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Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who famously inspired Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film The Terminal, died inside the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, CNN reports. The Iranian refugee, who lived in the French airport from 1988 until he was hospitalized in 2006, was pronounced dead on Saturday, Nov. 12 at the age of 76, per Le Monde. According to an airport […]
An Iranian 94-year-old nicknamed the “world’s dirtiest man” for famously not bathing since the middle of the 20th century has died. The BBC writes Amou Haji passed away on Sunday in Dezhgah village, which is located in the southern province of Fars. The local community called him “Uncle Haji.” Out of fear of contracting an illness, he hadn’t cleaned himself with soap […]
A missile barrage went off close to a U.S. consulate complex in Irbil, Iraq, with Iran later taking responsibility for the incident. The Associated Press reports that Iran said the attack was retaliation for an Israeli strike that happened near Damascus, Syria, which led to the deaths of two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. No […]
Iranian software programmers are facing backlash over a newly launched video game centered on the police-killing of George Floyd. According to The Sun, the game—titled Save the Freedom—was developed by the Basij Resistance Force, a volunteer organization operating under the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Paris-based journalist Séamus Malekafzali said the game consists of 30 levels in which a player must overcome […]
The United States carried out a military airstrike in eastern Syria on Thursday, targeting facilities that were allegedly used by Iranian-backed militia. Defense officials say the move, which is believed to be the Biden administration’s first military action, was in response to multiple rocket attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq this month. One of those attacks is said to have left one civilian […]
A number of American service members have traumatic brain injuries from Iranian airstrikes in Iraq, in direct contrast to President Donald Trump’s dismissal of the extent of the injuries earlier this week. The Department of Defense revealed that 34 American troops have traumatic brain injuries, according to the New York Times. Eight of the afflicted […]
A Boeing 737-800 jet that was on its way to Kyiv, Ukraine from Tehran, Iran has crashed. The passenger plane, which was operated by Ukrainian International Airlines and went down just after 6:20 a.m. local time, had 180 passengers, CNBC reported citing Iran’s Fars News Agency. The flight took off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International and was experiencing technical issues, local media reported. […]
Tehran has fired “tens of ground-to-ground” missiles at Iraqi airbases that house U.S. troops, Iran state media reported Tuesday. The attacks occurred just days after American forces carried out an airstrike that killed Iran’s top military commander Qassem Soleimani. Shortly after the airstrike, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed “forceful revenge” against the U.S. for Soleimani’s death. “This morning, […]
As tensions between the United States and Iran continue to escalate, dozens of Iranians and Iranian-Americans have been detained at the Canadian border. As the New York Times reports, dozens of people were reportedly held for hours at the Washington state border to Canada. America’s Department of Homeland Security recently increased security at border ports across the country […]
Since Manifest Destiny, America has been focused on conquering lands. To Colin Kaepernick, the killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is just another example of the country showcasing its thirst for imperialism. On Saturday, Kaepernick took to Twitter to claim that America subjects black and brown people to terrorism so that it can keep “policing and plundering” […]
