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US seeks to keep Yemen-bound ammunition seized from Iran
•The United States is seeking to keep more than 1 million rounds of ammunition the U.S. Navy seized in December as it was in transit from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to militant groups in Yemen
Canada imposes new sanctions against Iran
•Canada's latest round of sanctions against Iran, the 10th since October, targets individuals including senior officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Law Enforcement Forces (LEF) for "gross and systematic human rights violations" in Tehran and northwestern Iran
Iran: 2 protesters hanged for killing paramilitary soldier
Fp Staff •Two men were executed in Iran on Saturday after being found guilty of killing a paramilitary officer during protests sparked by the death in custody of a young woman
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praises force tasked with quashing anti-regime protests
•Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed members of the Basij, the volunteer paramilitary wing of the elite Revolutionary Guard, and reiterated unsupported claims that protesters demonstrating countrywide are “tools” of the U.S. and its “mercenaries”
In Iran, school kids begin knocking off turbans of Islamic clerics amid spiralling anti-regime protests
Fp Staff •Across Iran, particularly in Tehran, thousands have taken to the streets protesting the death of the young Kurdish woman soon after she was taken into custody by Iran’s morality police. She died on 16 September, 3 days after her arrest for breaching the country’s rigid Islamic dress code for women
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seize two Greek tankers in Persian Gulf as tensions rise
•The seizure seemed to be in retaliation for Greece's assistance in the US seizure of crude oil from an Iranian-flagged tanker this week, in the Mediterranean Sea, over violating Washington's crushing sanctions on Iran
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard builds new support ship to expand naval presence
•The construction of the Shahid Mahdavi provides the Guard a large, floating base from which to run the small fast boats that largely make up its fleet
Irananian Revolutionary Guard Commander takes 'full responsibility' for accidentally shooting down Ukranian passenger plane
•An Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander says his unit accepts “full responsibility” for the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane.
US-Iran tensions: Commercial airlines reroute flights crossing West Asia to avoid danger amid escalating conflict
•Commercial airlines on Wednesday rerouted flights crossing the West Asia to avoid possible danger amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran.
Iran launches retaliation against killing of Gen Qassem Soleimani by attacking US' Al Asad Air Base in Iraq
•Iran attacked a US base in western Iraq early Wednesday, Iranian official news media and US officials said, the start of what Iran had promised would be retaliation for the killing of a top Revolutionary Guards commander