Who is a terrorist? These rights activists in Tehran say the West does not have a unified definition of the word terrorism.
A case in point they say is the Syrian conflict, where the US views the terrorists as opposition groups who aim to topple the Assad government. And Hezbollah, which is a popular party in Lebanon, is branded by the US as a terrorist organization.
Having lost over 17,000 people in terror attacks, Iran regards itself [as] a major victim of terrorism. Since Iran's 1979 Islamic
The investigation into the complaints of 42 former members of the Mojahedin Khalq against the senior members of the group has begun. In the first court hearing the petitions of these individuals, part of the physical and mental torture committed by the Mojahedin Khalq was stated.
At the beginning of the hearing, Judge Pourmoridi, while announcing the formality of the hearing, said: The defendants, in this case, are the group of Hypocrites (Mujahedin-e Khalq), Massoud Rajavi, Maryam Rajavi, Mehdi
In response to the recent message of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO)’s leader, in which he ordered the group’s terror cells to initiate widespread assassinations throughout Iran, families of Iranian victims of terrorism have written a letter to the international institutions of the European Union calling for legal proceedings against this terrorist group.
“The families of terror victims in Iran call on all international authorities and institutions in the European Union to, along with
Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who served as the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was assassinated in an early January drone strike ordered by former US President Donald Trump. The one-time commander-in-chief claimed the “defensive” strike was conducted in part because the Iranian official was plotting “imminent” attacks against US forces.
A senior Iranian official remarked on Friday that Pope Francis’ trip to Iraq would not have been adequately safe had it not been for the anti-terror
Iran’s top security official warns that the “brutal” US air raid against positions of resistance groups on the Iraqi-Syrian border was part of Washington’s attempts to revive “organized terrorism,” emphasizing that Tehran will never allow a resurgence of Takfiri terrorism in the region.
In a meeting with visiting Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in Tehran on Saturday, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani denounced the recent measures by the United States
Extremist groups, left-wing and right-wing, jihadists and radicals, are taking advantage of the vulnerability created by the pandemic in Europe to spread their message of hate on social networks and the internet, the chief of the EU Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), Catherine De Bolle, has warned.
In an interview with EURACTIV’s partner EFE, De Bolle stressed that this “radicalisation” on the net could have “an impact after the pandemic” in real life.
“What we can see
A panel of UN rights experts said the Biden administration's current review of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility should address "Kafkaesque" human rights violations against the 40 prisoners currently held there, which the experts said includes torture and ill-treatment.
In a statement on Tuesday, the experts noted that many of the remaining detainees are elderly and vulnerable after suffering from "unending deprivation of freedom and related physical and psychological torture" that has
A Notre Dame Law School professor is among the legal experts who condemned U.S. President Joe Biden's bombing of Syria Thursday as a clear violation of international law.
"The United Nations charter makes absolutely clear that the use of military force on the territory of a foreign sovereign state is lawful only in response to an armed attack on the defending state for which the target state is responsible," Mary Ellen O'Connell, a research professor of International Dispute Resolution at the
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday added his voice to a growing chorus of concern and condemnation after President Joe Biden ordered an attack Thursday on Iran-backed militants in eastern Syria without seeking congressional approval.
In a statement, Sanders (I-Vt.) said he was "very concerned" that the U.S. attack—which according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights killed 22 Iraqi Hezbollah and Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces fighters—"puts our country on the path of continuing the Forever
Former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, who will be remembered by many as a defender of the use of “enhanced interrogation” practices on al-Qaida suspects, has recently grabbed worldwide attention after slamming the November killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as “a criminal act.”
The ex-CIA director under the Barack Obama administration, John Brennan, said during the interview with Israel’s Haaretz that late Iranian Top General Qasem Soleimani was his
Russia condemns Washington's airstrike on eastern Syria and sees it as an unacceptable violation of the international law, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik on Friday.
"The attack was launched on the territory of a sovereign nation, a United Nations member state. This is an unacceptable violation of the international law, it it necessary to ascertain whom they attacked," the source said.
Iran assists the Syrian army's fight against the Islamic State terror
The War on Terror is an international military campaign launched by the US following the September 11 attacks. The campaign targets are mostly Sunni Islamic fundamentalist armed groups including Al-Qaeda, Daesh and the Taliban.
An exclusive report by The Daily Beast has revealed that US President Joe Biden has placed lethal US counterterrorism efforts under review while he evaluates the scope of US efforts in the War on Terror.
According to Emily Thorne, the chief spokesperson for the
The Daesh terror group on Monday ambushed a military convoy in eastern Syria, killing at least 26 fighters, including seven Syrian troops, a war monitor said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the early morning ambush in the province of Deir el-Zour came as the convoy combed the area for terrorists, after a string of recent attacks.
"Violent clashes between the two sides led to large human losses," it said, calling the toll from fighting the "largest since the start of
Kazakhstan has repatriated another group of its nationals who have been in Syria alongside terrorist forces. Unlike some EU countries that are reluctant to take back their nationals, Kazakhstan is making the effort to re-integrate them, but also punish those guilty of terrorism.
According to an official communiqué on Thursday (4 February), the country’s National Security Committee, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and with the support of the United States and other
The Iraqi Interior Ministry's intelligence service announced the arrest of 15 ISIL terrorists in the Govornate of Nineveh, northern Iraq.
The Iraqi Interior Ministry's intelligence service said in a statement that 15 ISIL terrorists had been arrested during separate operations in the Nineveh Governorate.
During separate operations for pursuing ISIL terrorist sources and eliminate their remnants, the Nineveh Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Directorate managed to arrest 15 terrorists in separate
The heads of the Human Rights Committee of the Iranian and Iraqi parliaments stressed the need to seriously pursue the case of the assassination of Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the late commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC).
The heads of the Human Rights Committee of the Iranian and Iraqi parliaments stressed the need to seriously pursue the case of the assassination of Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the late commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guard
Just like many Trump supporters, U.S. liberal intellectuals exist in a fantasy world in which a leading purveyor of “international terrorism” – the U.S. government – is perceived as a fundamentally benign force, Noam Chomsky told RT.
“Just as you can’t get the Republican mobs to admit that the election was lost, you can’t get liberal American intellectuals to recognize that the United States is a leading terrorist state,” Chomsky told RT’s, Chris Hedges.
The facts are that for almost the entirety
An Iraqi legislator has warned against the Unites States’ attempts to disrupt peace and security in the Middle East through supporting terrorism, saying Washington is even ready to set entire Iraq on fire so it can keep its military forces in the Arab country.
Karim Alaiwi, a legislator from the Fatah (Conquest) alliance and a member of the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi legislature, told Arabic-language Baghdad Today warned against the policies of new US President Joe Biden towards
A twin suicide bombing took place in the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing more than 32 people and wounding at least 110 others, the country's health ministry said.
The rare suicide bombing hit the Bab al-Sharqi commercial area in central Baghdad amid heightened political tensions over planned early elections and a severe economic crisis. Blood smeared the floors of the busy market amid piles of clothes and shoes as survivors took stock of the disarray in the aftermath. No one immediately took
The US Department of State has initiated a review of the designation of the rebel Houthi movement as a terrorist organization and is working as fast as it can to make a determination, a State Department spokesperson said in a statement.
"As noted by Secretary-Designate Blinken, the State Department has initiated a review of Ansarallah's [Houthi] terrorist designations," the spokesperson said on Friday. "We will not publicly discuss or comment on internal deliberations regarding that review
Who is a terrorist? These rights activists in Tehran say the West does not have a unified definition of the word terrorism.
A case in point they say is the Syrian conflict, where the US views the terrorists as opposition groups who aim to topple the Assad government. And Hezbollah, which is a popular party in Lebanon, is branded by the US as a terrorist organization.
Having lost over 17,000 people in terror attacks, Iran regards itself [as] a major victim of terrorism. Since Iran's 1979 Islamic
