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- 2 June 2024 – Syrian civil war
- Israeli airstrikes in the Aleppo region kill 20 Iranian-backed militia members, including 16 Syrian militiamen, an Iranian advisor, and three Hezbollah members.[1][2]
- 2 June 2024 – 2024 Iranian presidential election
- Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that he intends to run for president again following the death of Ebrahim Raisi. Ahmadinejad has been rejected from running in the two previous presidential elections. (ABC News Australia)
- 30 May 2024 –
- 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. (NPR)
- 29 May 2024 –
- Amnesty International says that the number of executions recorded globally in 2023 was the highest since 2015 and up more than 30% from 2022, with Iran carrying out 74% of the global total. The figures exclude China, because execution numbers are considered a state secret. (BBC News)
- 20 May 2024 –
- First vice president of Iran Mohammad Mokhber becomes acting president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi. (Al Jazeera)
- 19 May 2024 – 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash
- A Bell 212 helicopter crashes in Varzaqan, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, killing all the eight people on board, including President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. (AP)
- ^ "Due to Israeli targeting of Aleppo countryside | 16 of Iranian-backed militias killed most of them of Syrian nationality". SOHR. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
- ^ "Under Israeli strikes | 17 people including two Iranians and three members of Lebanese Hezbollah kil;2 June 2024 – [[Syrian civil war]] :led". SOHR. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
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