Tehran, April 8, IRNA - Secretary of the World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought, Ayatollah Mohsen Araki said here on Wednesday that no danger is worse than religious wars and militancy. Araki made the remarks in a meeting with Kazakh Ambassador to Iran Baghdad Amiriyev and Kazakh president's special representative Ahmadov....

Yazd, Nov 27, IRNA Speaker of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) Ali Larijani on Thursday said Iran is playing a more vital role in resolving regional and international problems than ever. During the past decade, religious disputes as well as Wahabi and Salafi extremist tendencies have created a specific situation in the region, Larijani said addressing ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati said the phenomenon of Takfir (extremism) today serves as a tool in the hands of the Israeli regime for preventing Muslims from making progress. Today, the Muslim world is facing plots and the phenomenon of extremism is mostly used by the Zionists in line with their ...

Tehran, March 10, IRNA Secretary-General of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening Ali Akbar Velayati stressed the need for the unity of the Islamic nations, noting that the Islamic Awakening is against all kinds of extremism and Takfiri moves. Addressing the opening session of the sixth meeting of the Supreme Council of the assembly here, Velayati ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Ambassador to Beirut Qazanfar Roknabadiand former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora voiced concern over the presence of Takfiri groups in Syria and their links to the Israeli intelligence bodies, and called for more security cooperation between the two nations to protect Lebanon from this evil phenomenon. We all agree ...

A top Iranian lawmaker says Tehran is strongly opposed to radicalism and extremism in the region. The policy of Islam for Islamic countries is a strategy based on moderation and, the Islamic Republic flatly opposes radicalism and extremism in the region, said Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Irans Majlis Alaeddin ...

[caption id="attachment_73710" align="alignright" width="180"] A militant is seen clashing with Syrian government forces in the Salaheddin neighborhood of Syria's Aleppo on December 11, 2013.[/caption] Tehran, Jan 30, IRNA - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday that extremism in the Middle East region might engulf other parts of ...

The Geneva nuclear agreement between Iran and P5+1 in November 2013 has entered its executive phase. During the past two months, the agreement has been evaluated from different angles. One way is also to ask what would have happened if the agreement had not been concluded? First,the US Congress would have had more excuses to push for further crippling ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 7 (MNA) Irans FM has said in a meeting with Tunisian ambassador that extremism knows no Shia and no Sunni. Khalid al-Zaytouni, who is in the final part of his mission as ambassador to Tehran, met with Mohammad Javad Zarif, Irans foreign minister. The Islamic Republic of Iran respects Tunisia as the pioneer of revolution and evaluates ...

Bandar Abbas, Jan 3, IRNA Threat of extremism of any type, materialism, religious, and terrorism, is the greatest threat for the world nations today, President Hassan Rohanis special advisor for religious ethnic groups and minorities affairs said here Friday. Words spoken, or sentences written aimed at sowing the seeds of discord by anyone, are beyond ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in a meeting with Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek in Tehran on Sunday, urged sagacious religious leaders to prevent extremists from fueling tensions and sparking sectarian wars in the region, specially in the Muslim countries. Rafsanjani pointed to the recent ...