A member of Iranian Parliament’s Presiding Board said that the Parliament should give a decisive response to the recent US terrorist act in harassing Iran Air’s Mahan in its flight over Syrian sky.
Seyyed Nasser Mousavi Largani in an interview with FNA on Sat. said that the Iranian Parliament will not remain silent in the face of the US terrorist act.
He pointed to the harassment of an Iranian airliner by two US warplanes and added, “certainly, the criminal act of the United States will not go
Syrian Ambassador Adnan Hassan Mahmoud said that the harassment of an Iranian airliner is the embodiment of US terrorist acts.
"The harassment of an Iranian Mahan airliner by two US warplanes flying over Syrian sky is an objective symbol of the US terrorist acts against civilians, including children and women, and a clear violation of international laws and agreements regarding civilian flights," said Mahmoud.
"The act of aggression against Iranian airliner is in line with US actions
Condemning US plans to impose sanctions on Tehran and Caracas, the Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the UN said that it is a systematic plan to attack millions of lives by using economic terrorism.
The Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the UN Samuel Moncada posted a video showing US representatives openly exposing their plan to implement sanctions against both nations.
In a tweet on Tuesday, he condemned US plans to bring down the Bolivarian economy and Iran's, writing, "Amid the
Officials from the United States and Congress support the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK - Mujahedin-e Khalq), which Washington labeled as terrorists until 2012, the news.antiwar.com website reported on Monday.
The Iranian opposition group held its annual Free Iran conference on line on Friday, at which former politicians and military officers from the United States gave speeches, the website added.
The MEK is considered the main Iranian opposition group by Washington, and officials from the
Intelligence forces from the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps had arrested a team of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in the southern province of Fars, Tasnim reported on Friday.
The terrorist team had entered Fars Province in order to carry out acts of sabotage on the day marking the death anniversary of Imam Khomeini, which fell on June 3, deputy chief of the public relations department of the IRGC office in the province said.
Colonel Jalal Yarmohammadi said were arrested
Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) in a letter to new Australian Ambassador to Tehran Lyndall Sachs protested at the country for sheltering an anti-Iran separatist terrorist group.
“We as representatives of the families of 17,000 victims of terrorist groups in Iran strongly protest at the Australian government for sheltering a terrorist and violence-seeking group on its territory and view it as a clear instance of interference in our country’s internal affairs and support
Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, has said that the United States violated the principle of sovereignty by assassinating Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in early January.
In an interview with Al Mayadeen, she said that Washington failed to prove that the assassination was carried out to protect U.S. interests, ISNA reported on Sunday.
Callamard said on Thursday that the U.S. targeted killing of Soleimani was unlawful and risked
A UN human rights investigator said on Monday that the U.S. assassination of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani represented a “violation of the UN Charter”.
The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike on Soleimani’s convoy as it left Baghdad airport, said Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Callamard wrote in a report that the attack
Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), said on Saturday that assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was the United States’ gift to Takfiri terrorists and their supporters.
Speaking at a meeting of the secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council, Shamkhani said that Soleimani’s important role in fighting terrorism was the reason behind the U.S. hatred towards him.
The top security official noted that the world should praise Soleimani’s
Iranian Ambassador to Belgium Gholamhossein Dehghani has called Saudi Arabia as the “central bank of terrorism” and the main sponsor of extremism in the region and beyond, IRNA reported on Wednesday.
“The Saudi diplomat whose government is the central bank of terrorism and the main sponsor of extremism in the region and beyond has made the comments to escape the accusations Saudi Arabia faces for its crimes in Syria, so it has started accusing Iran,” Dehghani said during a conference on
Iranian Parliament Speaker called on Islamic countries to adopt serious decision for eliminating terrorism.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that Islamic countries should take serious decision for eliminating terrorism and extremism in the region to witness strengthening and consolidating peace and tranquility in the region.
Ghalibaf made the remarks on Thu. in a message sent to the speakers of the National Assemblies and Senate of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and expressed his deep condolences
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi in a message termed the US and Europe as supporters of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MEK/MKO) and their crimes.
"39yrs ago, today, Iran Chief Justice Ayatollah Beheshti & 72senior figures were assassinated by US-, Saddam-backed MEK terrorist cult," Mousavi wrote in his Twitter account on Saturday.
"Since then, MEK has remained under US/Euro auspices, letting it horribly kill & maim 10000+Iranians. Their blood on terrorist
Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has said the United States, as the world’s most infamous terrorist regime, is in no position to judge other countries.
In a statement on Thursday, Mousavi responded to the annual Country Reports on Terrorism released by the U.S., saying, “The Islamic Republic of Iran categorically rejects and condemns the U.S.’s annual Country Reports on Terrorism because that regime is blatantly shifting the blame onto others, is utterly insincere, and has double
“A government whose policy is relying on 'knee on neck' of either its own people or others around the world should be indeed happy with economic terrorism and pressure on the public,” the Iranian spokesperson said in a post on his Twitter account on Friday.
“But you see that not the Iranians' neck, but your knee was wrung. You will soon kneel in front of Iranian Nation,” Mousavi told the US officials.
The spokesman has also cited an interview that Al Arabiya has conducted with US Special
Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, the husband of New Jersey congressional candidate Amy Kennedy, was paid nearly $60,000 to deliver a speech last year in Albania to a controversial group that opposes the current regime in Iran but was considered a terrorist organization by the United States until 2012.
Amy Kennedy’s main opponent in the 2nd Congressional District’s Democratic primary, Brigid Harrison, has made Patrick Kennedy’s finances a campaign issue, and is calling the fee he earned from
Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy advisor to the Iranian Parliament speaker, has said that the Iranian people “know well” the terrorist leaders in the White House.
“Trump [U.S. President Donald Trump] cannot order assassination of international hero of the fight against terrorism (Dear General Soleimani) with one hand and with the other hand ask for shaking hands and holding talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Abdollahian said in a message posted on his Instagram page.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi reacted to the anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Iranian Parliament in 2017.
"With the support of the United States and the illusion of retaliation of the deadly blows incurred by the Resistance Front, under the commandership of Marty Lt. General Qassem Soleimani, terrorists attacked the central part of Iranian democracy i.e. Parliament and were annihilated at the beginning of the attack," Mousavi said on Saturday in a tweet on the
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned a recent anti-Iranian report issued by the US State Department, saying that the report is continuation of psychological war against Iran.
Given its dark history, the United States is by no means politically, legally, and morally qualified to judge other countries, said the ministry’s spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi on Monday.
The remarks came in response to a recent report by the US Department of State that accuses Iran of implementing
A number of terrorists have been killed as forces with Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) carried out a security operation in the western province of Kordestan, which borders Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
A statement by the IRGC’s Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada Base said several “counter-revolutionary’ terrorists were killed during clashes in Divandarreh County on Tuesday, without providing a specified number.
Three IRGC staff members, including senior commander Colonel Shakiba
Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi said that the United States should end its occupation of Syria under the excuse of fighting against terrorism.
Foreign forces, which Syrian government considers their presence in this country illegal, should leave the country and the United States should end its occupation of Syria under the mask of fighting terrorism.
He made the remarks on Monday in a meeting of United Nations Security Council [UNSC] held