IRNA - Former Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki described the conditions of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as critical and concerning. Many Muslims in Rohingya have been annoyed and some of them were forced to move to Bangladesh, Mottaki said addressing a commission held on the sidelines of the 32nd International Islamic Unity Conference that ...

Press TV - An award-winning lawyer says the stateless Rohingya Muslims must be recognized as citizens of Myanmar so that they can safely stay in the country instead of fleeing abroad. Kyaw Hla Aung, who has worked to promote the rights of the persecuted minority, demanded in an interview on Sunday that the Rohingya be given identity documents. "We ...

Press TV - The UN Secretary General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocidesays all the evidence he has received shows that the Myanmar government tried to utterly destroy Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state. On Tuesday, Adama Dieng said that if the evidence recently presented to him was proven, it would "constitute the crime of genocide....

Press TV - The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders says at least 6,700 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority group were killed in state-sponsored violence in Myanmar only in a period of one month beginning on August 25. The announcement was made by Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, ...

Press TV - A human rights group says Myanmars army has been slitting the throats of Rohingya Muslims and burning them alive. According to a Wednesday report by the group Fortify Rights, Mayanmar forces engaged in "widespread and systematic attacks" on Rohingya Muslims over the last two years. The report titled They tried to kill us all,...

IRNA Head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said on Saturday that the entitys humanitarian relief consignments to the Muslims in Myanmar will not be suspended. Talking on the sidelines of the International Poster Exhibition titled Religious Genocide in Myanmar, Ali Asqar Peyvandi said that IRCS is working to promote peace and friendship ...

Press TV - Over 600,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since violence against the persecuted minority erupted in Rakhine state in August, the United Nations say. In a report released on Sunday, the UN-led Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) said an estimated 603,000 refugees from Rakhine had crossed the border into ...

Tasnim Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi called on the countrys Foreign Ministry to adopt whatever diplomatic approaches it can to force the government of Myanmar to stop the persecution of Muslim people in the Buddhist-majority country. In a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Rahimpour in the city of Qom,...

Press TV - Human Rights Watch saysMyanmars military summarily executed and sexually assaulted dozens of Rohingya Muslims during a raid on a village in the west of the country over a month ago. According to a report released by the international human rights group on Wednesday, the Myanmar army attacked a residential compound where a large number ...

Tasnim Irans Red Crescent Society is going to deliver the third consignment of humanitarian aid to the Muslim people of Myanmar who have taken refuge in neighboring Bangladesh from a military crackdown. The new consignment of humanitarian aid, weighing 30 tons, will be sent to Bangladesh on Friday, Head of the Relief and Rescue Organization ...

IFP - Maynamars Football Federation has set some strange conditions for Iranian futsal coach, Reza Kordi, who had extended his resignation recently in protest against the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in the eastern Asian country. Myanmars Football Federation says Kordi has to meet three conditions if he wants to resign and nullify his ...

Tasnim Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on the government of Myanmar to end violence against the Rohingya Muslims, warning that disregard for the violation of the basic rights of Muslim people in Myanmar would foment extremism and destabilize the whole region. President Rouhani gave a speech to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation ...

Tasnim Iranian President Hassan Rouhani denounced the situation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as shocking and renewed his call for international pressures on the government of the Southeast Asian country to stop the genocide. Muslims in Myanmar are facing dreadful conditions and 400,000 innocent people have been displaced, President Rouhani ...

MNA Parliament's General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says that the incidents in Myanmar is a perfect example of genocide against Muslims. "Both countries of Iran and Ukraine enjoy huge capacities and potentials to develop and extend relations and cooperation, said Parliament's General Director for International ...

Press TV - Myanmars leader finally breaks her silence only to defend the bloody crackdown against Rakhine-based Rohingya Muslims, which the UN says amounts to ethnic cleansing, refusing to single out the military in the globally-condemned violence, which has triggereda massive of exodus of Muslim refugees to Bangladesh. On Tuesday, Aung San Suu ...

Press TV - Forty tons of Iran's relief aid has reached the Bangladesh border with Myanmar, where tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are stranded after fleeing what has been called "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by the UN. The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Morteza Salimi, who was on board the flight to the southeastern city ...

FNA- The Iranian foreign ministry announced that the country will send a diplomatic delegation and humanitarian aid to Bangladesh on Thursday to be sent to the Muslims in Myanmar. "The delegation, headed by Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia and Oceania Affairs Ebrahim Rahimpour, along with a team of Iran's Red Crescent Society which carries the Islamic ...

Press TV - The worlds largest Muslim organization has called on Myanmar to allow United Nations investigators into a violence-stricken state in the country where the military and Buddhist mobs are conducting systematic brutality against minority Muslims. The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) made the call after an emergency ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Ayatollah Khamenei urges action against Myanmar govt. over Rohingya Muslims Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on Islamic governments to exert political and economic pressure on Myanmars cruelgovernment to make it stop a deadly crackdown on ...

MNA Parliament's General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said time was ripe for implementing political initiatives inside Syria. He made the remarks at a meeting with Dutch Ambassador to Iran Susana Trestal on Tuesday morning in Tehran. Early into the session, Amir-Abdollahian voiced satisfaction towards growing ...