IRNA Senior Armenian archbishop on Saturday stressed Iranian Armenians' preparedness to defend the country against foreign threats. 'We will continue the martyrs' pathway,' Sahak Khosravian, representative of the Archbishop of Armenian church in Tehran said in a reference to 104 Armenians who were martyred in defense of Iran during the eight-year ...

IRNA - The Assyrian Association of Tehran in a statement released on Sunday slammed the US secretary of state's anti-Iranian tweet. The Assyrian Association of Tehran dismissed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claims about violation of rights of minorities in Iran, and said that the minority groups in Iran can defend their rights and do not need ...

MNA Bahram Ghasemi of Iranian foreign ministry denounced the anti-Iran claims made in the final statement of the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in Washington. Iranian foreign Ministry Spokesperson Bahram Ghasemi condemned the anti-Iran content of the recent statement issued at the end of the Ministerial to Advance Religious ...

IFP - A top Zoroastrian cleric in Irans Isfahan province has dismissed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeos claims that religious minorities in Iran do not have freedom, saying that such statements are futile and groundless. Behzad Nikdin said in an interview with IRNA that based on the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, followers ...

MNA Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council and Mohsen Rezaei referred to new decision of the Expediency Council about minorities and said that there is no deadlock in the Establishment if all keep abiding by the Constitution. He made the remarks in apost on his Twitter account, on Saturday. His post came after the new decision made ...

IRNA - Chairman of Pakistans Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) says that all minorities are enjoying complete religious freedom and protection in Iran. Dr Qibla Ayaz was speaking at a seminar in connection with the 39th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution about the situation of minorities rights in Iran. The Seminar was organized by Iran Cultural ...

IRNA - President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday underlined promotion of the status of ethnic minorities and women in his second presidential term. Government plans to elevate females to higher ranks, 30 percent higher than the current status, he said. The President called for appointing women, youth, ethnic minorities and followers of various religious ...

IFP - An Iranian Assyrian Christian lawmaker has rejected as baseless a recent US report on religious freedom violations in Iran, saying despite the US claims all religious minorities in the Islamic Republic enjoy absolute freedom to perform their rites. In a Farsi interview with ICANA, Yonathan Betkolia denounced as baseless the US ...

[caption id="attachment_141330" align="alignright" width="152"] Iran Presidents special aid for religious minorities Ali Younesi[/caption] Tehran, March 18, IRNA Presidential Advisor in Religious and Ethnic Minorities Affairs Ali Younesi said Iran shares cultural and historical commonalities with other regional countries. In a meeting with representatives ...

[caption id="attachment_141330" align="alignright" width="181"] Iran Presidents special aid for religious minorities Ali Younesi[/caption] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region Nearly a third of Irans parliament has called on Irans president to dismiss one of his vice presidents for claiming that all of the Middle East is Iranian. Iranian media reports said ...

Dezful, Khuzestan province, Feb 20, IRNA A group of Iranian Jews congredated on Thurasdy evening to pray beside the Tomb of Daniel the Prophet in the city of Shush(anciet Susa) in Khuzestan province. According to IRNA reporter, the worshippers, in their annual observance, recited verses from the Psalms of David. The Head of the shrine Alireza ...

Isfahan, Jan 16, IRNA -- Archbishop of the Armenians of Isfahan Province Babken Charian underlined that the rights of religious and ethnic minorities are respected in Iran, saying that the religious minorities have peaceful coexistence in Iran. 'The religious minorities are having friendly times beside the Muslims in Iran and if the people of the ...

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Tehran, Dec 31, IRNA - Vice-Speaker of Majlis Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Hassan Abutorabi-Fard congratulated the Christians in Iran and all over the world on the advent of the year 2015 . Addressing the Wednesday session of Majlis, he wished a year full of happiness and prosperity for Christians across the globe. By IRNA   The Iran Project ...

Tehran, Dec 26, IRNA Iran supports freedoms of religious minorities and insulting true messengers of God, Including Jesus Christ (P) is strictly forbidden for every true Muslim, presidents special adviser in tribes, religious and ethnic minorities affairs said here Friday. The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it a duty to support the religions ...

Iran may be the worlds only modern theocracy, but the Islamic Republics constitution actually mandates a political role for three religious minorities. Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians all have seats in the 290-seat parliament proportionate to their populations: Two seats for Armenian Christians, One for Assyrian and Chaldean Christians, One ...