifar. Tayyebifar, the IRGC's deputy for clerical affairs, said the IRGC should train forces who will not hesitate to pull the trigger.…

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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.

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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…

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Bombs Dropped By Drone Makes Russian Troops Scamper

This aerial footage purports to show Ukrainian tactical drones dropping bombs on Russian targets, injuring soldiers and setting military vehicles alight.

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…

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