Charlie Hebdo stirs controversy with new Islamophobic cartoon
Press TV – The French magazine Charlie Hebdo has stirred outrage with yet another offensive cartoon, this time linking Islam to the…
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Free speech no excuse for insulting religions: Pope
Pope Francis has lashed out at those in the Western societies who keep justifying their insults against religions by resorting to notions…
The Canadian professor of globalization studies: The letter of Iran’s Leader is inspirational
(By Anthony Hall) — I had already read the inspired letter from the Supreme Leader to North American and European youth. I…
Reclaiming the prophet Muhammad in Iran
A new film about the Prophet Muhammad is slotted to have its debut this Sunday at the Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran. Directed by…
A Phobia of What?!
TEHRAN, Feb. 01 (MNA) – Iranian researcher and documentary filmmaker has analyzed western mainstream media approach toward Islam. In the words of…
Australian priest: Fatherly tone of Iran leader’s letter foils West’s indoctrination plot
TEHRAN (FNA)- Rev. David B. Smith, an Anglican Parish Priest based in Australia, says that today minds of the youth are tools…
Iranian film on prophet Muhammad set for premiere
Majid Majidi’s Tehran-backed production telling the story of Muhammad’s early years to be shown at Iran’s Fajr international film festival. A multimillion-dollar…
Indian police arrest editor over Charlie Hebdo reprint
MUMBAI: Police have arrested and bailed the editor of an Urdu-language newspaper in Mumbai for reprinting an anti-Islam cartoon from satirical French…
Political reasons behind desecration of Islamic sanctities
Tehran, Jan 28, IRNA — Iranian Jewish Rabbi Younes Hamami Lalehzar said political motives were behind the desecration of Islamic sanctities. Speaking…
Oppressive govts. main reason for spiritual vacuum
TEHRAN, Jan. 26 (MNA) – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani criticized defamation of religion and called the recent French cartoons an…
Islam has the right to protest: Larijani
TEHRAN, Jan. 26 (MNA) – General Secretary of High Council for Human Rights in Iran’s Judiciary System while stressing that desecration of…
Armenian Patriarch deplores desecration of Prophet Muhammad
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church censured France for the publication of sacrilegious cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad…
Iran Press House sends protest letter to French envoy in Tehran
Tehran, Jan 25, IRNA – Iran’s Press House sent a letter of protest to the French Embassy in Tehran on Sunday condemning…
Photos of the week
18 January-25 January Iranian officials go to work by underground on Clean Air Day Iranian National Museum of Graphic Arts…
Iranian minority MPs condemn Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon
TEHRAN (FNA)- Representatives of Iranian religious minorities at the Parliament in a statement on Sunday deplored the blasphemous cartoon of Islam’s prophet…
Photos: Rallies held across Iran to condemn desecration of Prophet Muhammad
Iranian people attended nationwide rallies on Friday to show their love and respect for the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH) and to…
Senior MP stresses important role of Muslim elite in explaining Leader’s message to West
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker underlined the important of role of the Muslim elites in the West in defusing the Islamophobia…
Iran cities in big protests over Charlie Hebdo
Tens of thousands took to the streets in cities across Iran after Friday prayers to condemn French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for…
Minister: Western religious bodies blast Charlie Hebdo
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi condemned the French weekly, Charlie Hebdo, for publishing a cartoon of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad (PBUH),…
Iran head counters media portrayal of Islam
Iranian leaders have rejected the representation of Islam by the Paris shooters and in Western media, encouraging people instead to look in…
Iran’s Khamenei urges Western youth to examine Islam for themselves
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged Western youth to examine Islam for themselves rather than swallow prejudiced views, in a…
Politics and rivalry shape Iranian response to Paris attack
(Reuters) – The deadly attack by Islamist gunmen on the offices of French newspaper Charlie Hebdo drew a somewhat unexpected response from…
‘To the youth in Europe and North America’: An unexpected open letter from Iran’s Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, known for fiery rhetoric condemning the West as “evil” and the “Great Satan,” sounded a much more temperate note on Wednesday. In…
Iran’s Supreme Leader pens an open letter to western youth
Knowing that the best way to reach the youth of Europe and North America is via Twitter, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei used the social…
Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei appeals to western youth not to prejudge Islam
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Western youths not to let the killings at a French satirical magazine prejudice their view…
Iran news round up – January 21, 2015
A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst…
Iran’s hard-liners irked by Zarif’s geneva stroll with Kerry
A 15-minute stroll in Switzerland with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has landed Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in hot…
Iran leader message to the youth in Europe and North America
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has addressed the youth in Europe and North America. In the name of…
France to sue Fox News channel for broadcasting false reports
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo says she will sue Fox News channel for broadcasting false reports that the French city has “no-go zones”…
‘Freedom of speech not freedom to insult’
TEHRAN, Jan. 21 (MNA) – In the wake of Charlie Hebdo’s desecration of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), Iranian foreign minister reiterated that freedom…
Leader of Iran’s Jews denounces French sacrilegious cartoon
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Leader of Iranian Jews Rabbi Mashallah Golestani-Nejad slammed the publication of a sacrilegious cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)…
Insulting Muslims not freedom of speech: Rouhani
TEHRAN, Jan. 21 (MNA) – President Rouhani, while expressing deep sorrow on the desecration of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), said it is a…
Iran daily: Tehran shifts again, Seeks dialogue with Saudi Arabia
After weeks of denouncing Saudi Arabia over falling oil prices — and days after blaming the Saudi Foreign Minister for the failure…
Rouhani: Sacrilege, violence no ways to defend freedom, religion
Tehran, Jan 20, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani said insults, sacrilege, assassination and violence are no ways to defend either freedom or…
Cameron defends ‘reasonable’ letter to mosques
The Prime Minister says that anyone opposing a letter sent to UK mosques after the Paris terror attacks “really has a problem”.…
Hundreds of thousands protest in Chechnya against Mohammad cartoons
(Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people protested in Russia’s Chechnya region on Monday against what its Kremlin-backed leader called the “vulgar…
France begins jailing people for ironic comments
It may sound like an ironic joke, but it isn’t. Less than a week after the massive rallies in defense of “free…
A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Jan. 20
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 15 of them. IFP has…
Tehran’s Armenians rap Charlie Hebdo’s insulting cartoon
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Armenian Diocese of Tehran condemned French weekly Charlie Hebdo for printing an insulting cartoon of Islam’s holy Prophet…