Iran’s Supreme National Security Council met on the latest terror attacks in the southeastern city of Kerman, making decisions aimed at accelerating the process to identify and punish the perpetrators of the terrorist act. The SNSC met on Thursday in Tehran, a day after two explosions rocked an area near …
Read More »Following Kerman terror attack; Iran begins taking ‘legal measures’ through UN
Iran’s foreign minister says the country has started taking “legal measures” through the United Nations after two terror blasts killed and injured hundreds of people in the southwestern city of Kerman. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian announced the information in a post on X, former Twitter, on Wednesday, hours after the explosions that …
Read More »New Zealand: Christchurch Mosque terror attack hearing re-scheduled
A hearing on the scope of a coronial inquiry into the Christchurch Mosque attacks in New Zealand will be postponed to early next year to allow families more time to prepare submissions. Last month, Chief Coroner Judge Deborah Marshall said she had started an inquiry into the terror attack that …
Read More »French Anti-terror police search and interrogate 10-year-old Muslim children for over 11 hours
“Racist and Islamophobic discourse of French leaders were imposed on underage children, and their future would be adversely shaped by such motives,” he warned
Read More »Why Has Islamophobia Risen in America?
Fair Observer talks to Arun Kundnani, the author of “The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror.
Read More »Sanders announces bill to block funds for war against Iran
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) followed an angry attack on Donald Trump’s ordered airstrike assassination of Iran’s top military commander with the announcement of a new bill to block funding for a war against Iran — unless Congress approves. Sanders announced the bill at a campaign stop Saturday …
Read More »New York Times: Assassination of Qassim Suleimani, Trump’s escape plan from impeachment
Coming as Mr. Trump awaits Senate trial on his impeachment by the House of Representatives, the president’s ordering of the assassination raised discomfiting questions about his motive. Editorial asked: “What about the promise to end endless wars, Mr. President?” In an editorial in the New York Times, the rationality of …
Read More »Iran mourns Soleimani as top general’s body returns home
Tides of mourners accompanied the casket carrying the remains of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani through major Iranian cities Sunday as part of a grand funeral ceremony across the Islamic Republic for the commander assassinated by an American airstrike in Iraq on January 3. After tens of thousands in Baghdad, Najaf …
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