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2021/01/24
By Azin Sahabi
Baghdad explosions and the plausible new U.S. orders for the old wounds
On Thursday morning, only a day after the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden, Baghdad witnessed twin suicide bombings in a busy market that killed 32 people and wounded more than 100 others. The attack took place in the same area in 2018 shortly after then-Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi declared victory over the terrorist group. As expected, ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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2021-01-23 10:19
Iran says terror acts aimed to provide pretext for foreign presence in Iraq
Iranian parliament speaker sympathizes with Iraqis
TEHRAN– Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, on Thursday denounced the terror attacks in Baghdad which killed and wounded a number of civilians.
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2021-01-19 12:20
By Amir Mohammad Esmaeili
Today the Resistance is stronger than ever before: Syrian American analyst
TEHRAN - Steven Sahiounie, a Syrian American award-winning journalist, tells the Tehran Times that although the U.S. and its regional allies “have pumped billions of dollars” in West Asia and have assassinated resistance leaders, the Axis of Resistance is stronger than ever before.
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2021-01-04 11:14
By Mohammad Homaeefar
Professor says General Soleimani’s legacy will be determined by his leadership in fighting ISIS
TEHRAN - Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute, commends Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani’s leadership in the war against terrorists, especially ISIS, in Iraq and Syria.
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2021-01-04 11:04
Assassination of Gen. Soleimani ‘was a flagrant instance of state terrorism’: Richard Falk
International law professor says Iran is “active both in struggle against non-state and state terrorism”
TEHRAN – The assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani by the United States in January 2020 “was a flagrant instance of state terrorism,” says Richard Anderson Falk, a professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University.
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2021-01-03 20:54
Soleimani played ‘vital role’ in fighting terrorism: American analyst
TEHRAN – An American political analyst says Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani played a “vital” role in fighting against terrorism in the region, especially the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group.
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2021-01-03 10:55
By Mohammad Mazhari
Soleimani is martyr of ‘Islamic unity’: Iraqi analyst
TEHRAN – An Iraqi analyst says that martyr General Soleimani succeeded to defeat Daesh through establishing unity between resistance groups and people in West Asia.
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2020-12-28 11:31
By Chang Hua, Chinese Ambassador to Iran
Joint response to terrorism under the new circumstances
TEHRAN- Currently, the global fight against terrorism has made important progress. However, terrorist activities remain rampant, the breeding ground is yet to be eradicated. Frequent terrorist attacks around the world remind us that terrorism has never gone away. International counter-terrorism cooperation still has a long way to go and must be strengthened, not weakened.
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2020-12-25 17:03
Assassination of Fakhrizadeh from the perspective of international law
A virtual prior congress on international law concerning the armed conflict in the region with the theme of the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh from the viewpoint of international law was held on December 9 at the University of Qom.
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2020-12-04 19:55
Tehran censures double standard in dealing with terrorism
TEHRAN — Tehran has called on the UN and its Human Rights Council to stop their selective approach toward human rights issues and condemn the recent assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as an act of terrorism.
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2020-12-01 18:13
Ghalibaf urges world to break silence against terrorist acts
TEHRAN — Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has urged the international community to break its silence over the assassination of Iran’s senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, saying silence in the face of terrorist acts threatens peace and security in the region.
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2020-11-13 20:09
Ringleader of the group behind Ahvaz terror attack arrested
TEHRAN – Iran’s intelligence forces have arrested the ringleader of a separatist militant group behind the 2018 deadly terror attack in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, Press TV reported.
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2020-11-03 22:36
Iran condemns terrorist attack in Austria
TEHRAN – Saeed Khatibzadeh, the spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, condemned on Tuesday the terrorist attack in Austria, expressing sympathy with the families of the victims of the attack.
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2020-10-30 13:33
Zarif condemns Nice attack, urges sanity
TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced the Thursday terrorist attack in the French city of Nice that killed at least three citizens, saying this “vicious cycle” which is result of hate speech “must be replaced by reason and sanity”
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2020-09-12 00:21
9/11 attacks and U.S. ‘selective’ war on terrorism
TEHRAN – The September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. marked a turning point in the U.S. foreign policy toward West Asia, where the U.S. waged several wars to allegedly fight terrorism. However, analysts tell the Tehran Times the U.S. did little to combat terrorism and its wars on terror have been selective at best.
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2020-09-11 01:17
9/11 nineteen years later: U.S. ‘endless’ wars continue unabated
TEHRAN – The September 11 attacks on the U.S. marked a turning point in the U.S. foreign policy toward Central and West Asia and opened the way for neo-conservatives in Washington to wage “endless” wars against countries in the region, according to a West Asia expert.
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2020-09-10 20:33
Human rights NGO releases first annual report on terrorism in Iran
TEHRAN - Habilian Association, an Iranian Human Rights NGO conducting studies on terror victims in Iran, has released its first annual report on terrorism in Iran.
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2020-09-04 18:55
By Mohammad Homaeefar
Charlie Hebdo and the making of terrorists
TEHRAN — In a reckless, provocative move, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday republished the same cartoons about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that prompted a deadly attack on the magazine in 2015.
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2020-07-25 18:11
Victims of terror slam Iran International for promoting terror cult
TEHRAN — Iranian victims of terrorism and their families have written a letter to the Judiciary and the Foreign Ministry calling for legal proceedings against the management of the Iran International TV.
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2020-07-01 17:51
Envoy terms Saudi Arabia as ‘central bank of terrorism’
TEHRAN — Iranian Ambassador to Belgium Gholamhossein Dehghani has called Saudi Arabia as the “central bank of terrorism” and the main sponsor of extremism in the region and beyond, IRNA reported on Wednesday.
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2020-06-26 16:41
Iran cites economic and medical terrorism against Iranians as examples of U.S. terrorist measures
Tehran categorically rejects U.S. report on terrorism
TEHRAN — Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has said the United States, as the world’s most infamous terrorist regime, is in no position to judge other countries.
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2020-05-15 16:58
U.S. ‘not a good yardstick’ for measuring anti-terror efforts: Tehran
TEHRAN — The United States is not a good yardstick for measuring anti-terrorism efforts, Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has said, hinting at Washington’s history of founding, funding and arming different terrorist groups.
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2020-04-19 19:44
U.S. distracting world attention from its economic terrorism: Iranian envoy
TEHRAN — The United States is trying to distract world attention from its economic terrorism waged against the people of Iran, says Tehran’s ambassador to the United Nations.
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2020-02-25 18:58
Zarif: Coronavirus, like terrorism, knows no bounds
TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said like other viruses, including terrorism, coronavirus knows no borders, calling for more regional cooperation to combat it.
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2020-01-12 19:18
Soleimani assassination is at least international terrorism, says Chomsky
TEHRAN — Renowned American scholar Noam Chomsky believes the assassination of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani is at least an act of international terrorism.
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2019-12-18 14:53
By Javad Heirannia
Changing label of Iran’s sanctions to make it harder to remove sanctions: Nephew
TEHRAN –Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the US team negotiating with Iran, is of the opinion that “It is true that this is the Trump Administration's intention: to make it much harder to remove the sanctions in the future because now entities and individuals are considered "terrorists" in addition to "proliferators".”
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2019-12-02 18:56
Economic terrorism kills, Zarif tweets
TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged the European parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement to carry out their “minimal human duty” of selling pharmaceuticals to Iran.
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2019-11-19 19:17
We will certainly defeat terrorists, Rouhani says in meeting with Pakistan commander
TEHRAN – In a meeting with a high-ranking Pakistani military commander in Tehran on Tuesday, President Hassan Rouhani said that the terrorist groups will be definitely defeated by reliance on the firm will of the two friendly nations of Iran and Pakistan.
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2019-10-28 17:05
Daeshism still exists, not ended by al-Baghdadi's death
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said that the US-claimed death of ISIL ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does not end terrorism and operations of the notorious terrorist group, warning that recruitment of remnants of the ISIL terrorists by Washington is still possible.
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2019-10-26 00:29
NAM capable of neutralizing US sanctions: Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has censured the United States for dominating the international monetary system and misusing dollar, saying the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is capable of countering Washington's illegitimate actions and making its sanctions ineffective.
