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If Iran's Khamenei falls, what would replace him?
AFP, Published on 19/06/2025
» PARIS - Israel increasingly appears eager to oust the clerical leadership that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution but is taking a gamble given the Iranian opposition is divided and there is no guarantee new rulers would be any less hardline, analysts say.
Swedish court affirms life sentence for Iranian
AFP, Published on 19/12/2023
» STOCKHOLM - A Swedish appeals court on Tuesday confirmed the conviction of a former Iranian prison official handed a life sentence for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidents.
Iran accuses jailed Swedish EU diplomat of conspiring with Israel
AFP, Published on 10/12/2023
» TEHRAN - Iranian authorities have accused a Swedish EU diplomat, held in a Tehran prison for more than 600 days, of conspiring with Iran's arch-enemy Israel, the judiciary said Sunday.
Iranian opposition in exile feels heat in Europe
AFP, Published on 27/06/2023
» PARIS: A controversial exiled Iranian opposition group is coming under increased pressure in Europe as it nervously eyes the intensification of European talks with Tehran in search of reviving a deal on the Islamic republic's nuclear drive.
Iranian ex-official ordered executions in 1988: Swedish prosecutors
AFP, Published on 11/08/2021
» STOCKHOLM - A former Iranian prison official handed out death sentences as part of a 1988 purge of political dissidents, Swedish prosecutors said on the first day of a landmark case likely to stoke tensions in the Islamic republic.
Trial over Iran 1988 mass murder begins in Sweden
AFP, Published on 10/08/2021
» STOCKHOLM: An Iranian official accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents goes on trial in Sweden on Tuesday in a landmark case likely to stoke tensions in the Islamic republic.
Unravelling Iran's nuclear 'threshold' game
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/07/2020
» 'A glance at the history of nuclear weapons manufacture shows that all 11 countries that wished to build bombs did so within three to 10 years," wrote Yossi Melman, intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for Israel's Haaretz newspaper, on Sunday. So why, he asked, has Iran failed to do so after more than 30 years of trying?
Insurgents up the ante
News, Published on 20/01/2019
» The recent spike in violence in the far South was driven by the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN)'s determination to demonstrate its capacity under its new leadership, according to a source from the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) Region 4.
Fresh talks a step to douse far South fires
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 05/01/2019
» Despite a spate of attacks rattling the restive far South over the past few weeks, the chief negotiator of peace talks in the region, Gen Udomchai Thammasaroraj, remains hopeful.
Belgium charges two over attack plot on Iran opposition in France
AFP, Published on 02/07/2018
» BRUSSELS - Belgium on Monday charged a husband and wife over a plot to bomb a weekend rally by an exiled Iranian opposition group in France where close Donald Trump ally Rudy Giuliani was in attendance.