TEHRAN (defapress) – Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi called on the country’s Foreign Ministry to adopt whatever diplomatic approaches it can to force the government of Myanmar to stop the persecution of Muslim people in the Buddhist-majority country.
News ID: 66158 Publish Date : 2017/10/05
TEHRAN (defapress) - The UN committees for women's and children's rights called on Myanmar's authorities on Wednesday to immediately stop violence in northern Rakhine state, which hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled in the past six weeks.
News ID: 66139 Publish Date : 2017/10/04
TEHRAN (defapress) - Bangladesh opens talks with neighboring Myanmar on Monday with the aim of securing the return home of more than half a million Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar, most of whom have arrived since late August.
News ID: 66106 Publish Date : 2017/10/02
TEHRAN (defapress) - 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.
News ID: 65967 Publish Date : 2017/09/18
TEHRAN (defapress) - Hundreds gathered near the United Nations headquarters in New York City to protest the ongoing violence targeting the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar.
News ID: 65953 Publish Date : 2017/09/16
TEHRAN (defapress) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei decried the muted response to the ongoing violence against Muslims in Myanmar, urging the Islamic governments to take practical measures to force the “merciless” Myanmarese government to stop the persecution of Muslims.
News ID: 65913 Publish Date : 2017/09/12
TEHRAN (defapress) – Parliament's General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said time was ripe for implementing political initiatives inside Syria.
News ID: 65904 Publish Date : 2017/09/12
TEHRAN(defapress)– Immediate halt to violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and addressing the problem of the refugees in the country should become a collective goal followed by all Islamic nations, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said.
News ID: 65887 Publish Date : 2017/09/10
TEHRAN (defapress) – 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.
News ID: 65870 Publish Date : 2017/09/08
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani condemned the massacre and mass expulsion of Muslims in Myanmar, calling on the United Nations to dispatch a fact-finding mission to the Buddhist-majority country to address the Muslim woes and deliver humanitarian assistance.
News ID: 65861 Publish Date : 2017/09/07
TEHRAN(defapress)- Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres in a statement warned against the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Rakhine, a Muslim residential area in Myanmar.
News ID: 65809 Publish Date : 2017/09/02
TEHRAN (defapress) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday expressed deep concern over the reports of civilians being killed during security operations in Myanmar's Rakhine State.
News ID: 65759 Publish Date : 2017/08/29
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry expressed grave concern about the continuation of discrimination and violence against Muslims in Myanmar that has resulted in the killing and forced displacement of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 65763 Publish Date : 2017/08/29
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee Myanmar over the past ten days amid a renewed crackdown on the minority group in the Southeast Asian country, an NGO says.
News ID: 60821 Publish Date : 2014/10/25