TEHRAN  – Myanmar’s national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, facing outrage over ethnic violence that has forced about 370,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh, will not attend the upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York, a party spokesman said on Wednesday. The crisis over the security forces’ fierce response to a series of […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Bahram Ghasemi said that the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly is a good chance for discussing the issue of Myanmar. “Regarding the responsibility the Islamic Republic of Iran bears about the Muslims of the world, we will concentrate the whole of our efforts for restoring the rights of this […]

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 […]

Journalists who have toured villages in a crisis-stricken state in Myanmar have reported new fires burning in a village that has been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, casting further doubt on government claims that the Muslims are burning down their own homes. About two dozen journalists monitoring the developments in northern Rakhine State on a government-controlled […]

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 […]

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the ongoing killing in Myanmar amid the indifference of human rights groups has all the signs of an organized plot against Muslims.     “The terrible crimes of extremist Buddhist groups and the Myanmar army against Rohingya Muslims … suggest an organized anti-Islamic plot that, if not stopped, will result in another major genocide […]

Speaking to MNA about Indonesia’s measures to help resolve the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, Ambassador Ocatvino Alimudin believes Myanmar government would go on to consider some practical measures to resolve the issue and its stance is gearing toward the international community’s wishes. The grievous situation of 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of a […]

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is set to form a contact group to help put an end to the ongoing atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Iran’s ambassador to the UN says. “Over the past days, I have made several contacts with the envoys of Muslim countries, and a group named ‘the contact group […]

 Former IRGC General Mohsen Rezaei has called on all Muslim countries to form a unified force in defense of Rohingya Muslims who are being persecuted violently in Myanmar. Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei reacted to the mass killings and displacement of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar forces, saying “the brutal catastrophe in Myanmar is a stain of […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Bahram Ghasemi voiced concern over the deteriorating situation of Muslims in Myanmar and urged the Islamic world to act for preserving the rights of the Muslims. “Iran’s diplomatic body has always been concerned about the situation of Muslims across the world,” asserted Bahram Ghasemi, the Spokesperson of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign […]