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The Iranian foreign minister, in a letter to the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, has warned against the continuation of defiling Islamic sanctities.
Iran marks the start of the month of Muharram during which Shia Muslims mourn the martyrdom of anniversary of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and the third Shia Imam, Hussein ibn Ali.
A member of the office for the preservation of the works of Iran’s Leader has said that the burning of holy books in front of the Israeli embassy in Denmark by someone who is standing beside the picture of Iran’s leader is suspicious and indefensible.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has extended his condolences to the Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah over the passing of a religious authority and Shia scholar from Lebanon.
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has passed a motion on religious hatred and bigotry in the wake of the desecration of the Holy Qur'an in Sweden that led to widespread outrage and protests across the Muslim world.
Assyrians in the northwestern Iranian province of West Azerbaijan held a thousand-year ritual honoring the Saints of the Church. The event was held on Sunday evening at Mardanial church in Urmia, the provincial capital.
Iranian Sunni Muslim cleric Molavi Abdolhamid has condemned the terrorist attack on a police station in the southeastern city of Zahedan in Sistan and Baluchestan Province. Molavi Abdolhamid expressed deep regret over the incident.
Iran and Iraq have agreed to set up joint security posts on their border to control Arbaeen march. That’s according to the Iraqi interior Minister Abdul Amir Al-Shammari.
Iran’s capital, Tehran, hosts a 10-kilometer-long street celebration to commemorate Eid al-Ghadir, one of the most significant holidays for Shia Muslims worldwide.
Popular Iranian musician and singer Mohsen Chavoshi slams the burning of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden, saying the sacrilegious move is rooted in a failure to distort the divine book of Muslims.
The spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned repeated desecration of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden as an act running counter to origional human rights values.
Millions of Iranians, along with Muslims worldwide, celebrate the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice, which commemorates the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has stressed the annual Hajj rituals can foil all the plots of the arrogant powers and the Zionists against humanity.
The pilgrimage of Hajj has begun as crowds of Muslims donning white robes circle the Kaaba, the cubed structure at the epicentre of Islam’s holiest site, their prayers ringing through the air. The number of pilgrims this year is expected to break records at more than 2.5 million.
The custodians of the Shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shia Imam, perform a cleansing ritual at the holy site in the northeastern city of Mashhad, as Iranians prepare to celebrate the venerated Shia Muslim figure’s birth anniversary on Wednesday.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that the Hajj rituals aim to forge unity among the Islamic Ummah in the face of the Israeli regime and global arrogance.
Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Kazem Gharibabadi says members of religious minorities in the country are in fact part of the Iranian population as a whole.
A group of Muslim devotees known as the Sadeqiyoun Society have held a procession to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Jafar Sadeq, the sixth Shia Imam, in Mashhad, northeastern Iran.
