By Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Dozens of Iranians angered over an anti-Islam film made in the U.S. and caricatures of the C published in a weekly in France have attacked the French Embassy in Tehran.
Shop vendors and residents in the area say protesters smashed a police guard post outside the embassy and a bulletin board at the embassy ...
By Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An official says Iran should boycott the 2013 Oscars in the wake of the anti-Islam film that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.
Javad Shamaghdari, from the government-controlled cinema agency, says Iran should "avoid" the Hollywood festival.
The semi-official Mehr news agency on Monday quoted Shamaghdari ...
By Washington Post
TEHRAN, Iran Irans top leader is urging the West to show it respects Muslims by blocking a film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad and has touched off rage across the Islamic world.
State TV quotes Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying Western leaders must prove they are not accomplices in a big crime.
But such an appeal falls ...
Widespread protests have been staged outside US embassies across the Muslim world after an anti-Islam movie made in the United States, The Innocence of Muslims, started circulating the YouTube website on Tuesday.
According to the Wall Street Journal,an Israeli-American man known under the alias of Sam Bacile, reportedly a real estate developer, ...
By AFP
TEHRAN Iran has condemned a film insulting Islam that sparked a deadly protest in Libya killing the US ambassador, while Iranian media reported an anti-US protest over the movie would take place in Tehran on Thursday.
A foreign ministry statement slammed the film, an amateur production made in the United States, as "repulsive" and said ...
By The Guardian
President says plummeting value of rial is fault of enemies abroad and at home, not his government's economic policies
Iran's beleaguered president,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has blamed the plummeting value of the national currency on a "psychological war" perpetrated by enemies abroad and opponents at home.
Speaking as the rial ...
By Reuters
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged world leaders on Tuesday to put an end to the intolerance and violence that led to the recent killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya and warned Iran he would do what it takes to prevent Tehran from getting nuclear arms.
In a 30-minute address to the 193-nation U.N. General ...
By The Daily Star
TEHRAN: Iran announced on Monday it was yanking its entry in the Oscars race because of the "intolerable insult" of the US-made anti-Islam film that has angered Muslims in several countries.
Oscars organizers in Los Angeles said they had not heard officially from Iranian authorities, after the announcement in Tehran by Culture ...
Iran has blocked Google search engine and Gmail over the companys refusal to remove the anti-Islam movie that insults Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) from You Tube service.
Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, Iranian official with the state-run body in charge of online censorship and computer crimes, said on Sunday that Google and Gmail would be blocked until further ...
By Fox News
TEHRAN, Iran The Iranian president has lashed out at the West over an anti-Islam film produced in the United States and the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a French satirical weekly.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that "in return for (allowing) the ugliest insults to the divine messenger, they -- the West -- raise ...
Referring to the recent American movie desecrating Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)., Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei says that since the enemies feel backwardness against raging waves of the Islamic awakening, they take such insane and deplorable measures.
Addressing army cadets in Iran's Northern port city of Noshahr ...
By Reuters
(Reuters) - Iran's government will "track down" those responsible for making an amateurish film clip mocking the Prophet Mohammad, a senior official said, Iranian media reported on Monday.
The video made in California and posted on YouTube portrayed the Prophet Mohammad as a womanizer and a fool. It has ignited a week of violent protests ...
By Al-Manar
As anger is at its peak all around the Islamic worldat the US produced anti-Islam movie that offended Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), award-winning Iranian director Majid Majidi announced that his new movie on Prophet Mohammad's life is almost completed.
The movie, which cost over 30 million dollars - the highest budget spent on a film in ...
By MSN India
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has blamed the US and Israel for the production of an anti-Islam movie that insults Prophet Mohammad.
In a message issued on Thursday, Khamenei said that "behind this evil move lie the antagonistic policies of the Zionists and the US and other heads of the global arrogance", reported Press ...
By The Journal of Turkish Weekly
Former Iranian President, reforminst Mohammad Khatami has sent a letter to Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu regarding the anti-Islam film, Mehr reported.
Director Sam Bacile's two hour film attacking Islam's Prophet Muhammad sparked angry assaults by ultra-...
By UPI
TEHRAN, Sept. 13 (UPI) --The Iraniangovernment expressed frustration that Washington hadn't come out with a public criticism of a film seen as insulting to Islam.
Anti-American sentiment turned deadly this week in Libya after the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi was attacked, leaving several diplomats, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens,...