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Ayatollah Makarem urges Muslim nations to create strong medi...
( Iran )
Qom:In a meeting with an Iranian official in Imam Al-Sajjad (as) seminary school in the city of Qom, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, a senior Shia cleric, said, ” We are living in a world which is dominated by media networks; the media play the main role in today’s world and we need to give this issue serious consideration. Every penny spent on creating effective media is worth it since Islam’s enemies are controlling a strong network of media worldwide and we must not...
“Muslims were founders of western sciences” Iranian Sunn...
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Tehran:Prominent Iranian Sunni scholar hailed Muslims as forerunners of western sciences and stressed Islamic unity as the sole way for transcendence of science and using natural and human resources in the world of Islam. Molavi Nazir Ahmad, Iranian Sunni Member of the Assembly of Expert in the Parliament, attended a meeting on Islamic proximity calling solidarity among different denominations a way for scientific ascendance and praised Muslims as founders of present western sciences, reported TNA He...
Top Iraqi cleric warns of US embassy move to Al Quds...
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Baghdad:Iraqi Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, warned against possible relocation of US embassy in Al-Quds calling that a “declaration of war on Islam”.
“Transferring the US embassy to Jerusalem [al-Quds] would be a public and more-explicit-than-ever declaration of war against Islam,” Sadr said in a statement.
Touching on US President Donald Trump’s pledges to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of the occupied territories, Sadr called for the “formation of a special division...
Saudis invade Yemen to prove bondage to US:Ansarullah leader...
( Yemen )
Sana:The leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, says Saudi invasion of Yemeni nation aims proving the Arab kingdom’s bondage to the United States.
Addressing a group of Yemenis in the capital, Sana’a, on Friday, Houthi stressed the need for popular mobilization in the face of Saudi Arabia’s acts of aggression, and warned against any capitulation and surrender to enemies, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.
He described the...
Lebanese Sunni scholar slams inaction against terrorism...
( Lebanon )
Beirut:Prominent Lebanese cleric rapped those silent against terrorism as part of the deviate group saying that a solution for the plague is not achieved easily.
Sheikh Maher Hamoud, director of the World Union of Resistance Scholars, in his Friday sermon in Sidon’s Al-Quds Mosque said the world people have not made it to diagnose the threat of terrorism slamming those inactive against the plague as part of the issue, reported TNA
He said,” We are clearly witnessing that the US, Zionist...
Indifference to politics makes no sense: Ayatollah Mohsen Ar...
( Iran )
Tehran”The present situation in which enemies are after debilitating religious teachings is without precedent,” pointed out the Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought.
Addressing the Seminar of “Revolutionary Seminary and Its Missions” which was mounted in holy city of Qom, Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought, Ayatollah Mohsen Araki underscored,” the present situation...
US Democrats denounce Trump’s ‘backward, nasty’...
( US )
Washington:A number of US Democratic senators have joined a growing number of lawmakers who are denouncing President Donald Trump’s executive order to bar entry of people from certain Islamic countries. The president’s order, signed on Friday—after a week in office— bars all persons from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia from entering the United States for 90 days and suspends the US Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days until the president determines they have been sufficiently...
Saudis offered me bribe to abandon government: Syrian MP...
( Russia )
Moscow:Saudi Arabia attempted to bribe parliamentarians in order to persuade them to oppose the Syrian government, an MP tells Sputnik.
Mohammed Kheir Jasim al-Nadir said that while some Syrian leaders have indeed taken bribes from Saudi Arabia and stayed in the country, he refused the offer and went to serve Syria instead.
“Saudi Arabia offered us money to break away from Assad and oppose the Syrian government. We were offered it (the bribe) at the house of the Syrian ambassador to Riyadh...
Terrorism ‘a threat to ME cultures, civilizations̵...
( Iran )
Tehran:Iran`s President Rouhani underlined that terrorism is not only a threat to people, but also to great cultures and civilizations of the Middle East.
Addressing the 17th World Federation of Tourist Guides Associations (WFTGA) Convention on Saturday morning in Tehran, President of Islamic Republic of Iran Dr.Hassan Rouhani welcomed all participants expressing hope that the visit to Iran would lead to a greater familiarity with the age old history and culture of a hospitable nation.
He underlined...
Trump orders military chiefs to devise plan in 30 days to de...
( US )
Washington:US President Donald Trump has signed yet another executive order directing the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to devise a plan within 30 days to destroy the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group. Trump signed the military directive on Saturday, along with two other executive orders, including one imposing restrictions on highly lucrative lobbying for foreign governments by administration officials. In remarks following the order to military commanders, Trump said, “I think it’s going to...