Al Monitor | Fazel Hawramy: Iranian authorities have rounded up at least 150 people in Tehran and in the Kurdish areas in the west of the country following the June 7 terrorist attacks in the capital, which claimed 18 lives. The five young attackers who pledged allegiance to the ISIS in a video released shortly after the attacks appear to have traveled ...

MNA A University of Alabama professor tells Mehr News International Service it is too early to conclude on the possible causes and contributors in assassination of Russian ambassador to Turkey. Nader Entessar believed that assassination would seek multiple objectives, the most important being to undermine the possible dtente between Turkey and ...

In the Middle East of today, national security is grappling with the complicated phenomenon of terrorism. Terrorism in the Middle East is the product of Wahhabi Salafism which has been materialized in the form of al-Qaeda. Up to the present day, the Salafist current has gone through four stages, which can be enumerated as follows: 1. theoretical ...

Alwaght- According to the findings of a research on the religions and sects in Azerbaijan, up to the breakout of the former Soviet Union not only the country had no Wahhabi communities but also it did not have even a small group of Salafists. The communist Soviet regime clampdown on religion made it difficult to have accurate statistics about the followers ...

[caption id="attachment_144813" align="alignright" width="195"] Sheikh Mohammad Saleh al-Munajjid[/caption] A Salafi Saudi Arabian cleric has stirred up controversy by issuing a ruling prohibiting the building of snowmen. Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid made the comments while replying to a question posted on his website. Al-Munajjid was asked ...

A senior Iranian judicial official has criticized Turkeys support for the ISIL Takfiri militants and Salafi extremists, saying the democracy coming from the ISIL terrorist group is fake. The West has tried to create a fake entity named the Salafi group which has no task but to kill people and commit [acts of] aggression, Secretary of Iran's High Council ...

[caption id="attachment_23829" align="alignright" width="210"] Chairman of Iran's Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Alaeddin Boroujerdi[/caption] A senior Iranian lawmaker has slammed Saudi Arabia for supporting the extremist and deviant Salafist current in the Muslim world. In a Tuesday interview, Chairman of Iran Majlis National ...