Category: Shia
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Can’t be oblivious to the suffering that a Muslim is enduring in Myanmar, Gaza, India: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. File | Photo Credit: Reuters/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader India on Monday “strongly” deplored Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comment on the condition of the Muslim community in India. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) described the remark as “unacceptable”. Mr. Khamenei had on…
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian Visits Iraq: Messages and Significations
In his first foreign visit after being elected as Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian undertook a three-day trip to Iraq from September 11 to September 13, 2024. This visit came in response to an official invitation from Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani in July 2024 and included stops in five Iraqi cities: Erbil, Najaf, Karbala,…
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Iraqi parliament to hold second reading of controversial civil status law amendments today
Iraqi parliament to hold second reading of controversial civil status law amendments today Iraqi parliament to hold second reading of controversial civil status law amendments today Shia blocs, holding a majority in the parliament, are determined to push forward the legislation despite the increasing outcry. The amendments to Personal Status Law No. 188 of 1959…
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Engineering chaos: How ISIS enabled the Islamic Republic of Iran’s expansion – opinion
Both sides were using the conflict to advance their own agendas, often at the expense of the very people they claimed to protect. By CATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 06:10 ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY Guard Corps Commander-in-Chief Major General Hossein Salami looks on during a ceremony in Tehran, last month. Afshin Payravi, a member of the Iranian…
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In Afghanistan, the Taliban’s stranglehold, captured in Hashem Shakeri’s photos
Hashem Shakeri Magazine Afghanistan By Ghazal Golshiri Published yesterday at 11:43 pm (Paris) Subscribers only GalleryDespite the tightening of entry conditions for foreign journalists in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power on August 15, 2021, the Iranian photographer managed to enter the country up until 2023. His images show youth deprived of a future and all…
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Labour MP Emily Thornberry under fire after selection as head of foreign affairs committee
Labour MP Emily Thornberry has been appointed as chair of the UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, to the outrage of Syria activists over comments made when she was the party’s shadow foreign secretary. Thornberry was voted in as chair by British MPs on Wednesday, who are in the process of electing select committees – cross-party…
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UK Labour MP Emily Thornberry under fire after selection as head of foreign affairs committee
Labour MP Emily Thornberry has been appointed as chair of the UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, to the outrage of Syria activists over comments made when she was the party’s shadow foreign secretary. Thornberry was voted in as chair by British MPs on Wednesday, who are in the process of electing select committees – cross-party…
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IS claims deadly attack on Shia Muslims in central Afghanistan
IS claims deadly attack on Shia Muslims in central Afghanistan A source in the province which could not be identified for security reasons told AFP 14 people had been killed and at least four wounded. Local sources said 14 people were killed in the attack [Getty] Gunmen killed a group of civilians in central Afghanistan…
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IS Claims Deadly Attack In Central Afghanistan
By AFP – Agence France Presse September 12, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article Text size Gunmen killed a group of civilians in central Afghanistan on Thursday, the interior ministry said, in an attack that was claimed by the local chapter of the Islamic State group. “Fifteen Shiite (Muslims) were killed and six others wounded in…
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Iran president makes ‘historic’ visit to Iraqi Kurdistan
Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Iraqi Kurdistan Thursday on a visit hailed by the regional president as the first by an Iranian president to the autonomous region. Pezeshkian’s visit to Iraq is his first trip abroad since he took office in July. The Kurdistan leg is the latest sign of warming relations between Iran and the…
