Nahid Fatehi Karjou was born on June 25, 1965, in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. Her father was an employee of City Hall and her mother, a descendent of the Holy Prophet, was a housewife. Nahid was a kind and caring child and abandoned school after finishing primary school.
Given that the adolescence of Nahid coincided with the Iranian people’s uprising against the Pahlavi regime, she also joined the revolutionaries to further the movement of Imam Khomeini. Even as a child, she was
Research concludes it ‘was probable’ that Menwith Hill was used to assist in the controversial assassination
The RAF intelligence base at Menwith Hill near Harrogate, north Yorkshire, is the world’s largest electronic monitoring station. Photograph: Mark Waugh/Alamy
Campaigners have called on ministers to explain whether the secretive Menwith Hill intelligence base in Yorkshire is involved in recent drone strike assassinations, after the publication of a report that raises questions about
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said in a meeting with IRGC Qods Force commander that if the special role played by the revered and champion martyr of campaign against terrorism did not exist today "our region would have looked different".
Qods Force Commander Brigadier General Esmail Qa’ani attending the Foreign Ministry congratulated Hossein Amirabdollahian for starting his work as the Islamic Republic of Iran foreign minister.
Amirabdollahian in the meeting further stressed that
The Iranian intelligence forces dismantled a terrorist team, a statement by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry said on Tuesday.
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that a terrorist team that was supported and guided by the spy services of adversary countries was identified and demolished.
The statement said that the terrorist team was going to carry out acts of sabotage inside the country but was targeted before they could carry out their mission.
The ministry
A senior Iranian legislator blamed the western states, especially the US, for the spread of terrorism in the region, and expressed the hope that the advocates of terrorist groups in Syria would change their policies and approaches.
“Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, the Islamic Republic of Iran logically believed that the problems in Syria don’t have military solutions and the crisis in the country can be ended politically using the domestic potentials and capacities in Syria,”
Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart Suleyman Soylu stressed fighting the unbridled terrorism in the region and controlling trans-regional powers’ interference.
Vahidi said that the Iranian government’s has adopted good-neighborliness and promoting cooperation between neighbors as its definite policy.
He described Iran and Turkey as two important powers in the region which play vital role in establishing peace and stability.
He reiterated that
Iranian intelligence forces identified and dismantled an anti-security group in southwestern Iran on Sunday evening.
According to the public relations of the General Intelligence Office of Khuzestan Province, the intelligence forces on Sunday evening managed to identify and arrest an anti-security group that intended to conduct acts of sabotage in this province.
Accordingly, dozens of weapons were seized in the operation, which was done last night in the southwestern border region of
Mahmud Abiz was born as the third child of a family of seven in Zahedan. His father worked at the post office and his mother was a housewife. He finished his school studies and did such activities as wood carving along with his studies. As an intelligent boy, Mahmud managed to memorize some sections of the Quran and even fancied memorizing the entire Quran.
Alireza, the last child of the Abiz family and the younger sibling of Mahmud, was born in 1999. He was an energetic boy from the very
Director-General of the Peace and International Security Department at Iranian Foreign Ministry Reza Najafi called on the UN to take firm position with regard to assassinating nuclear scientists and Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani.
Speaking in a meeting with Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate Michèle Coninsx, Najafi stressed solving the misunderstandings regarding double standards adopted by the United
Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Raisi says that terrorism has its roots in various crises such as identity and economy and it will not be solved through an arbitrary attitude.
Addressing the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Raisi said, “The fact that modern lives have become devoid of meaning and spirituality as well as the spread of poverty, discrimination and oppression have helped the rise of terrorism.”
“The increasing growth of indigenous terrorism in the
Koroush Firouzi was born in April 1969 in the village of Kotak in Kerman province. His father was a hunter and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution he became a farmer. Koroush was the third son of a devout Muslim family. His life was founded upon the teachings of the holy Quran. He went to a primary school in the city of Raber, Kerman and then moved to Shiraz to continue his education in the middle school along with his brother who was studying in the University of Shiraz.
After the Iraqi
Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Raisi underlined that his country’s foreign policy has always been based on supporting multilateralism and active participation in international organizations to confront regional and global challenges.
President Raisi made the remarks in an address to the 21st Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tajikistan’s capital of Dushanbe on Friday.
“The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has always been based on active participation in
Yemen's Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf dismissed a US accusation that mentioned Yemen as a great terror threat.
Earlier, the director of the US National Intelligence Avril Haines said the greatest threat to the US from international terrorists comes from nations such as Yemen, Somalia, Syria and Iraq, with Afghanistan further down the priority list after the two-decade American troop presence ended, presstv reported.
Yemen’s Foreign Minister Sharaf stressed that Yemen will never be a safe
Iranian security forces identified and disbanded a terrorist cell affiliated to the foreign spy agencies, the intelligence ministry announced in a statement on Wednesday.
The security and intelligence forces dismantled the terrorist team in an operation while it was attempting to carry out acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks against Iran’s vital and sensitive centers, the statement said.
It added that more information about the terrorist team will be provided to people in the near
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (L) hosts a meeting of the special committee on the legal and international pursuit of General Qassem Soleimani’s assassination, attended by the general’s daughter, Zeinab Soleimani (R), and representatives of relevant judicial, political, security, legal and military bodies.
Iran’s new foreign minister has pledged to legally pursue the case of the US assassination of its legendary anti-terror commander Qassem Soleimani and bring the
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani called for the immediate disarmament and expulsion from Iraq of the terrorist groups stationed in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
In a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Tehran on Sunday, Shamkhani said the increasing moves by terrorist groups based in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region are detrimental to security in regions along the two countries common border, emphasizing that such groups must be rapidly disarmed
Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi said on Thursday that the next round of the meeting of the foreign ministers of countries bordering Afghanistan will be held in Tehran in the near future.
Ravanchi said this in line with Iran’s utmost efforts to help all Afghan groups to solve their disagreements through dialogue.
On Wednesday, Iran hosted a virtual summit of the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and
Sakineh Sanadgol was born in 1981 in Southeastern Sistan Baluchistan Province. Having finished his higher education, she married Mohammad Yaser Pordel. Their union was blessed with a child in 2006. Following the birth of their first child, Sanadgol and Pordel, both teachers, changed their working hours in a way that they could take care of their baby in shifts.
Their second child was born on October 9, 2010, and Sakineh named it Sana. Sanadgol used to participate in the mourning ceremonies
For the music lover, it was nearly three hours at gunpoint, wondering if he would become yet another body on the floor of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.
For the grieving mother, the night of carnage robbed her of her son and tarnished her view of the vibrant neighborhood they both loved.
For the French president, a celebration of the national soccer team transformed into sleepless days of facing down a shocking extremist attack.
Survivors of Islamic State’s coordinated attacks in
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi says the world must hold the United States to account for supporting terrorism fomented by the Daesh Takfiri group and other new forms of this ominous phenomenon.
Raeisi made the remarks in a Sunday phone call with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, during which he welcomed expansion of Tehran-Paris relations in all areas, particularly economy and trade.
Elaborating on the efforts made by countries in the region and elsewhere in the world to fight