TEHRAN (Tasnim) Along with millions of Muslims and others around the world, Muslims residing in Sydney, Australia, commemorated Ashura, which marks the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shia Imam. They held a mourning procession in Sydney on Wednesday, marching from the city center to the Opera Square. The participants ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Australian football team claimed its first ever Asian Cup title on Saturday. Australia defeated South Korea 2-1 at the Stadium Australia in Sydney. Massimo Luongo put Australia ahead in the first half of regular time with a sizzling finish, receiving a good pass from Trent Sainsbury. But South Korea got a deserved ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The massacre of schoolchildren at the hands of the Pakistani Taliban was the dominant front-page story in Iranian newspapers on Wednesday. A bloody day in Peshawar, ...

[caption id="attachment_101256" align="alignright" width="221"] Ali Akbar Velayati, the president of the Center for Strategic Research of Irans Expediency Council[/caption] Tehran, Dec 17, IRNA - Head of Strategic Studies Center of the Expediency Council Ali Akbar Velayati on Wednesday criticized Australia for letting Sydney hostage taker go free....

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Marie Donovan, Warren Marshall, and Dianna Timmerman. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online. Key takeaway:Jafari dismissed reports of ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 27 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Mondays deadly hostage taking in a caf in Sydney, Australia appeared on the front pages of most Iranian dailies on Tuesday. Also on the front pages were the comments ...

A political commentator says the Australian intelligence service has been behind the recent hostage taking at a caf in Sydney, Press TV reports. I would look first of all to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) of somehow being involved in this, Webster Griffin Tarpley, an American author and historian, told Press TV on Tuesday,...

Iran has vehemently condemned hostage taking at a caf in the Australias most populous city of Sydney. Resorting to inhumane methods and creating terror and panic in the name of the divine religion of Islam is not justifiable under any circumstances, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Monday. She noted that the Australian police ...

SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in Sydney for the victims of a central city cafe siege which left three people dead. Abbott laid a bouquet of white flowers at the memorial in Martin Place while his wife Margie laid a bouquet of red flowers. Abbott also wrote a message and waved at the crowd ...

[caption id="attachment_136959" align="alignright" width="189"] A injured hostage is wheeled to an ambulance after shots were fired ending a cafe siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 16. (Photo: Rob Griffith, AP)[/caption] A tense, 16-hour Australian hostage standoff ended with an eruption of gunfire ...

(Reuters) - An Iranian refugee known for sending hate mail to the families of Australian soldiers killed overseas and facing several charges of sexual assault is the armed man holding an unknown number of hostages in a Sydney cafe, a police source said on Tuesday. Man Haron Monis, a self-styled sheikh, remained holed up in the cafe some 15 hours after ...

[caption id="attachment_136931" align="alignright" width="189"] Armed Australian police officers run toward Lindt Cafe on Philip St, Martin Place, in Sydney, Australia, on December 15, 2014.[/caption] More than forty Australian Muslim groups have strongly condemned the acts of gunmen who are holding an undisclosed number of people hostage at a chocolate ...

[caption id="attachment_136726" align="alignright" width="181"] Police officers position themselves at a corner near Lindt cafe in Martin Place, where hostages are being held, in central Sydney December 15, 2014. | Photo: Reuters[/caption] Dozens of people are being held, withimagesshowinga flagon the window resemblingthat of the Islamic Stateextremists....

[caption id="attachment_136773" align="alignright" width="178"] A hostage runs toward police from a cafe in Sydney's central business district where an armed gunman is holding an undisclosed number of people hostage on Monday, December 15. She was one of five people seen fleeing the building.[/caption] Sydney (CNN)-- Five people have fled from a cafe ...