Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has lashed out at some regional states for continued financing of the ISIL terrorists, saying terrorism and extremism are threatening the entire Middle East and even Western countries.
In a meeting with Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs Elmar Brok in Tehran on Sunday, Zarif added that some regional countries are helping ISIL despite their "anti-terrorism slogans."
“Some countries in our region unfortunately think
John Brennan, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, went on “Face the Nation” last Sunday and did something weird: he acknowledged that U.S. foreign policy might sometimes cause terrorism. Of course, he didn’t word it exactly like that, but close enough:
BRENNAN: I think the president has tried to make sure that we’re able to push the envelope when we can to protect this country. But we have to recognize that sometimes our engagement and direct involvement will stimulate and spur
Dr. Jang Ji-Hyang, policy advisor on Middle East issues to South Korean foreign minister and director of the Center for Regional Studies at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, pointed out the similarity between Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO, MEK, NCRI,) and Al-Qaida affiliated groups like ISIS in an interview with the 2nd International Congress of 17000 Iranian Terror Victims’ correspondent.
Regarding the fact that thousands of people in the Middle East have fallen victim to
Finian Cunningham, an Irish journalist and media commentator who made a name for himself in writing about the international affairs, was expelled from Bahrain in June 2011 for his critical journalism in which he highlighted human rights violations by the Western-backed regime.
He believes that the western powers and their regional allies’ animosity towards Iran is according to the “an eye for an eye” principle. That is Iranian people toppled the western-backed Pahlavi regime and that is why
In order for the real war on terrorism to takes place in world, it needs a coalition of the countries who fell victim to this sinister phenomenon, said spokesman for the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's Majlis.
Referring to the importance of holding such conferences as the International Congress of 17000 Iranian Terror Vcitims, Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said “given the Western propaganda campaign against Iran which portrays it as a state sponsor of terrorism and the
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States is masterminding terrorism.
“The US is the designer and supporter of terrorism," said the Leader in a meeting with Iranian officials and ambassadors of Muslim countries in Tehran on Saturday.
Ayatollah Khamenei added that the US has formed and backed the most dangerous terrorist groups such as the ISIL Takfiri militants, saying, “It is supporting the fake terrorist Zionist regime.”
Ayatollah Khamenei
Dr. Haytham Mouzahem is a Lebanese analyst and researcher specializing in Middle Eastern and Islamic affairs. He is a regular contributor to Al Hayat, Albalad and the Atlantic Post, as well as Arab political and academic journals. He has also written for The Daily Star, Almustaqbal, Albayan, An-Nahar and Jane’s Intelligence Review. Mouzahem has published two books: The Israeli Labor Party, 1968-1999 (Arabic, 2001) and The Conflict over the Middle East (2013), and contributed to six others. Two
Referring to the right to veto as the law of jungle, an Iranian author and researcher said “the US has international organizations under its thumb.”
“I believe the Islamophobia stems from the fact that the Islamic Republic has disrupted all the western equations,” said Dr. Mohammad-Hossein Rajabi-Davani who lectures in Islamic history. “Following the Renaissance and Industrial Revolution, the west found superiority in political, military, economic and technological aspects especially over the
Mehdi Abrishamchi, deputy leader of the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as MEK, PMOI and NCRI), went on trial in France on terrorism and financial corruption charges.
The court hearing for MKO's number two was held in a Paris court on May 7 while a large number of former MKO members staged a sit-in outside the courtroom in support of Abrishamchi's trial, demanding his imprisonment.
The MKO, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and
The controversial leader of an Iranian dissidents group was called to Capitol Hill to lend her expertise about the Islamic State lawmakers. Her testimony Wednesday showed she was only interested in talking about Iran.
Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Iranian dissidents organization Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), a group that until 2012 was list on the State Department’s terror list, insisted Tehran was the root of the Islamic State’s power. In prepared testimony, she mentioned Iran 135 times. By
A member of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission says fighting terrorism is not restricted to a particular region and all the countries should play an effective role in this way.
Mohammad Hasan Asafari said Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the victims of terrorism in the world and all walks of life in Iran have fell victim to the terrorist acts under the support of the United States.
“We’ve suffered the most from the terrorists and we’ve paid a high price for
Iranian professor and expert on state terrorism says the Zionist regime is a clear cut example of terrorism.
Professor Reza Simbar who received his PhD in International Relations from the University of New South Wales, says despite the Zionists crimes against Palestinians “nobody dares to issue a statement” against them.
“When it comes to us,” he added, “we will become terrorist, because they are at odds with us and we have a say in the region.”
Asked about the necessity of convergence
Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade announced that a controversial Iranian exile opposition figure would be testifying via video uplink at a hearing on the Islamic State, known as ISIS. What does the witness, Maryam Rajavi, a co-leader of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), have to say about the subject at hand?
Rajavi’s written testimony, a copy of which was obtained by The Nation, focuses on an unexpected way of bringing ISIS to heel: by
A House panel's invitation to the leader of Mujahedin-e Khalq group has caused a furious backlash from former State Department officials who refuse to testify along with her.
Former ambassador to Syria Robert Ford and ex-counterterrorism coordinator Daniel Benjamin told Al-Monitor that they did not want to give a platform to the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), a group that the United States considered a terrorist organization until three years ago. Ford said he would not testify at the same time as
Describing Iran as the major victim of terrorism, secretary of the International Congress of 17000 Iranian Terror Victims said the International Congress of 17000 Iranian Terror Victims is going to be held on August 31 which marks the anniversary of the martyrdom of former Iranian president, Mohammad Ali Rajaei, and his prime minister, Mohammasd Javad Bahonar.
“From the very beginning of the Revolution, our country has suffered many terrorist attacks,” Seyed Mohammad Hasheminejad, adding, “One
A senior Fox News correspondent said it is Saudi Arabia that poses far more danger to the United States and the West than Iran.
Geraldo Rivera joined Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor and battled with Eric Bolling over his insistence that it is Saudi Arabia, not Iran, that represents “the gravest threat” to the United States.
"I think Saudi Arabia is the fount of all evil," Rivera said, "and Sunni Muslim extremists funded by elements of the Saudi royal family are more dangerous than Iran.
Russia’s foreign minister says the emergence of the ISIL Takfiri terrorists stems from the United States’ foreign policy in the Middle East, but Washington denies its role in the formation of the group.
Although Moscow has called on the UN Security Council to include ISIL in its list of terrorist organizations, the United States has “categorically” rejected the proposal, claiming that ISIL is similar to the al-Qaeda militant group rather than an independent structure, Sergei Lavrov said on
Manuel Galiana Ros, Spanish researcher and the author of the books “The Zionist lobby in Spain” and “The Global Crisis” described Wahhabi jihadism as a “fake Islamic ideology” created by new world order to “to destroy Islam from inside.” Following is an approximate transcription of our interview with him.
Over the past 35 years, more than 17000 people have lost their lives in terrorist operations conducted inside the Islamic Republic of Iran by western backed terrorist groups such as the
The managing editor of Veterans Today from Atlanta says the number of Iranian terror victims is “in effect almost six 9/11’s,” but these attacks never got enough coverage in international media.
Jim W. Dean added that even now, very few people know the scale of the Iranians who were killed in terrorist acts. “I would image your maimed casualties would also be high, and those statistics should (be) publicized as well.”
He went on to say that despite this great number of terror victims, “Iran
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) disbanded a terrorist cell in the Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province on Monday morning, killing all its members.
"On Monday morning, a terrorist group affiliated to the foreign spy agencies was disbanded in Qasr-e Qand and Nikshahr regions in Southeastern Iran with the decisive action of the forces deployed at the IRGC Ground Force base in the region, and all its (the terrorist group's) members were killed," the public relations