Latest news with #NorthwestIran
LBCI
21-06-2025
- Politics
- LBCI
Four Revolutionary Guards fighters killed in northwest Iran: Media
Four fighters from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in an Israeli attack on a training center in northwest Iran, the ISNA news agency reported. "Four people have died as martyrs and three others were wounded in an Israeli attack against a training camp of the Revolutionary Guards in Tabriz," ISNA reported. The city has been repeatedly targeted since Israel began striking Iran more than a week ago. AFP
Al Arabiya
14-06-2025
- Al Arabiya
Iran Red Crescent says Israeli strike hits ambulance, killing two
The Iranian Red Crescent and local media reported on Saturday that an Israeli strike hit an ambulance in the country's northwest, killing two people. Tasnim news agency reported an explosion at a barracks in the city of Urmia, adding 'rescuers and ambulances heading towards the barracks came under direct attack from Israel', leaving two people dead. The Red Crescent confirmed the information in a brief statement of its own.
CTV News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Iran executes a man convicted over the 2023 attack on the Azerbaijan Embassy that killed 1 person
This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran. (AP Photo) TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Wednesday executed a man who carried out a 2023 attack on the Azerbaijan Embassy in Tehran, killing its security chief and wounding two others in an incident that escalated tensions between the neighboring nations, state media reported. The state-run IRNA news agency reported the unidentified man's execution, without offering details, after his conviction. Typically, Iran hangs its condemned. Iran had called the January 2023 attack a personal dispute after the gunman's wife 'disappeared' on a visit to the embassy, but Azeri President Ilham Aliyev called it a 'terrorist attack.' Baku accused Tehran of supporting hard-line Islamists who tried to overthrow its government, a charge Tehran denied. Following the attack, the embassy was closed and its staff left the country. In April 2023, Azerbaijan expelled four Iranian diplomats. A month later, Iran expelled four Azeri diplomats. Azerbaijan reopened its embassy in a different location in July 2024. Azerbaijan borders Iran's northwest and was part of the Persian Empire until the early 19th century. There are also over 12 million ethnic Azeris in Iran who represent the Islamic Republic's largest minority group. Azerbaijan's diplomatic ties with Israel long have been a point of contention. The Associated Press
