Protesters in Bahrain have staged fresh anti-regime rallies, demanding the release of senior opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and other political prisoners.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Saudi Arabia’s chargé d’affaires in Tehran to protest against a rocket attack near the Iranian embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has criticized the Saudi aggression against Yemen as senseless, urging dialog among different Yemeni groups to resolve the Arab country’s crisis.
A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official has described the Saudi crimes in Yemen as worse than those committed by Israel during its 2014 war on the Gaza Strip, saying the Riyadh regime even refuses to allow humanitarian aid delivery to the people.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed regret over some countries' attempts to depict the Yemeni crisis as a religious conflict, saying Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen has nothing to do with religion.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani in a meeting with Afghanistan’s National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar in Tehran on Monday lashed out at certain countries for making an instrumental use of the terrorist groups to justify their military and political meddling in other countries.
President Hassan Rouhani departed here Tuesday for Jakarta to attend the summit of the Asian African Conference to be held in the Indonesian capital on April 22-24.
Austrian Foreign Ministry said that P5+1 group of international mediators and Iran will hold anew round of talks in Vienna on April 24, following a series of expert meetings.
Iran has rejected a call by US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz for unlimited access of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to the Islamic Republic’s military sites.
Along with many other political and religious figures in Lebanon, Shi’ite scholar Ayatollah Nablusi has slammed remarks made by Lebanon’s Interior Minister over Iran’s role in Lebanon, accusing him of "attempting to cover up the defeat of the House of Saud."
Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi criticized the international silence towards Saudi Arabia’s crimes in Yemen, saying that Saudi petrodollars have been given to international organizations, UN agencies, media companies and governments to bribe them into remaining silent over their murderous rampages and great crimes.
In an attempt to combat extremist ideologies and clarify and explain the facts about “true Islam”, Egypt’s Grand Mufti and the head of Dar al-Ifta traveled to Europe to meet European government officials there.