Pars Today
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has pardoned or commuted the sentences of a large group of Iranian prisoners, marking two important Islamic festivities.
Bahrain’s most prominent religious scholar has dismissed the upcoming parliamentary elections as “a new disaster and calamity” for the Persian Gulf nation, stating that the polls will only reinforce the Aal-e Khalifah dynasty’s reactionary and oppressive measures and jeopardize the interests of the Bahraini people.
In yet another indication of entrenched hostilities against Shia Muslims in Bahrain, the Aal-e Khalifah regime has banned the pilgrimage to the holy cities in Iraq and Syria.
The imprisoned leader of Azerbaijan’s Movement for Muslim Unity (MMU) has reportedly gone on an open-ended hunger strike in protest at blasphemous remarks by members of the country’s Office for Combating Organized Crime (BMCMI).
Members of the Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria have visited Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky on the occasion of the passing away anniversary of the Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (may his soul rest in peace).
International human rights organizations have called upon Saudi authorities to stop the imminent execution of two Bahraini men accused of trumped-up terrorism-related crimes, as the kingdom keeps using death penalty to silence rights activists and political opponents.
At least nine people have been martyred and more than a dozen injured in two separate bomb explosions that rocked the northern city of Mazar Sharif in Afghanistan, just days after a series of bombings in the war-torn country.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has reacted to the latest bomb attack in the neighboring Afghanistan, saying frequent bomb attacks and explosions targeting civilians in various cities of the war-ravaged country are a cause of great concern.
A bombing at a mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif has martyred at least 31 worshipers and injured more than 80, in the second major attack on the Shia Muslim Hazara community in Afghanistan in a week.
Iran has censured powerful explosions at a boys’ high school in a Shia Muslim-dominated neighborhood of the Afghan capital, Kabul, urging the country’s officials to identify and punish the perpetrators behind the terrorist crime.