Iran

While state-controlled television broadcast images of lines of voters, others across the capital of Tehran saw largely empty polling stations.

Some 15,000 candidates are vying for a seat in the 290-member parliament, formally known as the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

Details were scarce, though the blasts hit a natural gas pipeline running from Iran's western Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province up north to cities on the Caspian Sea.

Thousands of Iranians marched through major streets and squares decorated with flags, balloons and banners with revolutionary and religious slogans.

With its weaponry and financial backing, Iran became the ideological guardian of this growing “axis” of groups across the Middle East.

He also said that Iran and Pakistan have agreed to take further actions as soon as possible when it comes to border security and fighting terrorism, besides expanding trade and economic cooperation.

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Roya Heshmati was arrested in April "for publishing a photo on social media without wearing a headscarf," her lawyer Maziar Tatai told the reformist Shargh daily.

The attack is the deadliest in Iran since 1978, when arson killed more than 370 people trapped in a cinema in Abadan, in the country's southwest, according to AFP archives.

The top commander of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard linked the attack to the U.S. The gathered crowd shouted: "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!"

The blasts on Wednesday ripped through a crowd commemorating Revolutionary Guards general Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a 2020 US strike in Baghdad.