Blast kills family of four in Ahvaz, southern Iran

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.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said at a ceremony at the burial site of Ruhollah Khomeini that in ordinary social protests people do not take up guns, kill security forces, or set ambulances and markets on fire, adding that the issue went beyond social protest and was aimed at tearing society apart.

"In these events Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Europeans all sought to incite unrest, create division and provide support, drawing some innocent people into the streets," he said on Saturday.

In response to designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organization, Iran could move through parliament to place European armies on its terrorist list, Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, told CNN Turk.

Europe’s actions, he said, would not reduce regional tensions, adding that countries working for the region’s welfare and stability are regional states, not European ones, and that Europe is only fueling the fire.

Araghchi said Europeans have lost something significant by acting against the Guards and that the European Union’s role in the region is steadily diminishing, adding that he regrets they are not even considering their own interests.