The UN has announced that it is on “full alert” for a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims as reports show a sharp spike of them fleeing Myanmar. “We’re back in a situation of full alert as far as influxes are concerned. It is a big increase to see 11,000,” said the spokesman for the UN High […]

TEHRAN – The parliamentary representatives of OIC member states convened in Tehran on Saturday to hold the 38th meeting of the PUIC Executive Committee. Parliamentary representatives of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Benin, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mozambique, Pakistan, Turkey, Senegal, Mali, and Iraq joined the Iranian representatives to hold the 38th meeting of the PUIC (Parliamentary Union of the […]

The Israeli regime will not put an end to its sale of ammunition to Myanmar in light of incontrovertible evidence and United Nations data that the Southeast Asian nation’s military has perpetrated various forms of atrocities, including systematic rape and expulsions, against Rohingya Muslims. English-language Haaretz daily newspaper reported that a group of human rights activists had […]

Seven countries have called on the UN Security Council to convene a meeting to discuss the ongoing atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. According to a request seen by AFP on Friday, France, Britain, the US, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Senegal and Sweden asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to brief the Security Council on Myanmar’s military […]

President Rouhani addressed the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on Myanmar saying, Myanmar government should understand that forcing people out of their homeland and displacing them in other countries will not resolve the deep-rooted crisis and Iran is ready to provide assistance to the oppressed Rohingya Muslims. “Should the extensive violation of the basic […]

TEHRAN – Hundreds of students yesterday rallied in front of the UN office in Tehran to protest at the Myanmar government genocide against Rohingya Muslims. According to the public relations of the Union of the Islamic Associations of the Pupils, several members of the union as well as other groups of students staged a protest […]

TEHRAN  – A rights group has called for targeted sanctions and an arms embargo against the Myanmar military in response to an offensive that has sent 410,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh to escape what the United Nations has branded ethnic cleansing. The latest spasm of violence in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State began on Aug. […]

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 […]

TEHRAN – An Iranian delegation, headed by FM Rahmipour, made a visit to refugee camp of Rohingya Muslims in border areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar. Led by Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister for Asia and Oceania Affairs Ebrahim Rahimpour, the Iranian delegation visited Rohingya refugee camp in border areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar and met with […]

TEHRAN – Mr. Sheikholeslam, advisor to Iranian FM Zarif, believes that the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar is an international plot to press the Islamic world. “Wherever Muslims are in the minority, the efforts are focused to deprive them of their rights,” asserted Hossein Sheikholeslam, Adviser to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Wednesday. […]