Joint U.S.-UAE Film glorifies Daesh terrorists 

TEHRAN - Exposing the U.S. and the UAE propaganda, a critique published by IRNA looks at the political dimensions of the film “Mosul” and its attempts to distort historical facts

Top Iranian, Iraqi security officials meet

TEHRAN — Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, met on Monday with Ghasem Mohammad Al-Araji, Iraq’s national security advisor, in Tehran on Monday.

Joint Iran-Iraq committee to pursue Gen. Soleimani assassination

TEHRAN - The secretary of the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights has said an investigation committee set up jointly by Iran and Iraq will follow up the case of the U.S. assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

“50+One” depicts how Gen. Soleimani saved Erbil from ISIS 

TEHRAN – Director and writer Mahtab Asgari has produced a play named “50+One” that depicts how Lieutenant-General Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force, saved Erbil from ISIS in 2014 when their fighters were closing in around the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. 

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian condemns U.S. attacks on Syrian soil

TEHRAN - Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian Parliament speaker’s special aide for international affairs, has condemned the recent U.S. airstrikes on anti-terror Iraqi popular forces in eastern Syria, according to Fars news agency.

By Martin Love

Iran may be more “democratic” than the U.S. nowadays…

Can it be more evident than it now is: that U.S. foreign policy is not “for” the U.S. or its citizens but for the Zionists.

U.S., ISIS ‘brothers in arms,’ Iran says

TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has accused the U.S. government of supporting the ISIS terrorist group, describing the U.S. and ISIS as “brothers in arms.”

Iraq’s resistance against ISIS result of Ayatollah Sistani’s wisdom’: IRGC Quds Force chief

TEHRAN — The commander of the IRGC Quds Force says the Iraqi people’s resistance against the American, Zionist and Saudi-backed Daesh (ISIS) was a fruit of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s “tactfulness and wisdom”.

By Amir Mohammad Esmaeili

Corporate and government-controlled media in U.S. have lost credibility: African American author

“The armed opposition groups such as ISIS were created by U.S. intelligence agencies and the Pentagon”

TEHRAN - Abayomi Azikiwe, an African American author and journalist in Detroit, tells the Tehran Times that the owners of mainstream media in the U.S. have a vested interest in crushing the anti-racist movement and as a result, they “have lost credibility”.

Zarif says it is necessary to be aware of ISIS threat  

TEHRAN- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday underlined the need to be aware of the Daesh (ISIS) threat to the region.

Envoy felicitates Iraq over Mosul victory anniversary

TEHRAN — The Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad, Iraj Masjedi, has congratulated the Iraqi people and government on the anniversary of the liberation of Mosul from Daesh (ISIS).

Pentagon claims Iran-Syria defense deal won’t stop its efforts to fight ISIS

TEHRAN — The U.S. military has claimed that it will continue to fight Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group despite the new Iran-Syria defense deal which aims to counter increasing challenges and threats, including the threat of the terrorist groups which were initially supported by the U.S. and its allies at the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011 in order to oust Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

IRIB producing series on Daesh

TEHRAN – Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) is producing a drama series on the atrocities of the Daesh terrorists.

Tehran marks 3rd anniversary of ISIS attack on Iranian parliament

TEHRAN — Tehran has marked the third anniversary of the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist attack on Iran’s parliament, saying the attack was carried out as retaliation against success of the Resistance Front under the leadership of Major General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by the U.S. military earlier this year.

By Yuram Abdullah Weiler

Martyr Qassem Soleimani: The real shatterer of ISIS

Turning logic and rationality on its head, the psychopathic U.S. assassin-in-chief has made the absurd claim that he was the one who defeated Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) in its entirety. This is while it was none other than the whiny wimp in the White House himself who ordered the gangland style, terror execution of the Iranian hero responsible for the defeat of ISIS, Martyr Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

By Durdana Najam

Ten years on Syria is still deep in wars

Having barely risen from the menacing impact of Bashar al Assad’s poor economic policies during the drought from 2007 to 2010, that brought more poverty, unemployment and social distress, a spiral of conflict, in 201, took Syria from one warring episode to another. Ten years on, with most of the country in the rubble, there was little respite even in the news in 2018 that the US would reduce its footprints in Syria.

By staff and agency

Iraqi officials say ISIS, not Iran, behind rocket attack that Trump used to justify Soleimani assassination

In a “bombshell” revelation that calls into question one of the Trump administration’s stated justificiations for assassinating Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani—a move that nearly sparked a region-wide military conflict—Iraqi intelligence officials told the New York Times that they believe ISIS, not an Iran-linked popular forces, was likely responsible for the Dec. 27 rocket attack that killed an American contractor at an air base near Kirkuk, Iraq, Common Dreams reported on Friday.

Intl. museums, archeologist condemn Trump’s threat to hit Iranian cultural sites

TEHRAN – The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the American Alliance of Museums, and a renowned Polish archeologist have condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent statements on threating to target Iranian cultural sites.

By Payman Yazdani

What is the next step of revenge?

TEHRAN - The war against ISIS with the pivotal role of Lt. General Qassem Soleimani gained some important victories in Iraq and Syria, but it is all too clear that the threat posed by violent extremism and terrorism sponsored by Saudi Arabia will continue and grow in spite of such victories.

Leader: U.S. taking revenge on Hashd al-Shaabi for Daesh

TEHRAN — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the United States’ attacks on al-Hashd al-Shaabi was an act of retaliation against the forces for beating the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group.

By Martin Love

America has no right to slam violence (it has helped provoke or executed) anywhere

NORTH CAROLINA - From one American’s perspective, Ayatollah Khamenei jumped on Twitter this week and said something quite true even if it is not ever said nearly enough: “Our main enemy is one of the most evil, cruelest governments in the world. It supports terrorists like ISIS and the Zionists and former dictatorships such as the Shah’s in Iran and the cruel Saudi family….”

By Ramin Hossein Abadian

Paris seeking to hide support for terror in Syria through accusations

The French government urged Iran on Wednesday to refrain from destabilizing actions in Syria.

By staff and agency

Daesh relocating to Afghanistan, Zarif says

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the Islamic State, also called Daesh, is relocating its base from Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan.