Tehran, Oct 12, IRNA Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi on Wednesday strongly condemned the terrorist attack on Ashura mourners in different cities across Nigeria. 'It is necessary that the savage and violent acts of extremist forces and the affiliates of Wahhabi circles against Shiites and Imam Hossein (PBUH) mourners be stopped and their ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 11 (MNA) The Judicial Commission of inquiry into the killings of at least 1000 civilians in the northern city of Zaria has found army and state officials have buried 347 victims in a mass grave shortly after the massacre. Speaking on the third day of the JCI, convened by the state government of Kaduna, state official Lawal Babalare ...

Thousands of Nigerians have taken to the streets to demand the release of imprisoned Shia cleric and leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky. The demonstrators, mostly women, staged a rally in the northeastern city of Bauchi on Monday, denouncing the incarceration of the cleric, his wife and hundreds of other ...

Tehran, Jan 12, IRNA - Photographs have emerged showing the site of desecrated graves belonging to victims of last year's Al-Quds Day massacre in which soldiers opened fire on a peaceful procession organised by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, said the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission. The pictures show smashed gravestones at the burial ...

Muslims have held demonstrations in several cities in northern Nigeria to protestthe recent killings of Shias by the country'sarmed forces. People took to the streets in the cities of Kano, Katsina and Sokoto on Thursday to both express outrage at the atrocity and mark the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him). The protesters ...

Tehran, Dec 23, IRNA - 'Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky has never identified himself as a leader of a sect, or the Islamic movement as a sect. The Islamic movements main agenda is to oppose injustice and anyone from anywhere including non-Muslims are welcome to join the movement.' Nusaibah Ibraheem Zakzaky, the daughter of Allama Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the ...

Tehran, December 20, The Iran Project Kicking off the registrations for both Iran's Assembly of Experts and Parliament across Iran and Iranians protest against the massive killing of Shia Muslims in Nigeria dominated Irans media outlets in the past week (Dec.14-Dec.20).   Int'l ELECOMP expo kicks off in Tehran [caption id="" align="alignnone" ...

Alwaght- The massacring of the Shia Muslims, which has left many people of the country dead, while not receiving much attention by the international media, on the regional media the news focus about it was limited to presenting some news or analyses without deliberating on the whole case. The incident which took place at the hands of the Nigerian ...

Qom, Dec 19, IRNA Vice-Chairman of Assembly of Experts strongly criticized Saudi Arabia for taking side with the Nigerian army in the massacre of Shia Muslims of the African country. 'The Saudi Arabia's coalition with the US and arrogant powers is blatant example of friendship of blasphemers; the Saudi king's congratulation to the perpetrators ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (MNA) Islamic group in India has issued a statement condemning arrest of Sheikh Zakzaky and killing of hundreds of Muslims in Nigeria. Here is the text of the statement: It is very sad and tragic event that took place in Nigeria. The Leader of the Islamic Movement Ayatullah Sheikh Zakzaky has been attacked by the Army of the ...

The civilized world has been shocked by the recent massacre in the Nigerian city of Zaria, where a peaceful gathering of Shias Muslims for celebrating birthday anniversary of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) was deliberately targeted by the military, which is believed to take orders from the US, the Zionist entity, and Arab reactionary regimes, such as Saudi ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The comments of President Rouhani that his administration has honored the promise it made to the nation dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Thursday....

LONDON The State Department urged the Nigerian government on Wednesday to investigate reports of a large number of deaths over the weekend in clashes between the military and a Shia Muslim sect. The American Embassy in Nigeria said in a statement that the United States was deeply concerned about reports of the clashes, which began on Saturday afternoon ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigerian troops Wednesday buried the bodies of hundreds of victims of an alleged military massacre of Shia Muslims to hide the death toll, the Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria said. Wednesday's allegation comes as human rights advocates and the United States called for an investigation following the army's raid on Nigerian ...

Senior Iranian official Akbar HashemiRafsanjani has condemned the Nigerian militarys bloody crackdown on the Shia Muslim community in the African country. Rafsanjani, who is chairman of Iran's Expediency Council, on Wednesday denounced the recent raid on the house of the revered Nigerian Shia cleric, Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, and the killing of a large ...

Iranian protesters stage rally�in front of the Nigerian embassy in Tehran and�in front of the UN office in Mashhad on Tuesday to condemn the mass killing of the Shia Muslims by the Nigerian army. By Fars News Agency    

Alwaght- Boko Haram is Nigerias number one enemy and that is an irrefutable fact. However, in the past few days, the Nigerian army has launched a heavy-handed attack against the Shia Muslims of the northern Kaduna state. This has triggered a wave of anger in the country where authorities are apparently targeting the innocent instead of focusing all ...

Tehran, Dec 15, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani in a phone talk with his Nigerian counterpart on Tuesday said that a group of countries are sowing the seeds of discord among world Muslims, stressing that increased awareness is a dire necessity under the prevailing conditions. In his phone talks with President Muhammadu Buhari the Iranian political ...

Hundreds of people have staged a demonstration in Britain to denounce the recent massacre of Shia Muslims in Nigeria and demand that all the perpetrators be brought to justice. On Monday evening, the protesters converged outside the High Commission of Nigeria in London for a rally organized by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), chanting ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   No credible sign of diversion in Iran nuclear material: IAEA The International Atomic EnergyAgency (IAEA) once again reaffirms the peaceful nature of Irans nuclear program, saying the body has no credible indications of a diversion of nuclear material toward non-civilian purposes....