An ex-Saudi intelligence chief’s anti-Iran comments in a gathering of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Paris leaves no doubt about their close links, former Iranian deputy foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian said.

The Iranian foreign minister has called for a stronger unity among various Iraqi groups as the key to defeat the Takfiri terror groups wreaking havoc in the Arab state and elsewhere in the region.

Tehran will not give up its advisory support for Iraq and Syria until the full elimination of terror threats gripping the region, a senior Iranian official says.

Families of the four Iranian diplomats kidnapped in Lebanon over three decades ago have called on Beirut to fulfill its responsibility and help determine the fate of their loved ones.

Secretary of the Council for Development of Quranic Culture described the International Quran Competition for Muslim Students as a unique event in the Muslim world.

Ramadi is a city in central Iraq, about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad and 50 kilometers west of Fallujah.

The Iranian parliament plans to dispatch a fact-finding committee to the southwestern port city of Mahshahr over a huge blaze at a petrochemical refinery complex in the city, the spokesman of the parliament’s Energy Commission said.

A senior Iranian lawmaker has warned that Western countries are hatching a “new plot” against Iran over its missile program, saying, however, that the Islamic Republic will wisely respond to such moves.

Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says Iranian naval forces will stage large-scale drills to boost and put on display the country’s military prowess.

Iran’s top nuclear official has stressed the Islamic Republic’s strong commitment to the nuclear agreement struck between Iran and six world countries in July 2015, warning the United States about the negative repercussions of violating the deal.

“We all should try to eradicate modern slavery and redouble our efforts. Slavery has jeopardized the lives of millions of people,” Ayatollah Ramezani-Gilani underlined.

“Islam should not be restricted only in words but it needs to be manifested also in the acts and behavior of a Muslim”, said the Quran commentator.

The representative of Khuzestan in the Assembly of Experts said “If someone considers the way the imperialistic US deals with Islam and Iran and the entire world, they will understand that the US is not a country of negotiations and concessions.”

Hujjat al-Islam al-Daqqaq has spoken about the Bahraini Al Khalifah regime’s policy of repression against Shi’a scholars and the extention of opposition cleric Shaykh Ali Salman’s prison sentence.