MNA University students and Clerics across Iran are planning to arrange a sit-in this afternoon to protest against approving the bills defined by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Accordingly, university students and clerics in the capital will join the sit-in at the Grand Bazaar, downtown Tehran. Iran has been recommended to endorse the ...

MNA Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said that the clerics are responsible to be revolutionary, know enemies, and confront them. If the cleric community had not entered the field of resistance against the monarchist regime of Pahlavi, the Islamic Revolution had never succeeded, said Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader ...

IRNA President-elect Hassan Rouhani arrived in Qom on Thursday and conferred with a number of Ulema on issues of mutual interest. Rouhani met with Ayatollahs Safi Golpaygani, Vahid Khorasani, Shobeir Zanjani and Makarem Shirazi in Qom on Thursday. Rouhanis meetings with the Ulema in Qom were in the absence of reporters. A number of local ...

Tehran, Sept 6, IRNA Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday advised the clerics to remove ambiguities on religious teachings and fight attempts to secularise society and also deal with those seeking to weaken chastity. The Supreme Leader made the remarks in a meeting with a group of clerics of theological ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called on the Iranian clerics and religious promoters to keep abreast of the latest developments in the digital world and use the cyberspace to counter hostile plots against Islam. Giving lessons in a religious class in Tehran on Tuesday morning, Ayatollah Khamenei ...

July26, The Iran Project Iranian senior clerics have strongly condemnedthe trial of prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qasim whose citizenship was revoked last month by Bahraini officials. Reacting to stripping Sheikh Isa Qasim of citizenship and his upcoming trial, Member of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini saidIslamic Republic of ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A delegation of Iranian clerics representing scholars of the Qom Seminary held a meeting with Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, voicing support for Hezbollah in confrontation with the Tel Aviv regime and Takfiri terrorists. Led by Ayatollah Moqtadayi, the delegation met with ...

Qom, Feb 26, IRNA Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, a top religious leader, on Friday called on the Iranian nation to take part in the elections. Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi made the remarks after voting at a ballot box in the holy city of Qom in central Iran in the elections for the fifth Assembly of Experts and the tenth parliament. He ...

Tehran, September 30, The Iran Project In separate remarks, Iranian senior clericshave strongly denounce Saudis for Mina tragedy. In a meeting with the officials of International Congress of Imam Sajjad (AS), grand Ayatollah SeyedMohammad Alavi Gorgani said Mina event was a great tragedy and Saudis incompetence would always be recorded in history....

Tehran, September 27, The Iran Project In separate remarks, a group of senior clerics in Qom including Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, Hossein Nouri Hamedani and Jafar Sobhani firmly denounced the Saudi Arabia mismanagement in the annual haj pilgrimage on Sunday. Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazicalled it a tragic incident that grieved everyone....

Tehran, June 26, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said the clerics shoulder heavy burden in safeguarding the Islamic revolution and system. President Rouhani made the remarks during Iftar (fast breaking) ceremony attended by several Iranian clerics and Friday prayer leaders in Tehran Thursday evening. 'Today, more than ever, we need unity,' President ...

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Tehran, May13, The Iran Project - Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom has urged Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to reconsider the death sentence against highly-revered Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, warning the rulers in Riyadh over the severe consequences of his execution, Tasnim News Agency reported. A group of Qom seminary scholars criticized ...

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Seminary students lead a simple and unassuming life. Unfortunately, the younger generation only knows clerics through TV. On December 22, Khorasan, a daily, ran a report on a recently-aired primetime TV series on Irans Channel One whose main characters were seminary students. The drama which had a high viewership raised questions among members of ...