Iranian President Urges Int’l Pressure on Myanmar to Stop Killing of Muslims
TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani denounced the situation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as “shocking” and renewed his call for international pressures on the government of the Southeast Asian country to stop “the genocide”. “Muslims in Myanmar are facing dreadful conditions and 400,000 innocent people have been displaced,” President Rouhani said in a meeting […]
Iran, Pakistan call for facilities to help Rohingya Muslims
TEHRAN – Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri in a phone conversation with Pakistan’s Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa stressed the need to apply all available facilities to help Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as soon as possible. The two sides talked about areas of cooperation between the armed forces […]
Iranian Aid Handed Out to Myanmar Muslims
TEHRAN – The first consignment of the humanitarian aid Iran has dispatched for the Muslim people of Myanmar was distributed among the displaced refugees in Bangladesh. Weighing 40 tons, it was distributed among Rohingya Muslims in three refugee camps southwest of Bangladesh after being airlifted to Shah Amanat airport in the port city of Chittagong. […]
Iranian MP Calls on Muslim States to Boycott Myanmar Gov’t
TEHRAN – An Iranian lawmaker stressed the need for practical ways to force the government of Myanmar to stop oppressing the Muslim minorities, proposing that the Middle East nations should halt exporting energy to Myanmar as a punishment. In an interview with Tasnim on Monday, member of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, […]
Muslims Unity Key to Permanent Global Peace
TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani underlined the need for unity and cooperation among Muslim countries as the key to rid the world of violence and reach permanent peace. Rouhani made the remarks in an address to the first Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit on science and technology in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on Sunday. […]