International
Iran’s Zarif writes to UN chief over Rohingya Muslims in M...
( Iran )
Tehran:Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has written to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to demand international action to stop rights violations against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. In a letter addressed to Guterres on Friday, Zarif said the plight of the Rohingya has caused international concern. The ethnic Muslims have not only been deprived of their most basic right — i.e. the right to belong to a country and a government that would protect them — they are...
Turkey plane transfers Daesh terrorists from Aleppo to Yemen...
( Turkey )
Sanna:Yemeni sources say a Turkish plane transporting scores of Daesh Takfiri terrorists has landed in the Aden International Airport in southern Yemen. Yemen’s al-Masirah news website reported that the plane carried 150 terrorists who were evacuated from Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo after Syrian government forces fully retook control of the city. On December 22, the Syrian army said Aleppo had completely returned to government control after the last batch of civilians and militants were...
Saudi Arabia invites Iran to discuss Hajj...
( Saudi Arabia )
Riyadh:Reports say Saudi Arabia has invited Iran to discuss the resumption of Hajj pilgrimages by Iranians, a process that has been halted over a litany of Hajj-time disasters and moves by Riyadh impeding the performance of the Islamic ritual by Iranians. London-based daily al-Hayat reported that Saudi Pilgrimage Minister Mohammed Bentin had opened discussions with more than 80 countries, including Iran, to work out the details of the 2017 Hajj. “Iran’s hajj delegation was invited to come to...
Ahlul Bayt World Assembly condoles on Kashmiri Scholar demis...
( Iran )
Tehran:The Ahlul Bayt World Assembly has issued a message of condolence following the death of Hujjat ul-Islam Syed Maqsood Ali Rizvi, Kashmiri member of the Assembly. The full text of the message is as follows: In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful The demise of the divine scholar Hujjat ul-Islam Sayyed Maqsood Ali Razavi, has left us full of sorrow. He was one of the greatest academic and seminary characters in the Kashmir region, who gave valuable services to the...
Muslim World must unite behind UN vote against Israel settle...
( Iran )
Tehran:An Iranian official has urged all Muslim countries to stand united behind a recently-approved United Nations Security Council resolution that censures Israel for its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. “Muslim countries’ united support for the Security Council resolution against the Zionist regime’s settlements is the least that must be done,” said Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian parliament speaker’s special advisor on international affairs,...
To obey Jesus Christ, one needs to support truth, abhor powe...
( Iran )
Tehran:Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, issued a message on January 02, 1995 for the auspicious birth anniversary of Jesus Christ (pbuh) and the commencement of the New Year on the Gregorian calendar. The full text of the message is as follows: In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful I congratulate all Christians and Muslims—particularly our Christian compatriots—on the birth anniversary of His Majesty Jesus Christ, the great prophet, as well as the...
Takfiri terrorism does not belong to Islam:Sayyed Hassan Nas...
( Lebanon )
Beirut:The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says Takfiri militants perpetrating heinous crimes across the Middle East and North Africa have no connection to Islam and the religion’s most revered figure Prophet Muhmamd (PBUH). Addressing his supporters via a video link from the Lebanese capital city of Beirut, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah stated that efforts to tarnish the image of Islam have entered a new phase, stressing that all Muslims bear the responsibility of...
Iran, Russia, Turkey start bid to solve Syria crisis diploma...
( Russia )
Moscow:Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran, Russia and Turkey have started the process of finding a political solution to the Syria crisis. There is no military solution to the Syria conflict and the country’s crisis can only be solved through political approaches, Zarif said in Moscow on Tuesday. The Iranian foreign minister was speaking at a meeting with his Russian and Turkish counterparts Sergei Lavrov and Mevlut Cavusoglu, respectively, and members of the three countries’...
Russian ambassador to Turkey killed after gun attack in Anka...
( Russia )
Moscow:Russia’s ambassador to Ankara, Andrey Karlov, who was shot in the Turkish capital, December 19, 2016. The Russian ambassador to Ankara has reportedly died of being seriously wounded following a gun attack in the Turkish capital. Andrey Karlov was attacked while visiting an art exhibition opening in the Turkish capital on Monday, television reports said. RIA Novosti cited sources as saying that he had died of his injuries. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova,...
Syrian Goverment with the support of Nation defeated terrori...
( Damascus )
Damascus:“Iran and Russia came to Syria to defend the country while 180 other countries came to Syria to destroy it,” Grand Mufti of Syrian Badreddin Hassoun said in an address to Irish lawmakers, the Arabic-language Al Mayadeen TV reported on Thursday. He further called on European governments to ignore media outlets that are trying to tarnish the image of the Syrian government, saying that if they want peace and intend to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, they should go to Syria and...