Three members of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have been killed after their vehicle hit a booby trap in the border region of Saravan in Sistan-and-Baluchestan Province, southeast of Iran.
The deadly incident occurred at 6:30 am local time (03:00 GMT) on Wednesday, said deputy provincial governor Rajabali Sheikhzadeh, Press TV reported.
The victims were members of the IRGC’s engineering division working on construction projects in the border area, the official
Washington is not inclined towards rapprochement with Tehran as hostility towards Iran is in the nature of the US and Tehran has sufficient evidence and documents to prove this, a legislator said.
“The US has taken extensive measures against our country, including waging military aggression in Tabas (on April 24, 1980, the Operation Eagle Claw was a United States military operation to free its embassy staff from Iran that failed due to a ferocious sandstorm that overturned US
According to reports a number of masked gunmen killed 15 Iranians along with three Iraqis working on a gas pipeline in Diyala Province on Friday.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry today condemned the attack and vowed swift action against the terrorist act.
Hasan Danaeifar, Iranian Ambassodar in Baghdad, also said that an Investigative Committee, made up of senior Army commanders and security officials, has been formed at the order of Nouri al-Maliki.
He described the killing
Name: Mohammad Hasan Shekarchi
Date of Birth: 1961
Place of Birth: Zanjan
Place of Martyrdom: Zanjan
Date of Martyrdom: August 20, 1981
Martyr Mohammad Hasan Shekarchi was born on May 22, 1961 in a middle class family in northwestern city of Zanjan. He was the fifth child in his family. After he finished his studies, Mohammad Hasan was recruited by the local police. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, he joined the newly established Islamic Republic Party. Martyr Shekarchi used to
An Iraqi Member of Parliament said the Iraqi Constitution has prohibited the presence of the groups opposed to the neighboring countries, and that they will expel these members.
“Despite the MKO’s persistence for stating in Iraq, there’s no article in the country’s Constitution allowing the group to remain in the country anymore,” MP Hassoun al-Fatlawi told Habilian’s correspondent in Baghdad.
Not only the MKO but any other terrorist group and even groups opposed to neighboring
A senior Iranian lawmaker has called for the immediate identification and punishment of the perpetrators behind the recent terrorist attacks against Iran’s embassy in Beirut.
Spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said members of a delegation sent to Lebanon by the committee requested the immediate identification of the perpetrators behind the attacks in meetings with different Lebanese officials.
“The global
An outstanding Irish journalist says the West does nothing in the face of the Saudis funding the Sunni terrorist groups, since they don’t want to “offend a close ally” and the terrorists target Shia Muslims.
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the Independent, wrote yesterday in an article published on The Independent that the donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni jihadist groups over the past 30
A top Iranian official says the spillover of foreign-backed terrorism seriously jeopardizes security in the Middle East.
“The spread of sponsored terrorism is the most major threat to regional security,” said Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani in a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maleki in Tehran on Wednesday.
Shamkhani noted that Iraq’s security will have a “direct impact” on the region’s security developments.
Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri, head of the Supreme Council of the Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought (FPIST), made the remark in a meeting with Dmitri Safonov, head of Interfaith relations Section of Russia’s Orthodox Church, adding that Western countries, especially the US, spread violence and terrorism in the region.
He praised Russia’s stances vis-à-vis regional issues, especially the Syrian issue, hoping that relations between the Islamic Republic of
The MKO-run lobby in the US Congress is frustrated at the deal against made in Geneva that cracked the 3-dacade wall of mistrust between Iran and the US. Motivated by large amounts of money paid by the MKO and its large scale propaganda against the Iranian nuclear program, predictably the advocates of this formerly designated terrorist group rejected the deal.
Voice of Russia published a report on "a last ditch effort to derail diplomacy and garner support for regime change in
Iranian President Hassan Rohani called Sunday on the international community to combat terrorism and extremism, describing them as the real threat which affect the world, especially the peoples of this region.
The Iranian leader made his remarks during a meeting with Syrian Prime Minister Wael Al-Halqi, adding "the region suffers from two major problems terrorism and extremism, and everyone must be ready to confront them."
President Rohani pointed out that the most dangerous
Name: Seyed Asgari Zargari
Date of Birth: 1964
Place of Birth: Semnan
Place of Martyrdom: Islamabad-e Gharb, Mersad operation
Date of Martyrdom: July 29, 1988
Seyed Asgari Zargari was born in Semnan on 1964. He finished his preliminary studies at his hometown and at the same time used to help his father in his laundry shop.
After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, he enthusiastically formed a singing group to attract the youth to the mosque. He performed about 300 songs in various
In a distortion of historical records, the former Secretary of Homeland Security describes the Mujahedin-e Khalq's murder of US citizens as “allegations.”
Last week, Sean Nevins, Voice of Russia correspondent, attended what he called “a last ditch effort to derail diplomacy and garner support for regime change in the Islamic Republic” held on the Capitol Hill by the MEK and wrote about his observations and interview with Tom Ridge.
“Prominent US officials, such as John Bolton
The suicide terrorist attacks targeting the Iranian Embassy in Beirut were conducted by al-Qaeda-linked militants, Lebanese Parliament Speaker says.
In a joint press conference with Iran Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani in Tehran on Monday, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri offered his condolences to the Iranian nation and said all Lebanese groups have condemned the terrorist attack.
Commenting on Iran's nuclear deal with the sextet of world powers, Berri said that Tehran
The recent discovery of three modern slaves in a quiet area in London has echoes of the situation of the three thousand hostages in Camp Liberty in Iraq. In each case the victims were brought together thirty years ago to live collectively as part of a shared political ideology. In London, as in Iraq, this went wrong when the use of emotional and physical abuse was used to enslave the victims against their will.
Just as the three women in London have had traumatic and
Iran which has lost a great number of its citizens to acts of terrorism is a strong proponent of fight against the deadly menace, and has spearheaded calls for tougher action against terrorism across the region and the world, said an Iranian deputy interior minister on Saturday.
Iran wants to have better bilateral cooperation with China in campaign against terrorism, organized crime, and narcotic drugs trafficking, said Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affaits Ali
Unfortunately, the United Nations turns a blind eye to the Israeli regime and shows double standards in the regional issues, says an Iraqi Member of Parliament in an exclusive interview with Habilian Association.
Referring to MKO’s recent allegations accusing Tehran of building a secret nuclear site, MP Rafe’ Abdul Jabbar said “Nuclear energy is Iran’s inalienable right” just like many other countries who are exercising the right to enrich Uranium.
Iraqi MP censured the
Once again the UN High Commissioner of Refugees urges the member states to take members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, aka MEK and NCRI) in their countries.
“UNHCR encourages all Member States to share in the international efforts, admit residents and offer them a long-term solution,” the statement reads.
The statement adds that so far the UNHCR has so far relocated 300 members of the MKO to third countries. The majority of these relocated MKO members
Iran’s Embassy in Lebanon has announced that six Iranian nationals lost their lives in the twin bombings outside the embassy building in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
According to embassy’s press release, Iranian Cultural Attaché to Beirut Hojjatoleslam Ebrahim Ansari, the wife of an Iranian diplomat and four security guards at the embassy were martyred in the terrorist attacks on Tuesday.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said later in the day that Ansari
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan dismissed as “lies” the recent claims made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, NCRI and PMOI) that Iran has an “undeclared nuclear site” at one of its military facilities.
General Dehqan’s remarks came after MKO claimed that Iran has a nuclear site that it has not declared its presence to the International Atomic Energy Agency