Bahraini activist Zainab al-Khawaja was released from prison on Sunday after nearly a year behind bars for multiple convictions including participation in a so-called “illegal” gathering. Friends and supporters greeted her in a coffee shop in a main mall hours after her release. The cafe has served as a gathering …

On 20 January, heavily-armed gunmen killed a prominent Shiite leader, Allama Alim Al-Musvi, in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. “Two gunmen opened fire on the scholar and escaped when he came out of his house and walked towards the mosque,” media outlets quoted a local security official as saying. No …

Hujjat al-Islam Shaikh Murtadha Tehrani, representative of the people of Tehran in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, gave a speech last night in Fatimiyyeh Mosque in which he advised the importance of self-refinement in political activism. He started off by speaking about the people who helped Prophet Moses (s) topple the …

Allamah Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri, secretary general of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM), has announced that MWM would launch a movement to protest against the pro-Taliban and pro-takfiri policies of the PMLN-Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Sharif) government. “Punjab’s government too has become the patron-in-chief of the Taliban [and the takfiri] terrorists, with the …

Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has called for more solidarity among Muslim countries, expressing concern over woes in the Islamic world. In an address to the executive committee of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Member States in Tehran on Friday, Larijani said the meeting …

 The Israeli authorities have blocked 70 patients from Gaza from entering Israel to receive medical treatment because their transfer documents were marked “State of Palestine”, officials said on Wednesday. Until recently, official stationery has used the term “Palestinian territories”. But the logo was changed in mid-December, a year after the …

Hujjat al-Islam Mohammadian, president of the Institution Representing the Supreme Leader in Universities, presented a short letter from the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khamenei to a union made up of Islamic student groups noting down 5 practical steps as reminders relevant to all youth involved in Islamic …

Scholars have always been at the forefront of the revolutionary movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. From the struggle leading up to the revolution to the revolution itself, from the 8 year war to the struggles of society today,  the scholars have been on the front lines as role …

Grand Jurist, Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli, speaking to journalist regarding the revolution day demonstrations in Qum, stated the reality of answering the call to come out in support of the system: “This presence is answering the call of the intellect, of one’s true nature, of independence and political awareness.”   The …

Ayatollah Mohsin Araki, the Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, on the side-lines of the revolution day demonstration, stated the reason why people came out with more vigour then previous years: “The inappropriate stances of America in the negotiations such as the broken …