A second person behind the terrorist attack on the Shah-e Cheragh shrine in Shiraz was detained on Sunday night, Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatibzadeh announced on Monday.
“Last night we succeeded to identify and arrest the second person involved in the Shah-e Cheragh terrorist incident,” Khatibzadeh said in a national congress of the Civil Defense Organization.
A terrorist attacked pilgrims in the shrine on October 26. The attack took place at evening prayers.
The Daesh Takfiri terrorist
Tens of thousands of people attended a funeral procession held on Saturday morning for the victims of a terrorist attack on the holy shrine of Shah-e Cheragh in the south-central city of Shiraz.
Also, a number of political and high-ranking military officials from the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and Army, Police as well as officials of Fars province participated in the ceremony.
The terrorist attack in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province which is also considered Iran’s cultural
Following a devastating attack in Shiraz on Wednesday evening claimed by Daesh, Iranians from all walks of life poured onto the streets on Friday to condemn this vicious act of terrorism and express their solidarity with the martyrs and reiterate their support for national unity.
At 17:45 local time, just before the Maghrib prayer in Shiraz (capital of Fars province), a terrorist entered the Shah-e-Cheragh shrine and opened fire on innocent pilgrims. The terrorist used a Kalashnikov rifle
Following the heinous terrorist attack on the sacred Shrine of Ahmed Ibn Musa (Shah Cheragh) in Shiraz, which led to the martyrdom of a number of innocent compatriots, Habilian Association (Families of Iranian Victims of Terrorism) issued a message of condolence.
The full text of this message is as follows:
In the name of God
Last night, hands of criminal terrorists were once again stained with the blood of innocents, and dozens of pilgrims and visitors of the holy shrine of Ahmad Ibn Musa Ibn
After the deadly terrorist attack in Iran's Shiraz, for which ISIL claimed responsibility, different countries, groups, and politicians have condemned it and offered their condolences to the Iranian nation and government.
Syria condemns cowardly terror attack
Condemning the terrorist and cowardly act, the Syrian Foreign Ministry announced that this incident showed that terrorism is one of America's official means to target the stability and security of other countries with the aim of making them
Iran's President Ebrahim Raeisi has says the Islamic Republic will deliver a crushing response to those behind the Wednesday terrorist attack on the holy shrine of Shah Cheragh in the country’s southwestern city of Shiraz.
“This vicious act will definitely not go unanswered. The country’s security and law enforcement forces, having identified the root causes of this heinous crime, will deliver a decisive response to its architects and operatives,” which will make them regret their act, the
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday issued a statement declaring sanctions against a number of British individuals and institutes for their support of terrorism, inciting violence, and violating human right.
The Foreign Ministry announced the embargoes are a "tit for tat" move against the sanctions that have been imposed by some European countries on Iran, Press TV reported.
The statement went on to name three entities and nine individuals that have been blacklisted under the Islamic
Iran’s top human rights official has slammed the European Union’s double standard toward the issue of human rights, as the bloc slapped new sanctions on the Islamic Republic under the pretext of rights violation.
Secretary General of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi said that the European Union imposes sanctions on protectors of the Iranian people’s security and safety in the face of recent Western-backed riots, but harbors the terrorists who have “murdered 17,000 innocent
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian urged the Iraq's central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to adopt measures to counter terrorist groups based in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
The Secretary of the Supreme Security Council of Iraq Qasim Al-Araji, who is visiting Tehran at the dead of a high-ranking security delegation, met with Amir Abdollahian on Saturday evening.
During the meeting, the Iranian foreign minister pointed to the expanding relations
A top Iranian military official on Saturday vowed that the Islamic Republic would continue its defensive operations against the U.S.- and Israeli-backed separatist terror organizations hiding out in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, close to Iran’s northwestern borders.
Since the success of Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, the separatists, who are "backed by the U.S. and other enemies," have been operating in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, according to Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff
Collaboration is essential in "new Asia" in order to build an endogenous pattern to overcome security, economic, and cyber threats, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi suggests.
Raisi made the comments in a speech at the sixth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) held in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Thursday.
The President highlighted, “The Islamic Republic of Iran will definitely be a steadfast partner for continuing to pursue and strengthen multilateralism based on
Iran has written a letter to the UN Security Council regarding the attacks on the positions of the terrorist adversary groups in northern Iraq.
In a letter to the President of the UN Security Council, Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations said that considering the destructive and riot-fomenting actions of terrorist groups in northern Iraq against the people and national security of Iran and their disrespect for repeated warnings and opposition, Iran had no choice but to exercise
The Iranian government’s spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi has warned that riot provides hired terrorists with the best opportunity to wreak havoc in Iran.
Bahadori Jahromi wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday: Riot is the best opportunity for the hired terrorists to endanger security, unity, life and assets of the Iranian people.
He also expressed condolences on martyrdom of some security forces as well as civilians in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, in southeastern Iran.
Some rioters
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced that Friday armed attack on the security forces left three martyrs and 32 others injured.
According to the public relation department of the Force of the Southeast IRGC, renowned commander Hamid-Reza Hashemi, the deputy head of the information department of the Salman branch of IRGC in Sistan and Baluchestan province, along with Mohammad-Amin Azarshokr and Mohammad-Amin Arefi were martyred in terrorist raid on military forces following the
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says the United States and the United Kingdom were “directly” involved in the recent riots across the country.
Dozens of terrorists affiliated with the Zionist regime and anti-revolution groups have been detained during the recent days of unrest, the ministry said in a Friday statement.
The ministry underscored the behind-the-scene circumstances surrounding the foreign-backed riots that followed the death of a 22-year-old woman from Kurdistan, named Mahsa Amini, who
Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amirabdollahian has warned that terrorism and extremism are still the main challenges in the Middle East.
Amirabdollahian made the remarks in a meeting with Csaba Kőrösi, the president of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, on Tuesday.
The Iranian FM pointed to the fact that the Islamic Republic attaches great importance to the UN General Assembly, expressing hope that the current session will provide an opportunity to exchange views on
Tehran's prosecutor said indictments have been issued against 14 persons in connection with the assassination of prominent Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was murdered in November 2020.
The prosecutor of Tehran said warrants and indictments have been issued against 14 people in the case of assassination of Fakhrizadeh, the senior nuclear and defense scientist who was assassinated in a small city east of Tehran on November 27, 2020.
Ali Salehi said the 14 people have been charged with
The commander of the East Azerbaijan Border Guard announced the dismantling of a terrorist team with weapons and ammunition at the border of Khodaafarin.
The terrorist team that intended to conduct acts of sabotage inside the country was arrested and a significant volume of weapons and ammunition were confesicated from them by the border police forces of East Azerbaijan Province last night, according to Mohammad Ahmadi.
Two terrorists were arrested and two vehicles were seized from them by the
The Iranian President said in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly that the Iranian nation, a victim of terrorism, has today become the true vanguard of the fight against terrorism in the world.
According to Habilian, the Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Raeisi in his speech at the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York, criticized the US government’s support for terrorist groups saying that the then Iranian President Mohammad Ali Rajaei who had stood on this podium over
The Iranian President said in a conversation with Al Jazeera that ISIS who commits crimes in the region is implementing the same methods as the MeK used to carry out in the first years of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.
According to Habilian, the Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Raeisi in a conversation with Al Jazeera criticized US hegemony and hostility toward Iran saying that Americans supported the MeK as they provided financial, propaganda and information support to Saddam and the
A second person behind the terrorist attack on the Shah-e Cheragh shrine in Shiraz was detained on Sunday night, Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatibzadeh announced on Monday.
“Last night we succeeded to identify and arrest the second person involved in the Shah-e Cheragh terrorist incident,” Khatibzadeh said in a national congress of the Civil Defense Organization.
A terrorist attacked pilgrims in the shrine on October 26. The attack took place at evening prayers.
The Daesh Takfiri terrorist
