The chairman of one of the most powerful institutions in Iran, the Assembly of Experts, has died. Iranian media reported on October 21 that Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani, 83, died of heart failure. He had fallen into a coma in June following a heart attack. President Hassan Rohani announced two days of mourning for Kani, a […]
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Head Of Iran’s Top Clerical Body Dies
The chairman of one of the most powerful institutions in Iran, the Assembly of Experts, has died. Iranian media reported on October 21 that Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani, 83, died of heart failure. He had fallen into a coma in June following a heart attack. President Hassan Rohani announced two days of mourning for Kani, a […]
Death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Colombian writer and Nobel laureate dies aged 87
Nobel prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died at the age of 87.The literary giant, considered to be one of the greatest Spanish-language authors of all time, had spent nine days in hospital with a lung and urinary tract infection this month. A source close to his family confirmed his death. He had […]
South Africa’s Nelson Mandela dies in Johannesburg
Nelson Mandela, the global statesman who delivered South Africa from the dark days of apartheid, has died aged 95. Mr Mandela had suffered from a series of lung infections over the past two years and died at home in the company of his family.South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has […]
Iran virtuoso violinist Homayoun Khorram dies at 82
Iran’s virtuoso violinist Homayoun Khorram has died of cancer at the age of 82 in a hospital in the capital city of Tehran.
Persian translator of German literature Jahed Jahanshahi dies at 66
The Iranian translator of German literature Jahed Jahanshahi has died of a cardiac failure at the age of 66.
Activists call for minister’s resignation as second student dies
Eighty Kurdish political and civil activists in Iran have called for the resignation of the Minister of Education after a fire accident in an elementary school injured scores of students and, according to reports, has so far claimed two lives.
Haemophiliac Iranian Boy ‘Dies After Sanctions Disrupt Medicine Supplies’
A teenage Iranian boy suffering from haemophilia has died due to a shortage of medicine in the country.
Young Prisoner Dies after Beating by Bandar Abbas Prison Forces
A local human rights source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that on August 22, two prisoners in the Youth Ward of the Bandar Abbas Central Prison, after engaging in a scuffle, were handcuffed, footcuffed, blindfolded, and severely beaten by Prison Special Forces in the yard behind the prison Quarantine […]
Modernist Iranian painter Mansureh Hosseini dies at 86
Mansureh Hosseini, a pioneer of Iranian modern art, has died at the age of 86. She was suffering from heart disease for the past few years.