Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised Palestinian resistance movements for firmly standing up to the Israeli military during its recent 50-day aggression on Gaza. Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with members of Iran’s Assembly of Experts on Thursday that the military achievements of Palestinians ...
Read More »The Saudi proposal to move Prophet Muhammad’s tomb
One of Islam’s most revered holy sites – the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) – could be destroyed and his body removed to an anonymous grave in the Baqi’ cemetery under plans which threaten to spark discord across the Muslim world. The controversial proposals are part of a consultation ...
Read More »Israel to annex 400 hectares of Palestinian land: ‘Biggest in 30 years’
Israel announced plans on Sunday to expropriate 400 hectares (988 acres) of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem area in the south of the occupied West Bank, the military said. “On the instructions of the political echelon… 4,000 dunams at (the settlement of) Gevaot is declared as state land,” the army ...
Read More »Why ISIS is a threat to Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism’s deferred promise
For an accurate assessment of the danger represented by the project of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an overall reading of the Saudi political mindset is necessary. The Wahhabi Saudi state was established in the mid-18th century out of an alliance between Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdel Wahhab ...
Read More »ISIS – The worst of serial killers
Among the worst of criminals and transgressors are murderers – those who take away the life of innocent human beings. Among this category of murderers, the worst of them are those who kill ruthlessly and shed the blood of a huge fraction of people in a cold-blooded and brutal manner. ...
Read More »Hujjat al-Islam Saeedi: The Islamic Republic and The Islamic Resistance will pave way for the return
Hujjat al-Islam Saeedi, a highly respected teach of the Islamic seminary, in a sitting with Lebanese officials in the Holy Shrine of Lady Ma’sumah (s), spoke about the threats facing the Islamic world currently and the relationship between the Islamic Republic and the Islamic resistance in Lebanon. The respected scholar ...
Read More »Meet Haider al-Abadi, the man named Iraq’s new prime minister
Iraq’s president on Monday named Haider al-Abadi as the country’s new prime minister, an appointment that came amid speculation that the embattled incumbent, Nouri al-Maliki, would cling to power even after his country had dissolved into chaos and the United States made it clear that it would not support him as ...
Read More »The secret report that helps Israel hide facts
Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government spokesmen such as Mark ...
Read More »UN Security Council slams ISIL
The United Nations (UN) Security Council has lashed out at the crimes committed by the ISIL Takfiri group inside Iraq and Syria, calling it a threat to the whole region. British Ambassador to the UN Mark Lyall Grant, who is the president of the Security Council for August, said in a ...
Read More »Iraq forces, Peshmerga kill 240 ISIL terrorists
Soldiers of the Iraqi army have inflicted heavy losses on the ISIL Takfiri terrorists in separate clashes around the militant-held city of Mosul. At least 60 militants were killed in one airstrike targeting a juvenile prison in Mosul, the provincial capital of Nineveh province, on Wednesday. The prison was being ...
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