Ceremonies for the 37th commemoration of Islamic Revolution start in Imam Khomeini (RA) mausoleum in Tehran. (photo)

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called on Ankara to investigate reports that a number of unarmed people trying to attend to the injured victims of clashes in Turkey’s southeast in late January were themselves shot at.

The United States will not get engaged in “indiscriminate bombing” in its alleged war against Daesh Takfiris in Iraq and Syria, claims the US military commander in charge of the war, further accusing the Russian forces of doing so.

The United States has urged Russia to take more serious action to help enable what it calls humanitarian access in Syria, an American official says.

Saudi Arabia has carried out several rounds of airstrikes on a civilian airport west of Yemen as it seeks to cut off the impoverished nation from the outside world.

The Russian Defense Ministry has released video footage which it says is “irrefutable proof” that Turkish troops shell Syria with heavy artillery.

“Muslims are cognizant of the importance of unity and rapprochement among Islamic denominations more than any other time,” said the President of Dar Al-Eftai in Europe.

Iran’s Ministry of Agriculture bans state imports of wheat in the coming Persian year which begins on March 20, ordering officials to stop registering new purchase orders.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Iran and Saudi Arabia should compromise and interact responsibly vis-à-vis the tensions in the Middle East.

Iran’s mining sector has now more than $10 billion of investment pledges by the Europeans and Chinese under its belt, Deputy Mine, Industry and Trade Minister Mehdi Karbasian says.

David Burnett, one of the few Western journalists who depicted Iran’s revolution during his 44-day stay in Tehran in 1979, described the late founder of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini as an “incredibly important character in both political and religious world”.

A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic supports consensus among all Lebanese political groups in the upcoming presidential election in the Arab country.

Speaking to Indian and Pakistani students, Ayatollah Nouri-Hamadani has explained that the arrogance powers have mobilized all of their resources to attack Muslims and called upon the Islamic ummah to be vigilant.

Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said the country’s influence has reached such great magnitude that the world’s big powers feel it necessary to take the Islamic Republic into consideration when dealing with global issues.

A senior Iranian official says Tehran seeks to strengthen relations with Russia as the two countries share a common stance on the Syrian crisis.