"These hired terrorists (ISIL) are pursuing the interests of the US and Israel in the region," General Dehqan said in a joint press conference with his visiting Iraqi counterpart Khalid al-Obeidi in Tehran on Tuesday.
He reiterated that the arrogant powers have threatened the security and stability of the region through hatching plots and sponsoring a Takfiri current, and said, "Today Iraq and Syria are the scenes of inhuman and terrorist moves, and Iran and Iraq should naturally expand their
A funeral procession was held on Monday for an Iranian military advisor who had been martyred in Iraq.
Brigadier General Hamid Taqavi was martyred while giving training to Iraqis in defending the Iraqi city of Samarra in Salahuddin province.
Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said if persons such as General Taqavi do not resist terrorism in Iraq and Syria terrorists will then seek to make Iran insecure.
“If the dearest children of Islamic Iran like
The anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has openly expressed support for the ISIL militants and their acts of terror in a clear indication of its wrath over Iran-Iraq cooperation against the Takfiri group.
In a statement on Saturday, the MKO said any measure against ISIL would be a blatant violation of the UN Security Council’s agreements, IRNA reported.
The terrorist organization also called for an immediate end to moves against the ISIL militants.
The statement
Qorban Babaki in the village of Asur in Firuzkuh and pursued his studies till he was 10 years of age. He started his job as a craftsman working with gypsum and soon gained success in his chosen profession. He then got married at the age of 18 and had a daughter.
Babaki attended the religious meetings and Quran recitation sessions and joined the Basij Forces. He also had cooperation with Hadrat Mahdi (a.j.) Library.
In January 26, 1982, Qorban Babaki decided to help the IRGC members in the
A senior Iranian military officer has lost his life in the battle against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists in Iraq.
Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi was shot and killed by one or more snipers "while performing his advisory mission to confront ISIS terrorists," according to a statement from Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which refers to another name for the Islamic State.
Taqavi was a military commander during the 1980-1988 Iraqi-imposed war against Iran.
A funeral procession will be held for Taqavi at 9:00
WMR’s sources in Turkey and Iran are confirming that links have been established between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Iranian exiled terrorist group Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) through Central Intelligence Agency and Israeli Mossad interlocutors.
There have reportedly been personal contacts between the husband-and-wife leadership of the MEK, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, and the senior leadership of ISIL. These contacts have been authorized by ISIl’s self-proclaimed
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said during his visit in Iraq on Thursday that the way the US is treating the issue of terrorism is distrustful.
In a meeting with the Leader of Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim, he said suggesting such issues as 'moderate terrorism' is a deception.
Referring to his tour of three countries of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, he expressed happiness over the fact that security situation has been remarkably improved in these countries.
He commented
Iranian Intelligence Minister Seyed Mahmoud Alawi announced on Wednesday that the country's border guards have arrested several terrorists along the country's Eastern borders.
"Three terrorist leaders have been arrested by Iran's border regiment," Alawi said, addressing people in the city of Ferdos in Eastern Iran this evening.
He noted that the arrested terrorists had been plotting to carry out suicide attacks on public religious ceremonies during the lunar months of Moharram and Safar -
Iranian parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani says the military campaigns carried out by the US across the globe have led to the creation of terrorist groups in the invaded countries.
“Experience drawn from the spread of terrorism in Afghanistan shows that any time the US marches into a country, terrorist groups will sprout there,” Larijani said in a meeting with Iraqi Vice President Usama al-Nujayfi in Baghdad on Wednesday.
He also held some countries responsible for the rise in
A former US Marine says the US alleged war on ISIS is nothing but an “excuse” to take out Bashar al-Assad and if US wants to stop the group, it should just “cut up the money supply.”
Activist Kenneth O’Keefe told Habilian Association that the solution for ending the terrorist organizations is to “get rid of the bankers who control money supplies”. “Once you get rid of that and take control of money supply, these people, Saudi Arabia, will no longer have an unending flood of money that they
Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani has criticized certain regional countries for implicitly backing terrorist groups, saying their support has led to the spread of terrorism.
Speaking in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on Tuesday, Larijani said some countries in the region, however, sided with the Iraqi people and expressed their opposition to terrorist groups.
“That many regional countries have realized the region’s sensitivities and the danger of terrorism over the past year is
Iran’s foreign ministry spokeswoman on Tuesday condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
“This is a totally un-Islamic and inhumane action,” Marziyeh Afkham said, adding that terrorism, extremism and putting innocent people’s lives at risk in any form and with any purpose are reprehensible.
She also expressed sympathy with the government and nation of Pakistan, especially the bereaved families of victims.
Afkham further said
Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Hossein Dehqani has called on the international community to adopt firm and urgent measures to counter violence and extremism amid growing terrorist activities across the world.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran attaches special importance to any attempt to promote peace, tolerance, dialog, and understanding among cultures, religions, and civilizations,” Dehqani said in an address to a UN General Assembly session on Monday, Press TV reported.
He also
The Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK) and all its affiliates were listed in the Australian Consolidated List of sanctioned parties.
Published by the Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the list which is updated regularly is said to include “all persons and entities who are subject to targeted financial sanctions or travel bans under Australian sanctions laws.”
MKO and all its affiliates, including NCRI, NLA, PMOI, etc. have been listed for the first
During the last two years a number of opinion pieces have appeared in The Hill against Iran. These articles serve the interests and are written by the members and affiliates of a terrorist group known as the Mujahedeen-Khalq Organization (MEK). This group goes by various other names such as PMOI and NCRI and has an elaborate set of front groups and astroturf operations designed to allow them to operate in the U.S. while they were designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S
A former jaildbird at Camp Bucca, a US-run prison in southern Iraq, says the rise of the ISIS would not be possible without the US prisons.
In an exclusive interview to the Guardian, Abu Ahmed, now a senior official within ISIS, reveals how ISIS might never have formed if US detention centers hadn’t existed.
Abu Ahmed said that he along with other prisoners quickly realised that far from their worst fears, the US-run prison provided an extraordinary opportunity. “We could never have all got
The MKO’s claims for solidarity with Iranian people or animosity with them?
The Mujahedin-e-Khalq is a title for followers of Maryam Rajavi. The term “Mujahedin” is an Arabic word meaning “freedom fighters”. The Mujahedin has been allegedly fighting against the late shah of Iran and consequently the Islamic Republic that was established after the 1979 revolution in Iran. They claim that they want to liberate the Iranian “People”; the Arabic term “Khalq” means “people”. But do the leaders of
Iranian-American analyst and commentator on Middle East affairs says the MKO is always front and center to condemn Iran in the war of words on Iran's domestic issues and controversial nuclear program.
“Through social media, the group spams most Iran-related hashtags with their propaganda, bankroll prominent U.S. officials to advocate on their behalf as the ‘democratic alternative’ to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and even re-opened an office a block from the White House where they hired former
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says state sponsors of terrorism must cut off their direct and indirect financial aid to terrorists and cooperate with the victims of terrorism.
“The countries that have helped the creation of terrorism by organizing and providing financial aid must explicitly renounce them and cut off their direct and indirect financing,” President Rouhani said in his opening speech to an international conference on the World Against Extremism and Violence (WAVE) in the
A senior Iranian lawmaker says strategic miscalculations by the US government and its allies in the Middle East are to blame for growing terrorism in the region.
“The ominous phenomenon of terrorism in the region is the result of strategic miscalculations by the US and its regional allies,” Chairman of Iranian parliament's (Majlis) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Saturday.
Boroujerdi made the remarks in a meeting with Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign