Daily News Egypt interviews former Muslim Brotherhood member Kamal Helbawy to discuss his history with the group, reasons for his departure, and the future of the now outlawed group. Not many people have spent more time in the Muslim Brotherhood as Kamal Helbawy. The 75-year-old spent decades in the Gulf, ...
Read More »Supreme Leader attends graduation ceremony at the Imam Hussein (as) University
Ayatollah Khamenei, the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces, attended the graduation ceremony of cadets at Imam Hussein (a.s.) University on Wednesday morning. Speaking at the meeting, which was held on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of Khoramshahr on May 24, 1983, His Eminence described building religious, ...
Read More »What Iran really wants: Iranian foreign policy in the Rouhani era
Foreign policy is a critical component in the lives, conduct, and governance of all nation-states. But it has become even more significant in recent years as interstate relations have grown ever more complex. The inexorable rise in the number of international players — including multilateral organizations, nonstate actors, and even ...
Read More »Ayatollah Khatami: Resistance economy to defeat sanctions
Imam of the Friday Prayers in Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, says the policy of the “resistance economy” initiated by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei will defeat sanctions imposed against Iran. “The resistance economy will render all sanctions ineffective,” Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said in his sermon to ...
Read More »Iran too strong to be overpowered
An old Kurdish saying goes: “When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.” In 1962, on the eve of the American invasion of Vietnam, US propaganda movie “Red Nightmare” portrayed the peoples of the Communist Bloc as bellicose, duplicitous, semi-human fanatics. The Warner Brothers-produced ...
Read More »Hujjat al-Islam Shaikh Tehrani: Self-refinement saves religion, society and self from harm
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 ...
Read More »Short letter of Ayatollah Khamenei to his revolutionary children
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 ...
Read More »Presence of Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi and Ayatollah Hamedani in revolution day demonstrations
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 ...
Read More »Ayatollah Jawadi: This nation will never leave the system of Wilayat al-Faqih
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 ...
Read More »Shaikh al-Helali of al-Azhar University: The revolution has its roots in the Quran
Shaikh Taj al-Deen al-Helali, a scholar from al-Azhar University and the previous mufti in Australia, in a conversation with international journalist spoke about the foundations of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. “Without a doubt the Islamic revolution of Iran, directed by Imam Khomeini, was based on Quranic principles and ...
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