Iranian university students and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have staged a rally to condemn Egyptian police's violent crackdown on protesters. Hundreds of students coupled with members of various NGOs gathered outside Egypts interests section in Tehran on Thursday, chanting slogans in condemnation of Egyptian police brutality against civilians....

[caption id="attachment_110868" align="alignright" width="158"] Riot police attempt to break open the entrance of the al-Azhar University Campus during clashes with female university students, who are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, in Cairo's Nasr City district, March 19, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/AMR ABDALLAH ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - At least four people were killed as clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and police flared up across Egypt on Friday, security sources said. The violence erupted a day before Egyptian authorities are expected to announce official results of this week's referendum on a new constitution, part of an army-backed transition ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Combatant Clerics Assembly in a letter called on the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to take the necessary measures to prevent further bloodshed in Egypt. The Iranian clerics in a letter to OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu condemned the recent killings of a large number of Egyptian civilians during ...

An Iranian lawmaker says continuation of violence in Egypt will turn the North African country into another Syria which has been grappling with over two years of foreign-backed turmoil. If the spiraling violence goes on in the land of Pharaohs (Egypt), we must definitely expect the emergence of radical Salafist forces and al-Qaeda in Egypt, whichwill ...

Egypt's interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said in an interview Tuesday it would be a mistake if the United States cut off military aid but insisted Cairo could survive without it. A possible move by Washington to stop US weapons deliveries and other assistance to Egypt "will be a bad sign and will badly affect the military for some time," Beblawi ...

Former Egyptian Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei has been sued for resigning during the recent unrest in his country. According to Reuters, the case was brought against the former vice president over his betrayal of trust by a law professor. "I raised a case against Dr. ElBaradei. He was appointed in his capacity as a representative of the [National ...

Tehran, Aug 20, IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi voiced regret and concern over the escalating violence in Egypt and urged immediate halt to the killings, violence and arrests in that Arab country. Talking to reporters during his weekly press briefing here Tuesday, he commented on the arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood leader and continued ...

Ousted Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, has been accused of complicity in the deaths and torture of demonstrators outside his presidential palace in 2012, judicial sources say. On Monday, Egypts prosecution extended Morsis detention for another 15 days which starts from next week. He already stands accused of crimes related to his 2011 escape from ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator lashed out at the US and Israel for hatching plots against the Egyptian nation. The US and Zionists are plotting to keep Egypt in a backward situation, member of the parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Saleh Jokar said on Monday. Jokar stressed that Washington and Tel ...

Former Egyptian Vice President ElBaradei arrived in Vienna following his resignation on Wednesday VIENNA (AA) - Former Egyptian Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, who left his post to protest Wednesday's violent dispersal of sit-ins staged by supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, arrived in Vienna late on Sunday. Serving as the Director ...

Syrian refugees in Turkey's southern province of Hatay expressed support for the supporters of Egypt's ousted President Morsi HATAY (AA) - Syrian refugees, in Turkey's southern province of Hatay, who fled the more than three-year old conflict in their country, expressed support for the supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi making ...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the Islamic Republic is concerned about the conflict in Egypt, which has left scores dead in the country. The Islamic Republic of Iran is very upset about the current situation in Egypt because Egypt is an outstanding country in both the Arab world and the Islamic world, Larijani said in an interview with ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Iranian legislator lashed out at the US and Israel for hatching plots against the Egyptian nation, and reiterated that Washington and Tel Aviv are behind the ongoing crisis in Egypt. This scenario has been designed by the West, specially the US and Israel, to suppress the Egyptian revolution and make the Arab country ...

Egypt's interim Foreign Minster Nabil Fahmy has defended the army's recent heavy-handed crackdown on thousands of the supporters of ousted president, Mohamed Morsi. Speaking at a press conference in the capital Cairo, Fahmy said the interim government has exercised restraint in dealing with the protesters and will continue to do so. Fahmy said ...

Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed concern over the massacre of innocent people in Egypt, urging an end to the ongoing bloodshed in the North African country through democratic means. In a telephone conversation with Egypts interim Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy on Sunday, Zarif called for recourse to peaceful and democratic means ...

Senior Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Hassan Asafari has warned of a US-Israeli plot which seeks to trigger Syria-style civil war and violence in Egypt. An American-Zionist plot seeks to plunge [Egypts capital] Cairo into civil war and massacre of people like [in Syrias capital] Damascus, Asafari said on Sunday. Given the fact that the US was opposed ...

Egyptians security forces removed pro Morsi Muslim Brotherhood supporters out of the al-Fatah mosque and through angry crowds, after hundreds of Islamist protesters barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight, following a day of fierce street battles that left scores of people dead, near Ramses Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Authorities say ...

Tehran, Aug 18, IRNA The Islamic Propagation Coordination Council said in a statement on Sunday that commitment to Constitution, respect for peoples votes and holding national talks are only ways to settle the existing crisis in Egypt. The statement also condemned killing of innocent people by the Egyptian army. There is no doubt that the one-...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A high-ranking Iranian parliamentarian expressed deep concern over the recent incidents in Egypt, and called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to hold an emergency foreign ministerial meeting to discuss the latest developments in the Muslim country. Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign ...