Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted and destroyed positions of terrorist groups operating near the country’s western borders in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
According to a statement published by Sepah News, the IRGC’s Ground Force launched the attack on Wednesday morning. It did not elaborate on the type of the attack, but Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported earlier that the terrorist bastions had been targeted by artillery
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian stressed Tehran's continued cooperation with Damascus in the fight against the terrorist groups and extremism.
"Visit by President Assad and his fruitful meetings with Leader and President Raisi open new chapter in Iran-Syria strategic ties," Amir Abdollahian wrote on his Twitter page after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Tehran on Sunday.
He added that Tehran and Damascus are "determined to enhance our bilateral relationship with
Iran and Syria achieved a great achievement in the fight against terrorism, and the war is not over until the defeat of ISIL terrorism, the Iranian envoy to Damascus said, stressing that regional states are Iran's real allies.
Speaking in an interview with Lebanese Almanar TV, the Iranian Ambassador to Damascus said, "Syria and Iran have strategic relations in some areas. We have always sympathized with Syria, and this strategic relationship is based on our identity and common relations."
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced that its forces have disbanded a terrorist cell affiliated with the Komala terrorist grouplet in the western province of Kurdistan.
In a statement on Thursday, the Intelligence Ministry said its forces in Kurdistan Province have identified and arrested the members of an “organizational cell” of the Komala terrorist grouplet ahead of the International Quds Day.
Pointing to the dark record of the Komala members in committing acts of terrorism and
A suspected female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Karachi on Tuesday, police and officials said, drawing strong condemnation from Beijing, in the first major attack this year against nationals of long-time ally China working in Pakistan.
The three were among passengers on a minibus returning to Karachi university after a lunch break when the bomb exploded at the entrance to the university's Confucius Institute, killing the Chinese teachers and a Pakistani national, police
Following a series of criminal terrorist explosions in schools and mosques across Afghanistan, which have killed and injured a large number of Afghans, Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's President and chief of
Supreme National Security Council, issued a message warning about the spread of threats against the Afghan people and nations in the region.
While strongly denouncing the recent terrorist acts in Afghanistan, Raisi emphasized the importance of ensuring the safety of all Afghans, particularly at
A member of the Iranian embassy in Kabul condemned the recent terrorist attacks in various parts of Afghanistan.
In an interview with Iran Press, Akbar Fallahnejad stated that terrorist acts in Afghanistan show enemies' resentment toward the Afghan people.
He noted that the Iranian government and people have always sympathized with Afghanistan's oppressed and honorable nation and rushed to their aid during the recent terrorist attacks.
Fallahnejad also called on Afghan officials and people
Deputy Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi said that her country is deeply worried about the recent repeated terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, and called for the punishment of perpetrators.
The ISIL's presence in Afghanistan has intensified terrorist attacks in the country, Ershadi said, addressing the High-Level Briefing on the National Strategy and Action Plan of Tajikistan on Countering Terrorism and Extremism 2021-2025 on Friday.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution wrote a message of condolences to the families of the martyrs of the recent terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a message condoles to the families of the martyrs of the recent terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
The message was read by the Deputy Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kabul and the accompanying delegation who met with the families of the martyrs of the recent terrorist
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Tuesday condemned the terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
Khatibzadeh in a message on his Twitter account on Tuesday condemned the terrorist attacks in Afghanistan which led to the killing of more than 20 students.
He called on the Afghan authorities to identify and punish the perpetrators of this terrorist act.
At least two powerful explosions ripped through a boys' school in a Shia-dominated neighborhood of Kabul Tuesday, killing more
Iran said Monday that seeking revenge for the United States’ assassination of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Qasem Soleimani is a “basic and definite principle” of the country’s foreign policy.
“It is a definite principle in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran that [those involved in Soleimani's assassination] must be brought to justice,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said.
He made the remarks in response to a question on whether Iran
Iran has transferred its centrifuge machines to a safe location nearly one year after an act of sabotage at TESA Karaj Complex, a centrifuge component manufacturing workshop near Tehran, damaged cameras at the site, a spokesperson said.
"Given their high significance, centrifuge machines were moved to a safer location and are now in operation," the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi, said in an exclusive interview with Iran's al-Alam TV on
The commander of the Kirkuk Joint Operations Command announced that the ISIL terrorists' largest base in the Wadi al-Shay area of Kirkuk province was destroyed on the third day of the Iron Hammer operation.
Lieutenant-General Ali Al-Fariji said that a number of weapons, equipment, ammunition, and explosives belonging to ISIL terrorists were confiscated in the operation.
The Iraqi military destroyed this important ISIL base on the third day of the Iron Hammer operation in Kirkuk province.
The greatest risks to the security of women in unstable West Asia, according to Iran's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, are occupation, terrorism, and foreign invasions, and women will continue to be the subject of abuse unless such threats are eradicated.
Zahra Ershadi made the statements in her speech on Wednesday to the Security Council's high-level open debate on the topic of “Conflict-related sexual violence: accountability as prevention — ending cycles of sexual
Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday flatly rejected the US State Department’s annual report on human rights, stressing that such repetitive, unfounded, politically-charged and meddlesome reports won’t give them legitimacy.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh made the comment in response to the US State Department's annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released on Tuesday, saying the publication of repetitive and baseless reports would lend no legitimacy to
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian offered concern over extremist and takfiri terrorists’ activities in Burkina Faso and in the West African region.
Amir Abdollahian made the remarks in a phone call with Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Olivia Rouamba.
Referring to the importance of the African continent in Iran’s foreign policy, he stressed Iran's serious determination to develop relations with the continent, including Burkina Faso.
He also stressed Iran’s readiness to hold
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan issued a statement in response to the terrorist attack on three Iranian clerics in the courtyard of the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad.
Salahuddin Rabbani, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated:
Hearing the news of the terrorist attack on three religious scholars in the courtyard of the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad, Islamic Republic of Iran, which resulted in the martyrdom of one and injury of two others, has caused deep
President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi on Wednesday warned against colonial plots meant to sow discord among Muslims and Iranian ethnic groups a day after a terrorist stabbed to death a Shia cleric and wounded two other comrades in the revered shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
Raeisi blamed the attack on the influence of “Takfiri” groups – a term used for Muslim extremists who brand others as apostates.
“Those who showed enmity were from the Takfiri movement,” Raeisi
The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned a terrorist attack on a gathering of people in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat, warning of the enemies’ divisive plots.
In a statement released on Sunday, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh strongly condemned the terrorist attack by Takfiri elements on a gathering of the oppressed people of Herat in a recreational area in Jebril Township of the city that left a large number of Afghan citizens dead and wounded.
He also offered
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi congratulated Islamic nations on the start of the holy month of Ramadan, expressing hope that stronger unity and solidarity within the Muslim community would defeat the divisive moves and Takfiri terrorism.
In separate messages to the leaders of Islamic countries on Saturday, Raisi said, "The scent of Ramadan is coming again so that in this blessed month, the month of the revelation of the Qur'an, where human destinies are determined on a night like Qadr, it
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted and destroyed positions of terrorist groups operating near the country’s western borders in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
According to a statement published by Sepah News, the IRGC’s Ground Force launched the attack on Wednesday morning. It did not elaborate on the type of the attack, but Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported earlier that the terrorist bastions had been targeted by artillery
