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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Protesting people in Iran ask for expulsion of French envoy
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A large group of Iranian students and people, in a final statement released at the end of Monday protest…
Iranian FM: Western insult to Islam pushing extremism forward
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned French weekly Charlie Hebdo’s sacrilegious cartoon of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), and said…
Iran students to protest at French embassy against Charlie Hebdo
Iranian students plan to protest outside the French embassy in Tehran today against the new Charlie Hebdo cover lampooning the Prophet Muhammad. The…
Insults at Prophet Muhammad reveal hostility with Islam: Cleric
Tehran, Jan 16, IRNA – Tehran Substitute Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahhedi Kermani said recent insults at Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in…
Iranian top cleric condemns anti-Islamic cartoons as ‘modern ignorance’
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior Iranian cleric condemned the publication of new cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by French satirical magazine…
Iranian culture ministry slams Charlie Hebdo’s sacrilegious cartoon
TEHRAN (FNA)- Spokesman of Iran’s Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry Hossein Noushabadi strongly condemned the French weekly, Charlie Hebdo, for publishing a…
Yemen’s Al-Qaida claims responsibility for Paris attack
CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s al-Qaida branch on Wednesday claimed responsibility for last week’s deadly attack on a Paris satirical newspaper, with one…
Paris shooting: French far-right leader Le Pen calls for death penalty
The leader of France’s rightwing Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen, has announced she would reintroduce the death penalty if she wins…
Iran press says France must review policy after deadly attack
France must review its policy towards the Middle East and the Muslim world following the deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical…
One of 3 Paris gunman surrenders after attack on Charlie Hebdo
The youngest of the three gunmen engaged in an attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris has surrendered to police, a…
Iran condemns deadly attack on French weekly in Paris
Iran has condemned a deadly attack on a weekly magazine in the French capital city of Paris, describing any terrorist action against…
Shooting at French satirical magazine kills 12, injures 5
At least twelve people have been killed and five others critically injured when several masked men armed with automatic weapons stormed the offices of…