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
An Iranian envoy to the United Nations has denounced the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the US as a “serious threat” to the nation’s right to health and have access to medicines.
Zahra Ershadi, deputy permanent representative of Iran to the UN, made the remarks on Tuesday at the 76th General Assembly session on global health and foreign policy.
She emphasized that affordable health services as well as life-saving medicines, vaccines and diagnostic technologies should be available
Emphasizing that security threats facing the Islamic world take a different shape every day and Takfiri terrorism created and supported by the West still claims lives in our region, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and its Members States should confront the sinister phenomenon of terrorism.
Speaking at the 48th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM), which was held in the Pakistani capital
Saudi Arabia provides $ 30 million a month in aid to the People's Mujahedin Organization.
The available statistics show that since the overthrow of the former Iraqi regime, more than 50 percent of the perpetrators of terrorist operations in Iraq are Saudis, Iraqi ambassador Fadhil Al-Shuwaili says. This regime in addition to sending suicide bombers to Iraq, is financing the suicide bombings with the aim of killing more Iraqis.
Emphasizing that Sectarianism in Saudi Arabia is the reason for
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian stressed the efforts made by Iran in line with fighting extremism in the region.
Amir Abdollahian made the remarks in a meeting with special security adviser to Syrian president Ali Mamlouk.
Referring to Iran’s efforts in fighting terrorism and extremism in the region, he stressed the continuation of Iran’s support for the Syrian government and people.
Meanwhile, Mamlouk emphasized Iran’s important role in strengthening regional stability
Tehran is committed to promoting human rights in the world, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said, adding that selective, political approaches will undermine human rights instead of improving it.
Adopting a political and selective approach to human rights not only does not help to promote it but also destroys and undermines human rights, Saeed Khatibzadeh said in reaction to the claims of Javid Rahman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Iran.
Iran has provided detailed
Iraqi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasoul announced that the country's military forces managed to identify and arrest 8 ISIL terrorists.
The ISIL terrorists were arrested during the Iraqi military operations in the different regions of the country including Baghdad, Kirkuk, Diyala, Anbar and Saladin.
Iraqi forces, in coordination with the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Intelligence service in Sulaymaniyah, also arrested two members of the ISIL terrorist group.
Iran has unveiled the Persian copy of a French book that reviews the grisly crimes committed by the notorious anti-Iran terror group, Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization.
A Cult in the Heart of the Republic is the title of the book written by a member of the French Senate, Nathalie Goulet. In her book, she shines a light into the formidable anti-Iran terror group, known as Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, or simply the MKO.
The author tries to warn her fellow Senate members that a full-scale
Deputy Chief of the Iranian Judiciary and Head of the country's Human Rights Headquarters Kazzem Qaribabadi slammed Sweden for sheltering and supporting the anti-Iran terrorist groups.
Qaribabadi firmly criticized Sweden’s support for terrorist groups like Alahwaziah and Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as MEK, NCRI or PMOI), saying that Sweden has turned into the command center of anti-Iran terrorism in Europe.
He also blasted Sweden for allegations and anti-human rights
Following the martyrdom of two Iranian advisors by the Zionist regime in Syria, the Iran UN envoy said that Iran considers itself rightful to defend itself and its interests against the regime’s acts of terrorism.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran reserves its inherent right to self-defense, under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, to respond to such criminal act whenever it deems appropriate,” Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi wrote in letters to the
Outstanding Shia cleric, Sheikh Hamid Shahriari, in his remarks at a webinar on Tahrir Al-Quds (liberation of al-Quds) held on Monday denounced desecration and Takfir in the world of Islam calling the satellite channels working in favor of desecration of Islamic denominations as the tongue of arrogant powers.
Secretary-General of World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought rebuked division, sacrilege, and Takfir (ex-communication) in the world of Islam and said any voice which
Deputy Chief of the Iranian Judiciary and head of the country's Human Rights Headquarters Kazzem Qaribabadi blasted the western states for turning a blind eye to the crimes committed by the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as MEK, NCRI or PMOI) terrorist group and giving immunity to its members.
Qaribabadi made the remarks in a letter addressed to the United Nations secretary-general, the UN high commissioner for human rights, and the UN Human Rights Council as well
In a meeting with his Uzbek counterpart, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council called the prevention of the spread of terrorism and extremism in the region among the two countries' common security concerns and stressed the need to work to counter these threats.
Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Supreme Security Council of our country, who is in Tashkent, met this morning (Wednesday) with "Viktor Mahmudov", National Security Advisor to the President of Uzbekistan.
During the