Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the US administration’s efforts seeking to designate Ansarullah Movement of Yemen as a terrorist group.
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UN rejects US decision against Ansarullah
January 12, 2021 - 7:56 AMThe United Nations rejected on Monday the US decision seeking to designate Ansarullah as a “terrorist organization.”
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Muslim scholars urge economic boycott of Israel
January 4, 2021 - 1:34 PMThe International Union of Muslim Scholars has called for a mass boycott of Israel over its occupation of Arab territories, and attacks on Muslims in Palestine and Syria’s Golan Heights.
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Series of webinars on Haj Qasem Soleimani will be held on Monday
December 28, 2020 - 8:16 AMOn the occasion of the first anniversary of the martyrdom of General Soleimani, the Universal Congress of the Lovers of the Ahl al-Bayt (as) will hold series of webinars.
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IHRC urges UN to investigate murder of Iranian nuclear scientist
December 26, 2020 - 7:56 AMIHRC is urging the United Nations to investigate the murder of an Iranian nuclear scientist last month.
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Muslim scholar offers his COVID-19 vaccine for free by UN
December 15, 2020 - 1:38 PMProfessor of Immunology at University of Mainz, Germany Ugur Sahin offered his COVID-19 vaccine for free access under the auspices of the United Nations.
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Iran's Ambassador to UN urges West to put aside politicizing chemical weapons
December 12, 2020 - 10:54 AMIran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi called on the Western states not to politicize issues consistent with prohibition of chemical weapons.
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UNGA adopts five anti-Israeli resolutions
December 3, 2020 - 10:45 AMThe United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved five anti-Israeli resolutions, which are part of a package of 20 pro-Palestinian texts that the 193-member body adopts on an annual basis.
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UNHCR hails Iran for giving nationality to children born to foreign fathers
December 3, 2020 - 8:30 AMUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomed and appreciated the Iranian government’s move to give nationality to thousands of children born to Iranian mothers and non-Iranian fathers.
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US sanctions prevent Iran from buying medical equipment: UN Rapporteur
December 3, 2020 - 7:51 AMUN Special Rapporteur said that the US has imposed sanctions on companies that were trying to supply Iran with ventilators.
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Israeli siege cost Gaza Strip $16.7 billion: UN
November 26, 2020 - 11:54 AMThe United Nations (UN) says the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip has cost the densely-populated Palestinian enclave an estimated $16.7 billion in economic losses and sent poverty and unemployment skyrocketing.
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U.N. chief says Yemen in imminent danger of famine, warns against unilateral moves
November 21, 2020 - 8:19 AMUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says war-torn Yemen is on the verge of facing “the worst famine” the world has seen “for decades”, warning against any unilateral moves as the United States threatens to blacklist the Houthi Ansarullah movement, whose fighters significantly help the Yemeni army against an invading Saudi-led military coalition.
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Iran's envoy to UN: UNSC is facing legitimacy crisis
November 17, 2020 - 9:03 AMIran's ambassador to the United Nations, Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi, stated the Security Council is facing a crisis of legitimacy and credibility due to poor performance, passivity, and in some cases, illegal and extra-legal actions.
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Iran’s UN envoy:
US should end arbitrary detention, harassing Iranian citizens
November 11, 2020 - 9:31 AMIran’s Permanent Ambassador to Vienna-based International Organizations said that the United States should end arbitrary detentions and harassment of Iranian citizens.
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US violated ICJ’s ruling to lift sanctions against Iran: Envoy to UN
November 4, 2020 - 8:04 AMIran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations says the US has violated a binding ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that ordered Washington to lift some of its unilateral sanctions against Tehran.
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Important letter from Muslim Doctors Association over insulting Holy Prophet (PBUH) in France
November 3, 2020 - 3:28 PMFollowing the French President's insult to the Prophet of Islam, the International Charitable Foundation of Muslim and followers of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) Doctors sent a message to the French Doctors Without Borders France.
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Rising anger in Muslim world over France Islamophobia
October 28, 2020 - 8:06 AMThe salvo of criticism and condemnation comes on the heels of a nationwide crackdown launched by the French president on so-called ‘radical Islam’ with the promise of even tougher action following the murder of a teacher by a Chechen teenager on October 16.
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Muslims observe passing of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), martyrdom of Imam Hasan (AS)
October 16, 2020 - 2:17 PMToday coincides with the 28th day of the lunar month of Safar, which marks the passing of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as well as the martyrdom of his grandson Imam Hassan (PBUH), the second Shia Imam.
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UNSC urges immediate halt to Karabakh fighting
September 30, 2020 - 7:46 AMThe United Nations Security Council has called for an immediate halt to the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and a return to constructive talks over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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Saudi Arabia, UAE used cluster bombs in Yemen’s Hudaydah: UN
September 2, 2020 - 12:15 PMA United Nations official says Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the key members of a coalition waging war on Yemen, have deployed cluster bombs against a residential neighborhood in the country’s coastal western province of Hudaydah.
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Iran's UN envoy: US not entitled to use trigger mechanism
September 1, 2020 - 9:14 AMAhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Iran's Ambassador and Permanent representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi said that the legal reasonings by the majority of UN Security Council member-states and the sum-up by its president is rigid and clear on the basis of which the US is notg authorized to use snapback mechanism of the past sanctions.
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UNSC rejects US resolution to extend Iran arms embargo
August 15, 2020 - 7:54 AMThe United Nations Security Council has rejected a US resolution to extend an arms embargo on Iran that is due to expire in October, as Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit of world leaders to avoid "confrontation" over an American threat to trigger a return of all UN sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
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Assassinating General Soleimani violation of Iraq territorial integrity: UN
August 6, 2020 - 9:27 AMIn its latest report, the United Nations on Wed. said that the United States has violated Iraqi territorial integrity by assassinating former IRGC Quds Force Commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
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Israel must immediately halt ‘collective punishment’ against Palestinians: UN expert
July 18, 2020 - 7:45 AMA UN human rights expert said Friday Israel should immediately halt what amounts to “collective punishment” against Palestinian people, which is “most strikingly seen” in its continuing closure of Gaza.
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Seven children, two women killed in coalition airstrike on Yemen's Hajjah: UN
July 14, 2020 - 8:09 AMThe UN Resident Coordinator in Yemen, Lise Grande, said that the initial reports indicated that seven children and two women were killed in the Sunday’s airstrike carried out by the Saudi-led aggression coalition fighter jets on Hajjah province.
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Saudi Crown Prince suspect in Khashoggi murder case: UN official
July 12, 2020 - 9:32 AMA UN official has said that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was a prime suspect in the case of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018.
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OIC urges UN Security Council to stop Israel annexation plan
July 8, 2020 - 9:28 AMThe Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) writes to the members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), urging the body to come in the way of a plan announced by Israel for annexation of significant portions of the occupied West Bank.
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UN experts calls US drone attack on General Soleimani ‘unlawful’ killing
July 7, 2020 - 8:58 AMA senior UN human rights investigator says the United States’ assassination of top Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad was an “unlawful” killing in violation of the international law.
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World condemns Israel’s annexation plan
July 4, 2020 - 10:29 AMJuly 1 came and went in occupied Palestine, and despite it long being presented as the day of annexation of the West Bank, nothing happened.
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UN Secretary General urges world countries to conduct economic cooperation with Iran
July 1, 2020 - 7:44 AMThe United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in his latest report on function of the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 encouraged all countries to have economic collaboration with Iran.
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