Tasnim The criminals behind a recent mob attack that killed five Iranian security forces in north Tehran will be put on trial in coming days, the prosecutor general of Tehran said. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said the rioters arrested during the February 19 disturbance on Pasdaran Street in the capital will stand trial ...

ISNA l Alireza Sotakbar & Borna Ghasemi: Iranian mourners have held a funeral ceremony for the police forces who lost their lives in a recent wave of attacks by members of a Dervish cult in northern Tehran.  

Tasnim Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani praised the Law Enforcement forces for their prudence and restraint in dealing with a recent riot in northern Tehran, in which rioters killed five security forces. Speaking at an open session of the parliament on Thursday, Larijani offered his condolences over the martyrdom of security forces in an ...

Press TV- Iranian mournershave held a funeral ceremony for the police forces who lost their lives in a recent wave of attacks by members of a Dervish cult in northern Tehran. The funeral procession was held in the capital Tehran on Thursday with several Iranian officials, including Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli and Police Chief Brigadier ...

Al-Monitor- Irans moderate President Hassan Rouhani reacted Feb. 21 to the recent flaring of tensions between Gonabadi dervishes and security forces, saying he will not tolerate any violent behavior toward law enforcement officers. Clashes between dervishes and security forces in Tehran reached a climax Feb. 19, when a supporter of the Gonabadi order ...

IRNA Iran's Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei on Wednesday compared the crimes perpetrated by some protesters in Tehran on Monday night to those perpetrated by Daesh. Mohseni Ejei made the remarks in reaction to a street protest in a northern district of Tehran on Monday night in which five security forces were killed. The Iranian ...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani strongly condemned violent acts committed by any group, saying that his government won't tolerate this kind of behavior and insulting the police which protect security and order in society in any way. The president was addressing a cabinet session on Wednesday in which ministers of Interior and Intelligence presented ...

Tasnim The Iranian police forces managed to arrest 300 rioters in northern Tehran following intense clashes with members of the Gonabadi Dervishes, a Sufi community in Iran, which led to the killing of five security forces, the police spokesman said. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Brigadier General Saeed Montazer-al-Mahdi said the Law Enforcement ...

AP Irans semi-official Fars news agency says a supporter of a Sufi leader has rammed a bus into police, killing three of them before being arrested. The semi-official ILNA news agency quoted Mohsen Hamedani, a senior security official in Tehran, as saying a gunshot was heard in the area on Monday, without providing further details. Supporters ...

It started on March 1 when one jailed dervish -- blogger and rights activist Kasra Nouri -- went on hunger strike to protest what he described as the mistreatment of his fellow prisoners. Nouri was angered that two jailed members of the Nematollahi Gonabadi order of Sufis were not receiving proper health care. He then was joined by others. Sources ...