(JNN12 dec 2011) Grand source of emulation Ayatollah Sistani rejected arequest by Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Arabi to meet with him. Grand source of emulation Ayatollah Sistani rejected a request by Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Arabi to meet with him. Al-Arabi, who is in Iraq on a visit, had asked to meet with the Shia [Continue]
( JNN08′dec 2011) Hundreds of Iraqis have taken part in a protest rally to demand the expulsion of members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) from their country. The protesters rallied outside the notorious Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province on Friday where the MKO has been based since the early 1980s, urging the Iraqi [Continue]
Separate bomb attacks have killed at least 33 Shia mourners and wounded101 others across Iraq, police sources say. (JNN06′dec 2011) “A car bomb was parked near a Shia pilgrims’ procession inside the Nile area, and it killed 16 people, mostly women and children, and wounded 45 others,” a police source told Reuters on [Continue]
Iraq’s Prime Minister says the recent bomb attack near the country’sparliament in Baghdad was a failed assassination attempt against him. “The preliminary intelligence information says that the car was due to enter parliament and stay there and not to explode. It was supposed to explode on the day I entered parliament,” AP quoted [Continue]
Shia Muslims around the world are preparing to start processions markingthe martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussain (PBUH) and 72 of his companions. ( JNN 30′nov 2011 )Shia Muslims around the world are preparing to start processions marking the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussain (PBUH) and 72 of his companions. The mourners have begun [Continue]
Iraq executed a Tunisian man convicted of the 2006 bombing of a reveredshrine of 10th and 11th Shia Imams that set off the worst of the country’s sectarian violence, a senior Iraqi official said Thursday. (JNN19nov2011) – Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim said that Yusri Fakhir, who was convicted early this year of the bombing on [Continue]
JNN:(30-10-11) TEHRAN – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that the united resistance put up by the Iraqi nation against U.S. pressure, which compelled the country to withdraw its forces from Iraq, is a golden page in the history of Iraq. “The united resistance of the Iraqi people of all tribes [Continue]
JNN(30-10-11): With great sadness and sorrow, the holy city of Karbala witnessed a condition of grief in the anniversary of the martyrdom of the ninth Imam, Mohammed Al-Jawad AS. A procession started its ceremony Friday, 29 Thul Qida 1432 AH, corresponding to Oct. 28, 2011 AD. The procession includes officials and employees of the tow holy shrines [Continue]
(JNN10oct 2011) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has reiterated his country’s opposition to granting immunity to any US troops remaining in Iraq beyond an agreed year-end deadline. “We are heading toward securing (US) trainers and experts for the American weapons we purchased, but without immunity,” Maliki told Reuters during [Continue]
JNN 30 Aug 2011 : Today it was annonced that the strong evidence was provided of the Moon sighting from different parts of the country ,so after technical verification and Religious authentication by religious scholars of the area. It was announced from the Central Moon sighting commitee , which consist of all the member of [Continue]
Head of Al-Mabarat Charity in Lebanon has said that Arabs are seeking freedom and are against any kind of injustice. Sayed Ali Fadlallah said that “the Arab people are after gaining freedom that sat on their chests through the systems that protected the backwardness and ignorance, and captivated them by policies that squandered wealth and [Continue]
JNN 25Aug 2011 WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday he thinks progress has been made in talks with Baghdad on maintaining some U.S. military presence in Iraq after the end-of-year deadline for withdrawing American forces. Panetta told a group of reporters from defense-related publications that in his opinion the Iraqis had [Continue]
Sadr made the remarks in a meeting with visiting Afghanistan Deputy Parliament Rafiullah Gul Afghan in Tehran. The two sides called for enhanced economic cooperation and activation of Iran-Afghanistan parliamentary friendship group. Sadr said that Iran and Afghanistan enjoy cultural affinities and have common language and that the ethnic groups [Continue]
Twenty-five people have been killed and 30 injured when two car bombs exploded outside the residence of a local governor in central Iraq. “Two car bombs exploded almost simultaneously near the governor’s home in Diwaniya, killing 25 people and wounding more than 30,” said an Iraqi defense ministry official, quoted in an AFP report on [Continue]
JNN 21 June 2011 : Osama al-Nujaifi, the Iraqi parliament speaker, has told Al Jazeera that the amount of Iraqi money unaccounted for by the U.S. is $18.7 billion — three times more than the reported $6.6 billion. Just before departing for a visit to the U.S., al-Nujaifi said that he has received a report [Continue]
Former U.S. soldiers who took part in the Iraq war recount stories of how they killed innocent people and planted weapons on them. The soldiers talk about what they say is the widespread practice of using “drop weapons” to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. Huffingtonpost.com A “drop weapon” is a [Continue]
JNN 15 June 2011 : A prominent anti-war group has slammed the US-led NATO mission in Libya, saying that the military campaign only aims to plunder the North African state’s oil reserves. Brian Becker of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition wrote on Monday that Libya is today resisting a new colonialism as well as forces loyal to Libya’s [Continue]
The Iranian Parliament (Majlis) has imposed sanctions on 26 US officials,including former defense and intelligence chiefs, for their involvement in the killing of civilians and the torture of suspects in US-run prisons. MP Kazem Jalali, the spokesman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on Tuesday that the committee [Continue]
A spokesman for the Iraqi ministry of electricity said on Sunday that under the terms and conditions of the memorandum of understanding, Iraq will buy the Iranian natural gas on a five-year deal, Reuters reported. Mosaab Serri noted that Iran will install a pipeline through Iraq to supply the country with the needed natural gas to [Continue]
