Iran’s Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi has announced the arrest of more than 40 terrorist operatives, saying several terrorist plots have been thwarted across the country.
Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Tuesday, Alavi added that over 20 operatives, who were travelling between Iran and neighboring Syria and Iraq, were detained in border areas.
He said 10 were also captured in the northern provinces of Tehran, Mazandaran and Golestan and the southeastern province of Sistan and
Following the deadly attack on Temporary Transit Location (TTL/Camp Liberty) and the death of at least 23 residents of the Camp, Maryam Rajavi the leader of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) said: “We had warned against such attacks...”!
Considering that several of such attacks had previously shaken the MKO Camps in Iraq, Maryam Rajavi’s warning to the United States and the United Nations seems pointless. Both the US and UN have been committed to relocate the residents of the
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said in a statement that there are approximately 2,160 MKO members in Camp Liberty waiting for their relocation to a third country.
“UNHCR and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) have been working since 2011 to find relocation opportunities outside Iraq for residents of the Hurriya TTL,” said UNHCR in a statement released following the attack on Camp Liberty residents. “Approximately 2,160 of this group remain in the Hurriya TTL.”
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has warned that if not confronted seriously, terrorism will spread from the Middle East region to the entire world.
In a meeting with Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Didier Reynders, in Tehran on Monday, Rouhani called for a collective fight against terrorism and violence.
“Today, violence and extremism have engulfed a large part of the Middle East region, and if these phenomena are not confronted seriously, the consequences of
Secretary General of Habilian Association dismissed as wrong the US policy towards MKO which resulted in overstaying their welcome in Iraq.
Seyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad made the remarks in an interview with Basirat correspondent.
“MKO’s close alliance with Saddam Hussein in suppressing the Iraqi people has always persecuted the Iraqi people and broke their national pride,” he added. “Following the US-led invasion of Iraq and MKO’s cooperation, the Iraqi’s national pride has broken more
Iran’s Secretary of SNSC Ali Shamkhani said the rapid developments in different parts of Syria revealed that US-led coalition of 60 countries only aimed at manipulating terrorism and not countering it.
Ali Shamkhani, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, in the annual conference of Iran’s ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions on Tuesday in Tehran, commemorated the occasion of Nov. 4 as the ‘National Day of Fighti against Global Arrogance,’ and added that the main mission of
Ahmad Jalizi was born on August 13, 1988, into a large and religious family in Susangerd, Khuzestan Province. His parents were both gardeners. A docile boy, Ahmad always helped his parents and was respectful to them. He had also an intimate relationship with his siblings, being as helpful as he could.
He successfully passed his school studies and became the top student in almost all levels. Having received his high school diploma, he went on to attend Islamic Azad University of Ahwaz as an
Senior analyst with the Jamestown Foundation has said the US policy makers have learned nothing from fourteen years of trillion dollar failures in Afghanistan and Iraq and now Libya, Syria, and Yemen.
“As in most parts of the world where the US has waged its war on terror, the supposed targets—terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State—are the primary beneficiaries,” wrote Michael Horton in an article posted on Counter Punch.
“These organizations exploit and feed off the
Any group fighting for its right to exist out of desperation is hailed as terrorist by whatever illicit power happens to be in control. Authoritarians always demonize the other, and often the other was or is being put upon by the controlling powers.
Terrorism is an outworking of oppression and desperation. The American revolutionaries were terrorists who went on to inflict genocide on Native Americans. America, as the world's police, is the leading user of oppression and a primary cause of
Sakineh Beygom Niknejad was born in 1946 in Behbahan, a city in the Southwestern Khuzestan province. She was the first child born to a stay-at-home mother and a father who worked as a contractor. She was known for a generous and altruistic behavior since her childhood. Although she was so young, she was so selfless and always tried to lift weight off others’ shoulders.
Being a studious and diligent student, she received a high school diploma sat for teacher training exam. She was admitted for
Yesterday’s attack on the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) base at Camp Liberty, a strike which killed 26 people, has been claimed by the al-Mukhtar Army, a Shi’ite militia active in the ongoing war against ISIS. The group says they’d warned the MeK to leave Iraq as soon as possible, and promised more attacks if they don’t.
The Camp Liberty base has been wildly controversial in Iraq, as the MeK, primarily an Iranian opposition faction, was an ally of the Saddam Hussein government ousted in the 2003 US
Head of the Strategic Research Center of Iran's Expediency Council Ali Akbar Veleyati cautioned that the Takfiri terrorists have plans to make inroads into Central Asia, a threat which he said necessitates Iran and Russia’s vigilance.
“We know that Takfiri terrorists seek to infiltrate into Central Asia, a region in the security domain of Russia and the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Velayati said Tuesday in a meeting in Tehran with a former advisor of Russia’s president.
He stressed that Tehran
FM Spokeswoman Afkham said US has to stop its terrorist-nurturing policies in order to pursue a political solution in Syria.
Deeming her American counterpart’s remarks on the need for Iran to stop supporting allies in order to resolve the Syrian crisis as unacceptable, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham underlined, “undoubtedly, Iran is serious and determined to fight terrorism and our actions in the region are in accordance with the country's responsibilities and interests in
Seyed Mohammad Taghi Makhzan Mousavi was born near the city of Rudbar in Gilan Province. As the last son of a religious family, his pious character was shaped at the early age. Having completed high school in Rudbar, he moved to the city of Tehran to study Cartography in the Technical Graduate School (now called Amir Kabir).
The presence in Tehran together with the highlighted role of people in revolutionary activities on the one hand and his truth-and-justice-seeking spirit on the other hand
Oroujali Shokri was born in March 30, 1963 in Lalejin, Hamedan in a family of 7 people. His father was a devout farmer and his mother was a housewife. Oroujali was kind and friendly as a child. After finishing middle school, he had to abandon school due to the poor economic situation of his families and work in a pottery workshop. Even at early age, he cherished his parents and went out of his way to respect the status and honor of his parents.
At the age of 10, Oroujali got into work market
The opening ceremony for the 2nd International Congress on 17000 Iranian Terror Victims featuring the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and a number of high administrative officials was held on August 31, 2015.
Attended by 400 families of Iranian victims of terror, 300 professors, researchers and students from universities around the country, 27 foreign experts on terrorism, and 17 ambassadors of foreign countries in Tehran, the conference started with recitation of verses of Holy Quran and
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the Middle East is plagued with three main problems, namely the Zionist regime of Israel, foreign interference in the region’s domestic affairs, as well as terrorism and violence.
The illegitimate regime of Tel Aviv is the root cause of many disasters in the Middle East region, President Rouhani said in a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil in Tehran on Sunday evening.
“Foreign countries’ interference in the internal affairs of the
Iran’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has warned about the threat posed by violent extremism to women in the Middle East.
Gholam-Hossein Dehqani told a UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Friday that women and girls have turned into targets for terrorist groups and extremists in parts of the region and are subjected to rape and sexual slavery.
The following is the full text of Dehqani’s speech before the Security Council Open Debate on Women and Peace and Security:
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Reza Shamaghdari was born into a religious and traditional family in 1936. His father was a wood supplier and although he had fathered 8 children, he did not neglect his children and went all out to raise all his children to grow up being devout Muslim.
Reza was the sixth child of a family of 10. He went gymnastics during his school years.
He got married at the age of 24 and starting working at a small paint shop. After some time, their union was blessed with a child that brought more joy and
At least two people have lost their lives and two others sustained injuries in an attack by unknown gunmen in Iran’s western province of Khuzestan.
The drive-by shooting happened late on Friday in the town of Safiabad, located in the city of Dezful in Khuzestan province, when the masked assailants opened fire on a group of people who were holding a ritual mourning for Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shia imam, the Fars news agency reported.
Security forces have launched an investigation into the