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Protesters chant slogans and hold up posters of Gen. Qassem Soleimani during a demonstration in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. A candlelight ceremony late Saturday in Tehran turned into a protest, with hundreds of people chanting against the country's leaders — including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — and police dispersing them with tear gas. Police briefly detained the British ambassador to Iran, Rob Macaire, who said he went to the...

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Protests erupt in Iran over plane downing

by Joseph Krauss Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressJanuary 12, 2020

A rescue worker searches the scene where an Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. A Ukrainian airplane carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Tehran's main airport, killing all onboard. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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Ukrainian airplane crashes near Iran’s capital, killing 176

by Mohammad Nasiri Associated Press, Nasser Karimi Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressJanuary 8, 2020

FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2018, file photo, members of the military wait outside facilities where President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are visiting at Ain al-Asad air base, Iraq. Iran said Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, it has launched "tens" of surface-to-surface missiles at Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base housing U.S. troops over America’s killing of a top Iranian general. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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Iran strikes US troops at Iraqi bases

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, Amir Vahdat Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressJanuary 7, 2020

Mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike on Friday, in the city of Kerman, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. The leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatened on Tuesday to "set ablaze" places supported by the United States over the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. airstrike last week, sparking cries from the crowd of supporters of "Death to Israel!" Tasnim News Agency via AP

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Stampede kills 40 at funeral for Iran general

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, Amir Vahdat Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressJanuary 7, 2020

This Monday, Jan. 6, 2020 satellite photo from Maxar Technologies shows Azadi Tower in Tehran, Iran, amid a mass processional for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad. The funeral for Soleimani drew a crowd said by police to be in the millions in the Iranian capital, filling thoroughfares and side streets as far as the eye could see. Although there was no independent estimate, aerial footage and Associated Press journalists suggested a...

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Iranian leader weeps for slain general

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressJanuary 6, 2020

Coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others who were killed in Iraq by a U.S. drone strike, are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during a funeral procession, in the city of Mashhad, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. Soleimani’s death Friday in Iraq further heightens tensions between Tehran and Washington after months of trading attacks and threats that put the wider Middle East on edge.

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Iran supreme leader weeps for general killed by US airstrike

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, and Jon Gambrell Associated PressJanuary 6, 2020

Coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others who were killed in Iraq by a U.S. drone strike, are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during a funeral procession, in the city of Mashhad, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. Soleimani's death Friday in Iraq further heightens tensions between Tehran and Washington after months of trading attacks and threats that put the wider Middle East on edge. (Mohammad Hossein Thaghi/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

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Iran abandons nuclear limits

by Nasser Karimi Associated Press, Jon Gambrell Associated Press, and Zeina Karam Associated PressJanuary 5, 2020

President Donald Trump meets French President Emmanuel Macron at Winfield House, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in London. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

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Iran acknowledges it killed ‘rioters’

by Jon Gambrell Associated PressDecember 3, 2019

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with members of the Revolutionary Guard’s Basij force in Tehran, Wednesday.

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Supreme leader: Protests a US-backed ‘conspiracy’

by Jon Gambrell Associated PressNovember 27, 2019

A breakdown, by city and province, of the 106 deaths reported so far to Amnesty International.;

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Amnesty says at least 106 killed in Iran protests

by Jon Gambrell Associated PressNovember 19, 2019