April 13, 2016 TEHRAN – “We are happy that we are getting close to a political solution of the [Syrian] crisis,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Tuesday. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of his meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Tehran, […]
April 12, 2016 TEHRAN – A top Iranian Foreign Ministry official said on Monday Iran has been seeking to strengthen the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in line with maintaining Islamic solidarity and preventing disunity among Islamic countries. Abbas Araqchi, the deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, made […]
Source: BBC Wearing the hijab is a legal requirement for women in Iran. But a controversial Facebook campaign is calling on female tourists visiting the country to post pictures […]
Social April 6, 2016 TEHRAN – The Golden Eagle Danube Express luxury train, carrying 74 tourists from the U.S., the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Australia, arrived in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Tuesday. The tourists paid visits to Azarbaijan Museum, Blue Mosque, and Grand Bazaar and […]
Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN – On Thursday, Iran reacted angrily to the passage of a resolution which renewed the mandate of Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, for another five years. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the renewal of Shaheed’s mandate is […]
Source: Tehran Time TEHRAN —“Muslim world had made such extraordinary headway in mathematics, algebra, medicine, and the sciences in general, it was inevitable that its philosophical contribution needed to be taken seriously by medieval philosophers,” Charles Taliaferro tells the Tehran Times. Taliaferro, who teaches philosophy at St. Olaf College, says, […]
Promoted post: Book Review: To overcome the sectarian divide, first we need to learn it Happy Nowruz to all our Iranian readers form the editorial team of the Muslim Times. From […]
Source: Gulf News Tehran: Iran’s billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, a judicial official said Sunday, after a long trial in which he was accused […]
Islamic art exhibit underway at U.S. museum TEHRAN Times Art Desk TEHRAN – The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco is displaying works of Islamic art in an exhibition, which opened on February 26. The artworks are from India under the Moguls in the 16th century, Iran during the reign […]
Source: BBC Moderates and reformists have dealt another blow to Iran’s hardliners, winning all but one of the seats for Tehran in the Assembly of Experts. President Hassan Rouhani and […]
Source: Time Reformists and moderates favor expanding freedoms and engaging with the West (TEHRAN, Iran) — Partial election results in Iran on Saturday point to major gains by reformists and moderates who favor expanding freedoms and engaging with the West, and who defended the recently implemented nuclear deal with world […]
Source: BBC Allies of Iran’s reformist president, Hassan Rouhani, have won a landslide victory in Tehran, in the first elections since Iran signed a nuclear deal with world powers. With […]
Source: The Guardian The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Iran’s vice-president for women and family affairs. The […]
By Maryam Qarehgozlou TEHRAN — Imam Abdul Alim Musa (Clarence Reams), the director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington D.C., believes that the policy that the new rulers in the Saudi kingdom has adopted is “suicidal”. “Saudi Arabia has built a road to its own destruction,” Alim Musa, an African-American Muslim […]
‘England is helping Isis and an English reporter is here asking for information’ Robert Fisk @indyvoices Tuesday 23 February 2016 28 comments We knew who they were the moment they approached us on the front line outside Aleppo. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards – no longer merely advisers but fighting troops […]
Source: Reuters Saudi Arabia has put 32 people on trial, including 30 members of its own Shi’ite Muslim minority, accused of spying for Iran, several local newspapers and television reported on Monday. The 32, including an Iranian and an Afghan, were detained in 2013 sparking expressions of concern among Saudi […]
Source: Independent Forty state-run Iranian media outlets have jointly offered a new $600,000 bounty for the death of British Indian author Salman Rushdie, according to the state-run Fars News Agency. Fars […]
theguardian: by Farnoosh Amirshahi is a former parliamentary reporter for Iran’s Shargh newspaper. Rules impeding the progress of female politicians in the Islamic republic remain firmly in place and the battle to change them advances slowly Revolutionary slogans and a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini are reflected in the glasses of a […]
By AFP – Feb 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Iranian officials applaud on the platform as the first train connecting China and Iran arrives at Tehran Railway Station on Monday (AFP photo) TEHRAN — The first train to connect China and Iran arrived in Tehran on Monday loaded with Chinese […]
Source: Reuters A new smartphone application that helps Iranians dodge the Islamic Republic’s “morality police” is proving popular with the young, tech-savvy population but has quickly fallen foul of the […]