Iran’s envoy to the United Nations (UN) has described terror threats in the Middle East as the root cause of the ongoing refugee crisis in the world, saying the crisis will not be settled as long as countries fail to effectively root out terrorism and extremism.
Gholam-Ali Khoshroo, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the world body, made the remarks on Monday during a UN General Assembly meeting on “global awareness of the tragedies of irregular migrants in the Mediterranean
The United Nations’ special rapporteur for human rights and counter-terrorism is to warn the UN that states are increasingly using national security as a pretext for clamping down on human rights groups.
In a speech to the general assembly in New York on Monday, Ben Emmerson QC, a senior British lawyer, will warn that counter-terrorism initiatives are increasingly being used to “stifle legitimate opposition and to choke public interest and human rights organisations around the world.”
In an
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
A series of suicide bombings in and around the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri has killed 34 people, most of them at a mosque that was targeted during evening prayers, the National Emergency Management Agency said Friday.
The agency said a total of 49 people were wounded. There has been no claim of responsibility.
The first bombing happened Thursday evening as worshippers gathered at a mosque for evening prayers. According to Mohammed Kanar, the coordinator for NEMA in northeast Nigeria
Two explosions at a peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara have killed at least 95 people and injured 245, according to officials.
TV footage showed scenes of panic and people lying on the ground covered in blood, amid protest banners.
The blasts took place near the city's central train station as people gathered for a march organised by leftist groups.
The attack is the deadliest ever of its kind on Turkish soil.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced three days of national
Iran has, in the strongest terms, condemned as “inhumane and un-Islamic” the ruthless killing of a Jordanian pilot by the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham on Wednesday said all those sponsoring terrorist groups must be held accountable for the tragedy and similar crimes.
Underlining the need to put an end to double standards on terrorism, Afkham called for a firm response to all acts of crimes committed by the ISIL terrorist group.
The Iranian
An Iranian mother has written a letter to sympathize with the mother of the Japanese freelance journalist, Kenji Goto Jogo, held captive by ISIL militants, saying the terrorist group’s policies have nothing to do with Islam.
In a recent video posted online, ISIL militants showed the Japanese captive, saying he would be killed unless Jordan released a female militant.
The video shows Goto holding the photo of a dead body allegedly belonging to Haruna Yukawa, another Japanese hostage that had
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned the terrorist attack in Paris, saying any terrorist act against the innocent people has nothing to do with the Islamic teachings.
Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham also said abusing freedom of expression and insulting religious values and symbols are “unacceptable”.
“Such behaviors are continuation of unprecedented extremism and physical and mental violence-seeking over the past decade, which have been developed at the international level
Iran’s foreign ministry spokeswoman on Tuesday condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
“This is a totally un-Islamic and inhumane action,” Marziyeh Afkham said, adding that terrorism, extremism and putting innocent people’s lives at risk in any form and with any purpose are reprehensible.
She also expressed sympathy with the government and nation of Pakistan, especially the bereaved families of victims.
Afkham further said
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
An Iranian lawmaker says Saudi Arabia has been the key factor behind the recent abduction of five Iranian border guards, who were then taken to Pakistan.
In a Saturday interview, Mansour Haqiqatpour, a member of Iran’s Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, pointed to Saudi Arabia’s role in the bombing of the Iranian Embassy in Lebanon in November 2013, and the abduction of an Iranian diplomat in Yemen last July and said, “Similar to the two previous
A French group which warns against violent cults recently faced the dangers of the Mujaheedin-e Khalq Organization while they were holding a demonstration against the terrorist group.
A French group which warns against violent cults recently faced the dangers of the Mujaheedin-e Khalq Organization, an anti-Iranian terrorist group whose leadership is based just outside of Paris. Association PEACE bravely held a demonstration in the MKO’s hometown, and was quickly confronted by the
Commander of Iran's Basij (volunteer) Force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi blasted the US for its extensive human rights violations, and said Washington is the main advocate of all dictators and terrorist groups in different parts of the world.
“The crimes you are witnessing in all countries ruled by dictators and human-rights-violating rulers are backed by the US,” Naqdi said in a ceremony held at Tehran University on Monday to unveil a Basij report on the violation
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that Saudi Arabia's political and religious ideology of Wahhabism threatens "the whole world."
“President Assad warned during his meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of the threat posed by Wahhabi thinking to all the world, not just to the region,” Syria’s state television reported on Wednesday.
The Syrian president also called on Syrians and other people in the region to confront Wahhabism which jeopardizes the
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has said that the two main principles of the United States policy toward the region are to support terrorism and oppose democracy.
Saeed Jalili made the remarks during a meeting with Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Ershad Ahmadi in Tehran on Tuesday.
Ahmadi arrived in Tehran on Monday to participate in the meeting of the Iran-Afghanistan political consultative committee.
“It has been proved to the international community
The following photos are the last photos of martyr Hossein Qoddusi, before he was died in Karbala due to his injuries during a suicide attack in the Iraqi city.
Iranian cleric, Hojjatol-Islam Hossein Qoddusi, was wounded in the holy city of Karbala in March 3, 2013, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in an area between major holy shrines in the Iraqi holy city. He was rushed to hospital, but died of his severe injuries.
The suicide bomber, identified as an engineer who
A suicide bomber blew himself up yesterday in an area between major holy shrines in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala, killing at least 2 and wounding some 10 people.
The suicide bomber, identified as an engineer infiltrated into the bridge construction company working in the area, detonated his explosives yesterday noon between the holy shrine of Imam Hossein and Hazrat Abbas among a crowd of Shia pilgrims, Habilian Association reported.
The Security sources added that all the
A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has been assassinated by suspected Israeli agents on the way from the Syrian capital Damascus to Beirut.
General Hassan Shateri was reportedly killed on Tuesday by unknown gunmen as he was traveling by road from Syria to Lebanon.
Israeli elements have been blamed for the assassination of the IRGC general, who led the Iranian-financed reconstruction projects in the south of Lebanon.
His funeral ceremony will be
Iran's Judiciary Spokesman and Prosecutor-General Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeii said the West's support for the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (the MKO, also known as the MEK, NCR and PMOI) displays that its mottos about respect for human rights are mere words which meet no action.
"How is it possible that the US and Israel as well as some western countries consider themselves as supporters of human rights, while they paved the way for the killing of and damage to
Those female members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) who were residing in Camp Ashraf, the former training center of the group in Iraq, were abused by the MKO ringleaders sexually, a defected member revealed on Monday.
According to a report by Ashraf News website, Zahra Sadat Mir-Baqeri, one of the defected leaders of the MKO, said that she has some information about the sexual abuse of female members by the
Iran’s envoy to the United Nations (UN) has described terror threats in the Middle East as the root cause of the ongoing refugee crisis in the world, saying the crisis will not be settled as long as countries fail to effectively root out terrorism and extremism.
Gholam-Ali Khoshroo, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the world body, made the remarks on Monday during a UN General Assembly meeting on “global awareness of the tragedies of irregular migrants in the Mediterranean
