At least one person is killed and five others are missing as severe flooding, caused by heavy rainfall, ravages through towns and villages in Iran’s northwestern province of Ardebil.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says two of its staff members have been killed in an explosion at a military facility in the north-central province of Semnan.
The chief of Iranian Police Criminal Investigation Department for Saravan County, in Iran’s Sistan-and-Baluchestan Province and his wife have been shot dead by unknown assailants.
Residents in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad camp on the streets and in parks overnight, after a 4.6-magnitude earthquake shakes the city, the capital of Khorasan Razavi Province.
The man who shot and killed Ayatollah Abassali Soleimani, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, on Wednesday says he mistook the victim for someone else.
Ayatollah Abassali Soleimani, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts and Zahedan’s former Friday prayers imam, has been assassinated in Iran’s northern city of Babolsar, local officials say.
The death toll from road accidents during the two-week Nowruz (New Year) holidays in Iran has hit 1,168, higher than the previous year, according to an official.
An Iranian cargo ship goes to the rescue of 11 tourists aboard a vessel lacking safety that was sailing the waters off the country’s southern coast in the Persian Gulf region.
Iran’s Police Chief Brigadier General Ahmadreza Radan says car accidents have so far left 629 people dead amid an increase in road trips countrywide during Nowruz holidays.
Iran’s Police Chief Brigadier General Ahmadreza Radan says 470 people have so far lost their lives due to vehicle accidents amid a sharp rise in road trips countrywide during Nowruz holidays.
A traffic police official says 40 people are being killed on average each day in Iran during the Nowruz holidays. General Kamal Hadianfar said the number of Nowruz trips has increased by 11 percent compared to last year.
A senior Iranian traffic police official says 325 people have so far lost their lives in road accidents during New Year trips across Iran since mid-March.
A senior Iranian police official says so far 271 people have lost their lives during road accidents across Iran in the run-up to the New Year holidays.
The head of the Iranian Police Traffic Control Headquarters says 111 road crashes have happened in the first three days aheadof the Nowruz holidays in Iran that have claimed 125 lives. Brigadier General Seyyed Kamal Hadianfar said 2,895 people have also been injured.
An Iranian official says 27 people lost their lives in accidents prior to and during the Iranian festival of fire, an ancient tradition celebrated ahead of the Persian year, reporting a 14-percent rise in the number of injuries compared to last year.