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OpenAI removes online influence operations based in Russia, China, Iran, and Israel, due to the usage of AI by these operations to generate propaganda and fake content.
2024-05-30

A Revolutionary Court in Tehran, Iran, sentences Olivier Vandecasteele, a Belgian aid worker to a minimum of 12 and a half years in prison and 74 lashes on espionage charges.
2023-01-10

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran imposes sanctions on 61 Americans for their association with exiled Iranian dissident group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
2022-07-16

Iran reports a record 50,228 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4,517,243.
2021-08-17

Iran reports that a blackout at its underground Natanz nuclear facility is an act of nuclear terrorism and says that they reserve the right to respond, but it does not specify who was responsible or how they would respond. Parts of the electrical grid at Iran's main nuclear facilities at Natanz have been compromised. Intelligence sources claim in Israeli media that the Mossad intelligence agency carried out a cyber attack on the facility.
2021-04-11

Iraqi President Barham Salih rejects the nomination of Basra governor Asaad Al Eidani for Prime Minister of Iraq, stating that protesters will also oppose him due to his connections with Iranian-backed parties. As the constitution doesn't give him the power to officially veto candidates, Salih threatens to resign instead.
2019-12-26

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu blames Iran for the explosion.
2012-07-18

Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr is sentenced to 90 lashes of the cane and a year's jail in Tehran for appearing in the film "My Tehran For Sale" which criticises the Government of Iran's harsh policies on the arts.
2011-10-10

The Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, publicly accuses President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of being "under a spell", amid a deepening political crisis in the country.
2011-05-15

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva lands in Israel at the start of his Middle East tour of Palestine and Jordan before his visit to Iran.
2010-03-14