Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif appreciated Iraqi government and nation for pursuing the assassination of anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, saying ending the US presence in the region will be the best reaction to this terrorist act.
Zarif made the remarks in a meeting with his visiting Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein.
Both sides discussed the latest bilateral, regional and international developments.
Zarif hoped for punishing the
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, on Thursday denounced the terror attacks in Baghdad which killed and wounded a number of civilians.
In a message to his Iraqi counterpart Mohammed al-Halbousi, Ghalibaf expressed his worries and said, “I was saddened to hear about the terror acts in Baghdad and death and injury of a number of Baghdad citizens."
Ghalibaf strongly condemned the attacks and said, "I denounce the terrorist and anti-human attacks, I pray for forgiveness of
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says outgoing American president, Donald Trump, registered state terrorism on America’s official record by openly accepting responsibility for the assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a third country.
“We had [never before] seen a US president explicitly announcing that he had assassinated a senior military commander who was a guest in a third country,” Rouhani told a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday.
Following the terrorist operation in central Baghdad, Iranian Parliament Speaker announced Parliament's readiness to cooperate with the Iraqi Parliament to establish a legal framework for the fight against terrorism.
In the wake of a bomb blast in central Baghdad that killed and injured a number of civilians, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf sent a message to Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi, condemned the terrorist act and stressed Iran's continued cooperation and strong support for the
Iran has strongly condemned a deadly terrorist attack in Baghdad, saying the Takfiri terrorists are trying to disturb peace and security in Iraq and justify the foreign presence in the country.
In a statement on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh condemned terrorist bombings in the Iraqi capital today that killed and injured dozens of innocent Iraqi people.
Expressing deepest commiserations with the Iraqi government, nation and the families of the victims, the
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force in an operation managed to bust an anti-revolutionary terrorist who had assassinated a police chief in August 2018.
According to the public relations department of the IRGC Ground Force's Najaf Ashraf Base, following a series of comprehensive intelligence activities, the foreign-backed terrorist who had assassinated Major Hassan Maleki, the chief of the Traffic Police of Kermanshah’s Ravansar has been arrested.
The perpetrator of the heinous
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman strongly condemned US designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Saeed Khatibzadeh strongly condemned the US act to put Cuba on the list of the state sponsor of terrorism and emphasized the solidarity of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the Cuban government and people against the global arrogance.
According to Khatibzadeh, the claim that Cuba has been cooperating with Venezuela in the field of terrorism is a baseless accusation made by the United
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman reacted to Trump Administration Secretary of State's baseless allegations about Iran's link to al-Qaeda, emphasizing that Iran has a clear track record against al-Qaeda terrorism.
Saeed Khatibzadeh, in response to the recent accusations of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding Iran’s alleged links to al-Qaeda, on Tue., said that repeating the accusations and showing false documents under the titles of disclosing confidential information by US Secretary of
Iranian Defense Minister in a message to the defense ministers of more than 60 countries in the world on Wed. wrote that fighting against terrorism needs setting aside double-standard behaviors.
The global fight against terrorism and violence requires the elimination of dual behaviors in the fight against state terrorism, Brigadier General Amir Hatami emphasized.
Turning to the initiatives and achievements of top Iranian nuclear scientist Martyr Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the fields of science
Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi has said the Islamic Republic will pursue the case of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani’s assassination until all perpetrators behind the U.S. attack that killed the top anti-terror general are punished, warning that the outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump must be punished for the act of terror.
“In Iran, a special court has been established to follow up on this issue, but since the assassination took place in Iraq, we negotiated with Iraqi officials and
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said in a statement issued on Wednesday on the occasion of the anniversary of the Ukrainian plane downing that the bitter tragedy happened in the wake of the US terror attacks in the region.
Commemorating the ones that lost their lives in the incident, the statement said that a year has passed since the US terror attack, the subsequent reaction of the IRGC to hit Ain al-Assad airbase in Iraq, and the incident of the Ukrainian airliner, but the great
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf in a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the heads of the parliaments of other countries said that the assassination of Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani by the US army is a stance of organized state terrorism, overt violation of national sovereignty and independence of Iraq, and violation of Iran’s sovereignty.
Iran’s anti-terror commander Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani and the acting commander of the Iraqi
Iranian Ambassador to Brazil pointed to sacrifice and braveries of Iran's top commander martyr Lt. Gen. Soleimani and said that he stood firmly in the face of a global threat against international peace and security.
Speaking in an interview with Telesur TV Network on Mon., Hossein Gharibi called martyr Gen. Soleimani as the standard-bearer of the fight against terrorism in the international arena.
He said that efforts and international coalitions to counter serious threats of ISIL and defeat of
An Iranian Parliament member said that the drug embargo against Iran, which results from the sanctions imposed by Western countries, is one of the examples of terrorism and a clear violation of international laws.
Speaking in an interview with Mehr News Agency, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s Human Rights Faction, Mohammad Sargazi spoke about the impact of the sanctions against Iran in terms of access to essential medicines and medical equipment.
Unfortunately, today, human rights have
In a letter to IAEA Director-General, Iran's Permanent Representative to International Organizations called for clear and unconditional condemnation of the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Kazem Gharibabadi sent a letter to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi, saying, "This letter is about the cowardly terrorist act and brutal assassination of Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a prominent physicist scientist of the Islamic Republic of
Calling on international community to react to the killing of the elite, Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva said that the assassination of Fakhrizadeh is a clear example of warmongering state terrorism.
In a letter to the World Health Organization (WTO) Managing-Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday, Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh stressed the need for the international community to react decisively to the killing of the elite.
Outlining the services the martyred
Ali Bagheri-Kani called for UN condemnation of Fakhrizadeh assassination as a 'terrorist act', urging the body just for once, deal with terrorism in Iran, as it does in other countries such as France and Austria.
In separate letters to the UN Secretary-General and chief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights Ali Bagheri-Kani said that inaction against this criminal act will only give rise to speculations about
In reaction to the baseless remarks of Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that every terrorist group in our region has graduated from Saudi-funded Madrassas.
In a tweet on Thursday, Saeed Khatibzadeh wrote, "For decades, Wahabism—nurtured by colonial powers—has been *the* source of bigotry, hatred & terrorism in our region — and beyond."
"Fact: Every terrorist group in our region has graduated from Saudi-funded Madrassas," he added.
"No amount
IRGC's Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada headquarters announced that its forces have arrested 3 terrorist elements in Northwest Iran.
In a statement on Wednesday, IRGC's Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada headquarters announced that its forces have captured 3 terrorist elements in West Azerbaijan province.
The statement added that the elements intended to launch a terrorist attack in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Large quantities of weapons, ammunition, and communication equipment have also been seized by the
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the international community should condemn state terrorism and build a consensus to counter tension and adventurism in the region.
Zarif made the remarks in a Saturday tweet in the Chinese language in another reaction to the assassination of prominent Iranian nuclear scientist and researcher Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by suspected Israel-tied terrorists near the capital Tehran.
Fakhrizadeh, who headed the Iranian Defense Ministry’s Organization of