Two senior United Nations officials condemned yesterday in the strongest terms the “barbaric acts” of sexual violence and “savage rapes” the ISIS terror group has perpetrated on minorities in areas under its control.
In a joint statement from Baghdad, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence (SRSG) in Conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov urged the immediate protection of
Egypt’s top religious authority has condemned Takfiri ISIL militants for atrocities they have been perpetrating in conflict-stricken Syria and Iraq and their violation of principles and teachings preached by Islam.
On Tuesday, Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam labelled the ISIL militants as members of a corrupt and extremist organization.
He said the group poses a danger to Islam and Muslims, tarnishes the image of Islam, sheds Muslims’ blood and spreads corruption.
The mufti further noted that
An American journalist and PhD holder in history said shilling for Mujahedin-e Khalq terror group by many prominent American former officials and politicians is one of the more disgraceful displays of the last decade, and as long as it continues it should be held up for derision.
"The de-listing fight may be over, but that hasn’t stopped the Mujahedin-e Khalq‘s American cheerleaders from uncritically repeating its propaganda," wrote Daniel Larison in an article published on American
The United Nations (UN) Security Council has lashed out at the crimes committed by the ISIL Takfiri group inside Iraq and Syria, calling it a threat to the whole region.
British Ambassador to the UN Mark Lyall Grant, who is the president of the Security Council for August, said in a statement on Tuesday that Council members are deeply concerned about the situation of hundreds of people facing ISIL brutalities in Iraq and Syria.
“The members of the Security Council note that the large-scale
The ISIS installations in Northern Iraq came under attack yesterday Friday by the US, which earlier armed and funded the terror group in Syria.
According to US president Barak Obama, the strikes were aimed to "American personnel, and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of Iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food and water and facing almost certain death."
"To stop the advance on Erbil, I've directed our military to take targeted strikes against ISIL terrorist
A world-renowned Canadian scholar says that the project of War on Terror was launched with a view to demonize the Muslim nations and then dominate their vast oil reserves.
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky is of the opinion that the United States created the terrorist cult Al-Qaeda and is now pretending to be fighting and eradicating it while in effect funding and assisting it. He also believes that the United States has been responsible for the demise of democracy in several Asian and Latin American
Last week, members of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the ruthless militant group currently marauding through Iraq, reportedly blew up the tomb of the Prophet Yunus. The burial site of Yunus, commonly known to many Christians as the biblical figure Jonah, was located in the modern-day city of Mosul (once the biblical city of Nineveh), and was seen by many archeologists and religious scholars as an ancient — and precious — religious artifact. Now, reports indicate, it is little
The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia have supported terrorist groups for years, helping ISIL Takfiri militants to "take over" Muslim countries, an American investigative journalist says.
Wayne Madsen, who is also an author and columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs, said US whistleblower Edward Snowden’s recent revelation that Takfiri terrorist leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi was trained in Israel “is not a new thing.”
Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor
Mujahedin-e Khalq sees Iraq's political system as part of the resistance and an anti-Zionist base, so they are trying to overthrow it, an Iraqi security analyst said.
Jassim al-Mousavi made the remarks in an interview with Habilian's correspondent, adding that the MKO tries to wage a sectarian war in Iraq in collaboration with ISIS.
Al-Mousavi described the MKO members as part of the bloody clash in Iraq that is directed by the remnants of the former Iraqi Ba'ath regime.
The security
Empires are not easy to sustain given the multiple enemies that they provoke: at the international level (imperial rivals and emerging new powers), at the national level (national resistance movements, unreliable clients and untrustworthy ‘Sepoy’ armies) and at the local level (boycotts, sabotage and strikes). Imperial difficulties are multiplied when an empire is in economic decline, (loss of market shares with growing debt ), facing domestic unrest as the economic costs to the taxpayers
Name: Fazlollah Soleimani
Date of Birth: 1950
Place of Birth: Shangaldeh
Date of Martyrdom: January 26, 1982
Place of Martyrdom: Amol
Martyr Fazlollah Soleimani was born in 1950 in Shangaldeh village near Amol. He quit school because of his family’s poor financial conditions and started working as a construction worker.
As he was grown in a religious family, he was very much affected by Islam and its prophet. Fazlollah was in touch with Qom’s Hawzah and its religious leaders. He used to
The assassin of the first Iranian nuclear scientist to be assassinated in terrorist acts was an Iranian operative recruited and trained by Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, reported Christian Science Monitor's Scott Peterson.
"News reports from Israel indicate that a televised confession by Majid Jamali Fashi, broadcast on Iran state TV in early 2011, was genuine," he noted. "Speaking from Tehran's Evin prison, the young man described his training – which included working with two new Iranian
According a document recently released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, now the Islamic State, is an intelligence asset.
The NSA document reveals the United States, Israel, and Britain are responsible for the creation of ISIS.
Earlier this month Nabil Na’eem, the founder of the Islamic Democratic Jihad Party and former top al-Qaeda commander, told the Beirut-based pan-Arab TV station al-Maydeen all current al-Qaeda affiliates, including ISIS
Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has blamed the United States and its regional allies for the growing insecurity and chaos in the Middle East.
“Supporting terrorism by the US and certain regional countries is the root cause of insecurity and chaos in the region,” Larijani said in a meeting with Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Spanish Parliament Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida in Tehran on Tuesday.
He denounced the Israeli regime’s crimes in the Gaza Strip and said independent
Iran and China say terrorist moves in Iraq would be dangerous for the whole region and the world, urging a concerted international effort to counter terrorism.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and China’s Middle East envoy Wu Sike held a meeting in Tehran On Sunday and discussed the latest developments in the region, particularly the situation in Iraq.
Amir-Abdollahian outlined Iran’s principled policies regarding regional developments and
Why are Newt Gingrich, Joe Lieberman and Patrick Kennedy hanging with members of a terrorist cult?
Hamid Babaei, a counselor for the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, has written a column published July 10 in USA Today newspaper criticizing the US officials for supporting the MEK terrorists.
What follows is the full text of his column, titled “Big Money Buys Powerful Friends”:
Several well-known American political figures appeared at a rally in Paris
An Iraqi political analyst and head of Iraq's Center for Strategic Studies says the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO, a.k.a. MEK) terrorist groups serve the interests of Zionists in the region.
Mohammad Sadeq al-Hashemi told Habilian that the Mujahedin-e Khalq and ISIS are poles apart in ideology. "MKO is a secular group which pays no attention to the Islamic injunctions. They are mercenaries against the Islamic Republic of Iran and forming an Islamic
On July 3, 1988, in an unprovoked move, US carrier USS Vincennes fired two missiles at an Iranian passenger plane, Iran Air Flight 655, which was on route to Dubai. All 290 innocent civilians were killed. The United States did not apologize or admit to wrongdoing. Washington has always maintained that the shooting down of the passenger plane was an accident.
But was it? The Vincennes' crew, without visual confirmation, fired at the Iranian passenger airliner ‘believing’ it to be an F14
Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani blasted the European states for sheltering members of the terrorist groups, including PJAK (the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan) and Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCRI), adding that they have turned into a safe haven for the terrorists.
"The western countries show a double-standard behavior towards the phenomenon of terrorism," Larijani said in a meeting with the Belgium foreign ministry's
Former US officials support for MEK due to the group's intelligence gathering against Iran, reported Washington Times.
Washington Times cites former US officials who are backing the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO( as saying that the intelligence-gathering role of the MKO in Iran is the reason why they support the group.
Guy Taylor's Washington Times wrote in a report which was published on the Washington Times that each of the former U.S. officials who spoke with The Times on his report