Magnitude-5.9 quake strikes northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, leaving two people dead and 122 injured, local media say.
One guard was killed after an attacker targeted the post of Azerbaijan's diplomatic mission in Tehran with a Kalashnikov weapon.
Latest sanctions imposed by Tehran include the blocking of accounts and transactions in Iranian banks and the "prohibition of visa issuance and entry" to Iran.
Iran strongly condemned new sanctions imposed by the EU and Britain and said it would retaliate, after the West stepped up pressure on Iran over its crackdown on protests.
The EU and the UK introduce new sanctions against Iran for its violent crackdown on domestic protesters, but the EU says it will not yet designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group without a court order.
Olivier Vandecasteele was arrested by Iranian authorities in February 2022 and sentenced this month to more than 12 years in jail and 74 lashes for alleged "espionage".
"All those responsible for human rights violations in Iran should face EU sanctions, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps should be on the EU terrorist list," MEPs say.
President Mahmoud Abbas meets Jake Sullivan and seeks US pressure on Israel to halt its illegal settlement construction and its "daily killings and incursions into Palestinian cities and towns."
The European Parliament has blamed the Iranian security force for the repression of domestic protesters and the supply of drones to Russia's military in Ukraine.
The fighter jets are part of a major Iranian purchase, which also includes air defence systems, missile systems and helicopters as Tehran and Moscow deepen military cooperation.
British foreign secretary says sanctioning Mohammad Jafar Montazeri "underlines our disgust at Alireza Akbari's execution."
The United States and Britain urged Tehran to stand down on "possibly imminent" plans to execute an Iranian-British dual national accused of spying.
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