Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on Islamic governments to exert political and economic pressure on Myanmar’s government to make it stop a deadly crackdown on minority Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country. Speaking on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei strongly criticized the silence and inaction of international bodies and self-proclaimed […]

A senior Iranian official has slammed the ongoing brutal crackdown on the Rohingya in Myanmar, saying the Muslim community is suffering from organized crime at the hands of the Israeli regime. “The Zionist regime’s plot to cleanse its cruel and child-killing image and promote the culture of cruelty and oppression against children, the elderly and innocent people in coordination with […]

TEHRAN  – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the heads of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) plan to hold a separate meeting in Kazakhstan about the ongoing “human tragedy” in Myanmar. Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Saturday before his departure for the Kazakh capital of Astana, Rouhani said on the […]

In a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres, Iranian foreign minister called for immediate action by the international communities against organized violence against Muslims in Myanmar. Mohammad Javad Zarif, in his letter to UN Secretary-Genera António Guterresl on Friday, said the Islamic Republic of Iran stands ready and willing to support […]

Israel continues to sell weapons to Myanmar’s military junta despite the ongoing persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the state of Rakhine. The arms sold to the junta reportedly include over 100 tanks and boats as well as other sorts of weapon. Israeli arms companies such as TAR Ideal Concepts have also been involved in training Myanmar’s special forces, who are […]

Myanmar has reportedly been planting landmines across an area of its border with Bangladesh as thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a bloody crackdown to take refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. Two government sources in Bangladesh told Reuters on Wednesday that Myanmarese forces had been “putting the landmines in their territory along the barbed-wire fence,” between […]

A Myanmarese rights group has warned against the rising government-backed persecution of all Muslims across the country, and not just those in Rohingya-majority Rakhine State, which has been under a bloody army clampdown for more than a week. The independent Burma Human Rights Network said in a Tuesday report that the persisting repression of Muslims […]

TEHRAN – A special aide to Iran’s parliament speaker expressed deep concern over systematic violence against Muslims in Myanmar and denounced the recent wave of deadly crackdown on Rohingya Muslims as a new human tragedy in the Southeast Asian country. “Genocide of Muslim minority in Myanmar is a humanitarian catastrophe, which requires urgent humanitarian aid […]

TEHRAN  – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Myanmar of “genocide” against the Rohingya Muslim minority, who have fled in the tens of thousands across the border into Bangladesh to escape ethnic violence. “There is a genocide there,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul during the Islamic Eid al-Adha feast, which commemorates Abraham’s […]