Iran recalls American-backed 1953 coup

Reversing earlier U.S. policy, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the CIA to instigate a coup d'état in Tehran that led to the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his government on this day in 1953.

Nigeria’s Sheikh Zakzaky, wife arrive in India for treatment

Nigeria’s Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky and his wife have arrived in India to receive medical care for the injuries they sustained in a brutal raid by Nigerian forces in 2015, when the couple was arrested to spend the next four years in detention.

Leader calls for resistance against Saudi-UAE bid to split Yemen

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei warns that the Saudi regime and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — which have been leading a military campaign against Yemen — are after partitioning the fellow Arab country, calling for strong resistance in the face of the plot.

Bans on Zarif sign of absolute US defeat

Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), slams the US for imposing sanctions on Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, saying the move is indicative of Washington’s defeat in its anti-Iran agenda.

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Imam Khomeini stressed need for presence of heart durig prayers

Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic advised the faithful people to pay special attention towards God, the Almighty while saying their prayers.

The ‘forgotten’ US shootdown of Iranian airliner Flight 655­

Today marks twenty-nine years since the shootdown by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air flight 655, which killed all of the plane’s 290 civilian passengers. This shootdown of a civilian airliner by a US naval ship occurred on July 3, 1988, toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War.

FM Zarif says Iran to put up spirited resistance in face of US pressures

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic will continue to put up spirited resistance in the face of the United States’ “maximum pressure” campaign, just as it persevered during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.