It is the duty of the nations, with the arrival of Quds Day and the anniversary of the martyrdom of that great man in the history of mankind (Imam `Ali [pbuh]), in their gatherings and marches to earnestly demand that their governments rise up against America and Israel using their military might and their oil [...]

The Palestinian Hamas movement has beefed up its military prowess, unveiling reports of new missiles, capable of hitting targets deeper into Israel. The Islamic movement said on Wednesday that it had completed the construction of a new missile with the range of 80 kilometers, Quds news agency reported. The missile has a range of more [...]

An Iranian lawmaker has censured direct talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel in Washington, saying the US-led plan will fail. “As previous plans by the US and Zionist regime against the Palestinian people achieved no result, this plan will also bear no fruit,” Gholamali Haddad-Adel said on Wednesday. He added that International Quds [...]

Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have staged a sit-in to protest the resumption of direct talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel. On August 20, the PA agreed to US calls to sit at the negotiating table with Israel at the summit on September 2 in Washington, despite vehement [...]

Iran’s Association for liberation of the holy al-Quds (Jerusalem) slams Western and US support for Israel, insisting that global resolve to annihilate the Israeli regime has strengthened. “The US and European Union, as staunch allies of the occupying Zionist regime (Israel), and certain Arab and Muslim governments are openly and covertly supporting the illegitimate Israeli [...]

An Iranian lawmaker has criticized acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to attend US-brokered peace talks with Israel in Washington. “Abu Mazen’s presence at the Americans’ summit will only weaken the status of Palestinians. He should know that the US-Israeli plans will turn him into a puppet,” Fars news agency quoted Head of the [...]

Israel has been created by colonial powers with the aim of halting the growth of Middle Eastern countries, chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council says. In a statement published on Tuesday, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani praised the Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, for his initiative in establishing the International Quds Day to [...]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has cautioned Israel’s allies not to strengthen anti-Tel Aviv sentiments through their unwavering support for Israel. “Countries backing this regime must know that continuing their support would only spread hatred for the Israeli regime in the minds (of the masses),” IRNA quoted Mehmanparast as saying during his weekly news [...]

US-brokered peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel will be inconclusive due to their failure to address the issue of the Palestinian nation, an Iranian lawmaker says. “These negotiations will be definitely doomed to failure because the issue of the Palestinian nation is disregarded,” IRNA quoted member of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission [...]

Israel has decided to deprive six ailing Palestinian prisoners of direly-needed medical care and place them under strict confinement. The Israeli prison service has chosen to move those affected from Israel’s Ramleh Prison Hospital to central prisons. The families have gathered in protest to the potential move and human rights organizations have warned that transferring [...]

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has deplored as “fake prestige” US-brokered plans for peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. “The US raises the issue of peace talks to create a mirage for the Palestinian people and deceive regional nations,” said Larijani in a Sunday meeting in Tehran with Khalil Hamdan, a senior official [...]

The Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa says he has little hope that the forthcoming direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be successful. “We are hoping that talks will succeed but we are all very pessimistic about the viability of the peace process because of the past experience,” Moussa told [...]

Jordan has been censured for accepting an invitation to participate in the upcoming direct peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. “Jordan’s participation in the meeting implies giving up the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes,” Jordan’s Trade Unions Council said in a statement on Saturday. “The government bears complete responsibility [...]

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) has staged a rally to protest the resumption of direct talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. Officials and supporters of the leftist Palestinian faction held a demonstration in Gaza City on Saturday to condemn the upcoming direct negotiations with Israel “in compliance with Israel and [...]

Israel is reportedly preparing to strike arms depots and weapons manufacturing plants in Syria, claiming they belong to the Islamic resistance movement Hezbollah, a report says. Tel Aviv has escalated its military presence in the occupied Golan Heights and the northern part of the Shebaa Farms, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz said, citing a report in [...]

The Iranian parliament speaker says Israel is on the decline today, adding a new era has emerged where all conflicts are to the detriment of Israel. “Israeli soldiers are as scared of death as struggling popular forces welcome it,” the IRIB quoted Ali Larijani as saying at a conference on unity among students in the [...]

Israel has imposed tough restrictions on entry to al-Quds (Jerusalem), preventing many Palestinians from attending Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque. Hundreds of Israeli troops were deployed and further checkpoints were installed in and around al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday to restrict the entry of Palestinian worshipers for the third Friday prayers of holy month of [...]

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says Washington’s main obsession is providing security for Israel rather than establishing peace in the Middle East. “The process of peace talks shows that the fate of Palestine has not been the obsession for the West and they have only been seeking to provide security for Israel sometimes through wars [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taunted the Israeli regime as “too weak to attack Iran,” promising a crushing response against any aggression. “Israel is too weak to stage a military strike against Iran, but if it attacks, it will receive a devastating response, which will make it regret its aggression,” said President Ahmadinejad in a [...]

Member of Hamas’s political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq condemned the international quartet’s statement, which invited the Palestinians to engage in peace talks with Israel in Washington, as a fig leaf covering the political impotence of Fatah’s authority. In a press release on Saturday, Resheq underlined that the quartet’s statement is politically useless for it did not [...]