TEHRAN (IQNA) – Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar Islamic Center, called for measures at the international level to counter radicalism and extremism. In a post on his Twitter account, el-Tayeb decried the terrorist attack in Vienna, Austria, expressing sympathy with the families of the victims, RT Arabic ...
Read More »France’s Islamophobia speeds up inevitable decline of US, Israel: Iran’s IRGC
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has vehemently condemned the support of French officials for derogatory cartoons against the Prophet of Islam, noting that France’s Islamophobia project only speeds up the inevitable fall of the United States and the Zionist regime. In a statement released on Monday, the IRGC said ...
Read More »Indonesians Protest French President’s Anti-Islam Stances
Indonesian Muslims marched to the heavily guarded France Embassy in Indonesia’s capital on Monday to protest France’s president and his staunch support of secular laws that deem caricatures depicting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as protected speech. Waving white flags bearing the Islamic declaration of faith, more than 2,000 demonstrators, many wearing ...
Read More »Israel Demolishes Record Number of Palestinian Homes in 2020: Report
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Israeli authorities have demolished a record number of Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds so far this year, despite the coronavirus pandemic that has seriously affected Palestinians’ lives. Ir Amim, an Israeli NGO opposing Israel’s settlement expansion activities, said in a report that ...
Read More »Islamic Unity Best Way to Counter Enemies
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A senior Lebanese scholar underlined that the best policy to counter enemy onslaughts on Islam and desecration of Islamic sanctities is strengthening Muslim unity. Speaking to IQNA in an interview on the occasion of the Islamic Unity Week, Secretary General of the International Union of Resistance Scholars ...
Read More »‘Israeli’ Soldiers Assault Mother, Son in West Bank
‘Israeli’ occupation soldiers assaulted and beat up a Palestinian woman and her son in the city of al-Khalil, south of the occupied West Bank. Then they detained the son. The soldiers, who were escorting a group of rampaging Zionist settlers while attacking Palestinian homes east of al-Khalil, detained Mohammad Aref ...
Read More »Macron should be arrested, prosecuted for hate speech
TEHRAN, Oct. 31 (MNA) – Human rights activist Firas Al Najim believes French President Emmanuel Macron should be held accountable for promoting hate speech. “Macron should be arrested and prosecuted for hate crimes,” Najim, manager of Canadian Defenders For Human Rights, told Mehr News Agency in an exclusive interview following ...
Read More »Students Hold Rally in Front of French Embassy in Tehran to Protest Insults to Holy Prophet
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A rally was held Wednesday in front of the French embassy in Tehran to condemn recent republication of insulting cartoons about the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in France and Islamophobic remarks by French officials. The demonstrators chanted slogans against French officials and the world arrogance and denounced ...
Read More »One ‘NO’ Instead of Three! Sudanese Against Normalization
Beirut – News would read that Egypt and Jordan were the first to normalize ties with the enemy of the Arab and Muslim nation, and were then followed by the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan. No! It is not the right way to report this particular ‘achievement’. It was ...
Read More »Palestinian Detainee Al-Akhras Continues Hunger-Strike for the 95th Day in a Row
Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras continues his open-ended hunger strike for the 95th day in a row, rejecting his administrative detention, amid serious deterioration in his health and the continuation of the popular movement supporting him. Al-Akhras suffers from severe fatigue and stress, chest and body pains, affecting his sense of ...
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