Tehran articles
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Liam Neeson Joins Zachary Levi Action-Thriller ‘Hotel Tehran’
Liam Neeson is checking into “Hotel Tehran.” The Oscar-nominee turned on-screen avenging angel is joining the previously announced Zachary Levi in the new action-thriller from Guy Moshe. Cameras will start rolling in late summer. The rest of the ensemble will be cast in the coming weeks. “I’m thrilled to welcome Liam Neeson to ‘Hotel Tehran,'” Moshe […]
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Power struggle: Iranian president's death to spark internal political battle in Tehran
Iran’s supreme leader moved Monday to temporarily shore up the country’s leadership after the sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi a day earlier, while analysts said that there is likely to be a behind-the-scenes struggle in Tehran to fill the unexpected power vacuum.
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'Butcher of Tehran' dead but Raisi's legacy continues as Iran appoints acting president
JERUSALEM - The late President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, was a known quantity to the U.S. government because of his massacres of Iranian citizens. The Trump administration sanctioned Raisi for his role in carrying out the massacre of 5,000 Iranian political prisoners in 1988 and for his role in the clerical regime’s slaughter of 1,500 Iranian demonstrators in 2019. Raisi boasted about his role on a death panel in the late 1980s, when...