The secretary of the Guardian Council, Iran's top supervisory body, says the Islamic Republic is "the biggest victim" of international terrorism, slamming the so-called human rights defenders for turning blind eye to it.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati made the remarks on Wednesday, a day after the country marked its National Day of Fight Against Terrorism.
"Iran has suffered more from terrorist acts than any other country," the senior official said, "while those who lay claim to defending human rights
The office of the vice-president of the Iranian Judiciary for International Affairs has issued a statement on the occasion of Counter-Terrorism Day in Iran, calling on all governments to stop exempting terrorists throughout the globe.
Kazem Gharibabadi is the Vice-President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and the Secretary-General of the High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The office warned that following more than seven decades of ratification of the Charter
Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres says the world body is committed to preserving and protecting the rights of the victims and survivors of various acts of terrorism in the country, pledging to further support attempts aimed at justice-seeking for them.
Guterres made the remarks in a message read out by the director of the United Nations Information Center in Tehran, Inger Marie Vennize, as she took part in a conference in the Iranian capital on the occasion of the
Iraqi security sources on Wednesday announced that 17 ISIL terrorists were detained in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
The terrorists were detained in different areas of the Kurdistan region including Sulaymaniyah and Chamchamal.
Seven of the detained terrorists were promoting ISIL terrorist activities through social media, according to the reports.
The reports added that the terrorists were planning on assassinating several Peshmerga officers and bombing some bases.
These terrorists also played a role
Sharmahd, the ringleader of the Tondar (Thunder), a terrorist group accused of committing terror attacks and anti-revolutionary operations against Iran, confessed to his sabotage acts in a Tehran court.
At the beginning of the 7th session of the trial, the judge read the indictment against Jamshid Sharmahd in the presence of the defendant’s lawyer.
He then ordered Sharmahd to stand in the dock and explain how the group plotted the bombing of a religious gathering that killed several people
Iran has strongly denounced US airstrikes in eastern Syria, terming it the violation of the war-ravaged Arab country's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani, in a statement on Wednesday, described the latest American aggression in the eastern Syrian province of Dayr al-Zawr as a "terrorist act" against the people of Syria.
In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, American warplanes carried out fresh airstrikes in Dayr al-Zawr, only a
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says terrorism in the West Asia and Africa is a product of interference by extra-regional countries.
“Interference by some extra-regional countries is the reason behind formation of some terrorist groups in the West Asia region and Africa,” Amir-Abdollahian said during a joint press conference with his Malian counterpart Abdoulaye Diop in Bamako on Tuesday.
“We are of the opinion that instrumental application of terrorism should be set aside and
Some members of families of martyrs of terrorist attacks in Iran called Monday on Europe to stop supporting the terrorist grouplet of Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) that has assassinated 17,000 Iranians.
Zohreh Elahian, chairman of Iran's Majlis (Parliament) human right committee, recalled the martyrs families' demand at a conference held in Tehran to mark the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism on August 21.
Director of the United Nations Information
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian urges Sweden to respect the "basic rights" of Hamid Nouri, an Iranian national who has been wrongfully jailed and convicted by Stockholm.
Meeting with the Swedish Ambassador to Tehran, Mattias Lentz, on Sunday, the Iranian top diplomat demanded that Stockholm allow Nouri to exercise his rights to seeking medical assistance and facilitate his calls with his next of kin.
Nouri was arrested upon arrival in Sweden at Stockholm Airport in November 2019 and was
The Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi expressed Iran's readiness to cooperate with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in the fight against terrorism.
In a meeting hosted by Uzbekistan, the Iranian Minister of Interior Ahmad Vahidi said that the Islamic Republic is fully ready to cooperate with the SCO member countries in the fight against terrorism and extremism.
In his speech, Vahidi pointed out that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a victim of international terrorism itself, and
An Iranian Judiciary official made clear the country’s seriousness about putting terrorist groups on trial.
In a meeting with the families of a number of Iranian victims of assassination attacks, Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's deputy Judiciary chief for international affairs and secretary of the country's High Council for Human Rights, emphasized that the Judiciary is very serious about taking action against terrorist groups and their activities.
He said the High Council for Human Rights’ top
Hamid Nouri, a former official of Iran detained in Sweden on false charges, has been held in solitary confinement for over three years, his son Majid Nouri said on Tuesday.
The son also indicated that his family had recently been kept in the dark about his circumstances.
"My father has not been able to contact his family… and he has been held in solitary confinement for 1,000 days," Majid Nouri told reporters.
In November 2019, Hamid Nouri was detained upon arrival at Stockholm Airport. The
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned the United States against using the language of force when addressing the Iranian nation.
Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a late Saturday tweet in apparent reaction to recent accusations leveled against Iran by the US about a fictional plot to kill the former President Donald Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton.
“History ought to have taught the US that language of threat against Iran and Iranians achieves nothing,” Iran’s
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani says making a fuss around the fake story of a plot to assassinate former notorious US national security advisor John Bolton will not help Washington whitewash its own crimes.
“Fabricating stories [regarding] a politically bankrupt element, a known terrorist & a coup plotter against independent states, is a US deceptive bid to scape from int’l responsibilities,” Kan’ani wrote in a post on his Twitter account on Friday.
“Such fanfares won’t
A right-wing American magazine acknowledged the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) is a terrorist group in nature urging American authorities to stop supporting this group.
According to the Habilian, the "Washington Examiner", a right-wing magazine in America, acknowledged that the MEK is a the terrorist group asking the American authorities to stop supporting this group.
The Washington Examiner magazine, which is one of the media close to neoconservatives in America, explained in this analysis
Iran has marked the 24th death anniversary of eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist who lost their lives in a terrorist attack in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
In a statement issued on Monday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry paid tribute to the diplomats and the journalist who were killed in Afghanistan back in 1998 and reiterated its condemnation of the “unforgettable crime.”
The ministry also demanded measures by Kabul to clarify the circumstances that led to the incident.
The nine Iranian
Iran has strongly condemned the brutal attack of the "apartheid Israeli regime" on Gaza and the killing of defenseless people and a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad movement, saying the Palestinian people and groups have the right to respond to Tel Aviv's terrorist moves.
"It is the legal right of the Palestinian people and resistance groups to act and defend themselves in the face of the aggression and terrorist moves of the Zionist regime," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani strongly condemned Friday's terrorist explosions in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
Kan'ani expressed deep regret over the martyrdom and injury of a large number of innocent Afghan citizens in terrorist explosions on Frida and strongly condemned these terrorist attacks.
At least 10 people died after a bomb hidden in a cart went off on Friday in the Sar-e-Kariz area, Kabul. The blast occurred near a mosque in the Shiite neighborhood. No one has so far
The ringleader of Al-Ahwaziya separatist and terrorist group conceded at his trial on Sunday that he has been receiving support from Stockholm and the Swedish intelligence agency.
Speaking during a court hearing in the Iranian capital of Tehran, Farajollah Chaab nicknamed Habib Asyoud said the Swedish officials gave him a device and told him to push a button thereon in case he was in danger, and added that they told him they would rush to rescue him upon his pushing of the button.
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Secretary General of Habilian Association said that Operation Mersad was an indicator of people’s hatred for the Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist cult.
According to Habilian, in an interview with Mizan Online News Agency on the anniversary of the operation Mersad, Seyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad, Secretary General of Habilian Association, said: "The MEK terrorist group is aware of the magnitude of Iranian people's disgust with them."
Pointing out that operation Mersad is significant from several
The secretary of the Guardian Council, Iran's top supervisory body, says the Islamic Republic is "the biggest victim" of international terrorism, slamming the so-called human rights defenders for turning blind eye to it.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati made the remarks on Wednesday, a day after the country marked its National Day of Fight Against Terrorism.
"Iran has suffered more from terrorist acts than any other country," the senior official said, "while those who lay claim to defending human rights
