Teenage protester arrested alive, executed as family sought bail - eyewitness

The public relations office of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps denied that its navy commander Alireza Tangsiri had been assassinated.

“The claim originated from an account known as Terror Alarm, which has previously circulated false information on security and military matters,” the IRGC said in a statement issued after a powerful blast struck a residential building in the southern city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday.

A second blast in southern Iran hit a four-unit residential building in Ahvaz on Saturday, killing four people, local media reported.

Babak Rabiei, head of the Ahvaz Fire and Safety Services, told ISNA the incident occurred in the Kianshahr neighborhood and killed four members of one family — a father, mother and their two children.

Rabiei said two people, a three-year-old child and a woman, were pulled alive from under the rubble.

An explosion damaged a residential building in Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday afternoon, Iranian media reported, with videos showing heavy damage to several floors.

Footage shows a car being hurled aside by the force of the blast. Guards-linked Tasnim denied reports that Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the IRGC Navy, had been killed in the blast.

A group of Iranians living in Australia marched in support of national uprising and exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi in the city of Brisbane, Videos received by Iran International on Saturday show.

Participants were seen chanting slogans including “this is the final battle, Pahlavi will return” and “death to Khamenei.”

Iran's Army Cheif Amir Hatami said Iran’s armed forces are at a high level of defensive and military readiness and are closely monitoring enemy movements across the region.

Awareness of hostile intentions, Hatami said, has kept Iran’s forces with their “finger on the trigger,” signaling readiness to respond to any escalation.