Press TV - Canada has gifted some $30 million worth of Iranian assets to the victims of terrorist attacks in which Iran says has not been involved, Canadian media reported. The victims have received their share of the money earned through the sale of two Iranian-owned buildings in Ottawa and Toronto, according to adocumentfiled in the Ontario Superior ...

At least 45 people are killed in a hostage-taking attack and a series of bombings in the violence-ridden country of Iraq. Some20 people were killed and 50 others wounded after a bomber detonated his explosives-filled vest inside a cafeinMuqdadiya,80kmnortheast of Baghdad,on Monday, security and medical sources said. As medics and civilians gathered ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) During the latest meeting of Irans Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, President Rouhani touched upon the recent acts of terror in France, Egypt, and Lebanon.Islam is the religion of mercy and peace; it should not be permittedacts like these in Europe and America where many Muslims live, lead to rise of Islamophobia, ...

The north terminal at the UK's Gatwick Airport has been evacuated as a precautionary measure, the airport's Twitter feed said. The second-largest international airport in London said an incident had caused the evacuation.   Gatwick Airport LGW?@Gatwick_Airport Due to an incident - the North Terminal has been evacuated as a precautionary ...

Tehran, Nov 14, IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Saturday strongly condemned the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris that killed at least 100 people. Hossein Jaber Ansari, in a statement, sympathized with the bereaved families of victims and the French nation and government on the sad occasion. 'Those terrorist groups that committed ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned a terrorist blast in Sitra Island, south of the Bahraini capital, Manama. The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham called for serious attention to the fight against terrorism and Takfiri extremism. The main challenge in the region is terrorism and extremism and ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior Iranian official expressed deep concern over the spread of terrorism in the Middle East, saying that if regional states ignore President Hassan Rouhani's proposal on counter-terrorism, they would face "a dangerous fate". If the region disregards Dr Rouhani's 'WAVE' (World against Violence and Extremism) proposal, which ...

Tehran, July 22, IRNA - Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday that any change in Syria should be made through democratic means and the people should exercise the right to determine their own fate. Abdollahian made the remarks in a meeting with visiting UN representative on Syria Staffan de Mistura....

Tehran, July 20, IRNA Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Southern Turkey which resulted in death and injury of several Turkish citizens on Monday. 'This criminal terrorist attack once again showed that the perpetrators of such acts are not committed to any principle and for achieving their inhuman ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Iranian foreign ministry strongly condemned a deadly bombing outside the Italian consulate in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, and reiterated that terrorism is a common threat against global peace and stability. In a statement on Sunday evening, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham expressed her condolences to ...

A senior Iranian diplomat says Israel is the main supporter and beneficiary of acts of terrorism by the ISIL terrorist group in the Middle East, urging unity among Muslim nations to secure the future of the region. Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday that the Tel Aviv regime and the ...

Iran has decried the 1988 missile attack by the US military on an Iranian passenger jet flying over the Persian Gulf, saying the heinous crime will be etched in memories forever. The Iranian Foreign Ministry made the comments in a statement issued on Thursday to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the US navys shooting down of the Iranian airliner ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Terrorist attacks in Kuwait, Tunisia and France which claimed scores of lives dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday. The comments of Foreign Minister ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali al-Sistani condoled with the people of Kuwait over a Friday terrorist attack that left dozens of worshippers at a mosque in Kuwait city killed or injured. Ayatollah Sistani addressed Kuwaiti people in a statement, saying, "We received with grief news about the criminal attack which ...

Irans gas exports to the neighboring Iraq have been pushed back again over concerns about the security of the pipeline, the Fars news agency said on Saturday, citing informed energy industry sources. Iran is ready to begin exports but some minor problems are preventing the start of the gas flow to Iraq, the source said. The shadow of security ...

Iran confirms that two of its nationals werekilled in a terrorist bomb attack at a ShiaMosque in the Kuwaiti capital, Kuwait City. Irans Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Saturday that the two Iranianswere residing in Kuwait. Earlier in the day, Irans Ambassador to Kuwait Alireza Enayati had also confirmed the two had lost their ...

Germanys Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV, has raised serious concerns over the increasing number of German women who have traveled to conflict-ridden Iraq and Syria to join the ranks of the ISIL Takfirimilitant group. Speaking to reporters in the capital, Berlin, on Wednesday, President of the BfV Hans-Georg Maassen ...

Deputy Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gholam Hossein Dehqani has warned against a spike in violence in Afghanistan, saying the activities of extremist elements in the war-torn state pose a security threat to Iran and the entire region. In a speech at a Monday UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan, Dehqani said ...

Meanwhile, in Milan's Duomo cathedral, Michelle Obama lights candles in memory of the victims in South Carolina. U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed anger over the shootings that took place in a black church in South Carolina and said such incidents of gun violence do not happen in other advanced countries. Obama, in a statement ...

Tehran, June 18, IRNA - A high-ranking cleric in Iran's Assembly of Experts said the Takfiri terrorist groups are a dangerous conspiracy which should be contronted culturally and intellectually by the religious scholars, intellectuals and elites of the Islamic World. Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi also told the visiting Iraqi Premier ...