A senior Iranian lawmaker has warned of a plot by the West to wage a sectarian war in Iraq. The hegemonic system (West), led by the Americans, are trying to turn Iraq into a battlefield of religions, said the First Vice-Speaker of Irans Majlis (Parliament), Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard on Monday. The hegemonic system tries to fan the flames ...

[caption id="attachment_21012" align="alignright" width="180"] Iran"s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] Tehran, March 9, IRNA Muslims will shape the new world geometry, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Sunday. He made the remarks in an interview with IRNA. ?Second ...

The battle lines in Lebanon are drawn sharper and sharper. They are largely sectarian and tied into the bitter civil war in neighbouring Syria. On the one side are Sunni Muslim groups, especially Mustaqbal (Future), allied to Saudi Arabia and sympathetic to Syrias Sunni rebels and the Sunni jihadis from around the region fighting on their side. On ...

Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Israeli regime not only exploits sectarian strife in the Muslim world, but also uses any tension in the Middle East region in its own favor. Therefore this regimes serious concern about the trend of nuclear negotiations [between Iran and six major world powers] is obvious, Zarif said in a meeting ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator lashed out at Saudi Arabia for masterminding the terrorist attacks in the regional countries, and said Washington has tasked Riyadh with stirring religious strife among Muslims. Saudi Arabia is the US and the Zionist regimes agent in the region, member of the parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Sparking differences among Shiite and Sunni Muslims is one of the serious plots hatched by enemies against the Islamic community, a senior Iranian lawmaker said. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony to welcome Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Mohammad Reza Bahonarsaid provoking disputes among the Shiite and ...

An Iraqi group says it will launch attacks on Saudi targets if the kingdom continues to provoke sectarian violence in the region. The group, which calls itself the Mukhtar Army, also claimed responsibility for a Wednesday mortar attack, which targeted an uninhabited area of Saudi Arabia near the Iraqi border. It says the attack was carried out ...

[caption id="attachment_59283" align="alignright" width="180"] Foreign-backed militants operating in Syria (file photo)[/caption] Iran and Turkey have stated that they share common concerns over the increasingly sectarian overtones to the ongoing conflict in Syria. "I believe sectarian conflict is even a greater threat and it is not confined to one ...

Iran President Hassan Rouhani says extremism, sectarianism, violence and terrorism pose dangerous challenges to the region, calling on regional nations to counter these challenges through cooperation. President Rouhani made the remarks on Tuesday in a telephone conversation with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. The Omani monarch called ...

The Western powers and their allies in the Middle East seek to spark sectarian violence across the Middle East over their concerns over the emergence of Islamic Awakening in the region, a political analyst tellsPress TV. This democratic wave (Islamic Awakening) in the Middle East is threatening to liberate the region from this sort of a century of ...

An expert says Saudi Arabia seeks to wage a sectarian war in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, for its desperate need to save its own skin and improve its stability,Press TVreports. It [Saudi Arabia] is intent and bent on sparking and triggering a sectarian war between the Sunnis and the Shias in Iraq, in Syria and also most recently in Lebanon ...