TEHRAN: A member of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was shot dead during events falling on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death, state media reported Sunday.
Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died in police custody on September 16, 2022 following her arrest for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women.
Her death triggered months-long demonstrations which saw hundreds killed, including dozens of security personnel, in what Tehran labelled as “riots” fomented by foreign governments and “hostile media.”
“One person was martyred and three people were injured” on Saturday evening in a “blind shooting” by two unknown assailants toward Basij guards in the city of Nurabad in Southern Fars province, state news agency IRNA reported.
The news agency did not immediately elaborate on the assailants’ identity or the motivation for the shooting.
“The intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies of the province are trying to arrest the assailants” who fled after the shooting, it said.
The Revolutionary Guards meanwhile announced that a dual national was arrested over “attempts to organize riots and vandalism” in Karaj city west of the capital Tehran.
The Guards did not elaborate further on the suspect’s identity or other nationality.
On Saturday, authorities arrested several groups over accusations of “planning to create chaos” and producing content to serve “hostile media,” according to IRNA.
Many of the arrests were made in Amini’s home province of Kurdistan, as well as Iran’s northwest and south, the agency added.
Others were arrested in the northeastern province of North Khorasan for instigating “riots,” according to the Mehr news agency.
Authorities in the central city of Isfahan have “identified 97 people” and blocked 15 Instagram pages for attempting to stir up “public opinion” on the anniversary of the protests, IRNA said.
Iran guard fatally shot on anniversary of Mahsa Amini death: State media
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Iran guard fatally shot on anniversary of Mahsa Amini death: State media
- Mahsa Amini’s death triggered months-long demonstrations which saw hundreds killed, including dozens of security personnel
Israel strikes Islamist group’s HQ in Sidon, south Lebanon: state media
- “The Israeli enemy carried out an air raid a short while ago, targeting a headquarters of the Jamaa Islamiya,” state media said
- The strike almost entirely destroyed a seven-story building
BEIRUT: Israel struck a headquarters belonging to the Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, an ally of Hamas and Hezbollah, in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on Tuesday, state media reported.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air raid a short while ago, targeting a headquarters of the Jamaa Islamiya” in the coastal city, state media said.
Sidon was largely spared of major Israeli attacks during the last war between Israel and Hezbollah, which a November 2024 ceasefire sought to end.
The strike almost entirely destroyed a seven-story building, according to an AFP photographer, and ambulances rushed to the scene.
It caused a powerful blast in a densely populated area, as seen on local media.
The Israeli military then issued an evacuation warning for another building in Sidon, saying it will hit “Hezbollah military infrastructure... in light of its prohibited attempts to rebuild its activities in the area.”
The Jamaa Islamiya had previously been the target of Israeli strikes in Lebanon after claiming responsibility for rocket launches toward Israel during the war between Israel and Hezbollah that began in October 2023.
Last month, it accused Israel of seizing one of its officials from a town near the border.
The Israeli military said that it “apprehended a senior terrorist” in the group who was then “transferred for further questioning in Israeli territory.”
