The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has appealed for assistance for millions of people displaced by the devastating floods in Pakistan. In statement released on Wednesday, OIC called on member states, charity organizations, and financial institutions to help Islamabad out of what he described as a “disaster of gigantic proportions which requires colossal resources [...]

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called for the formation of an international investigation committee to probe Israel’s deadly attack on Gaza-bound aid ships. “I have invited our OIC Ambassadorial Groups in both New York and Geneva to act in concert in favor of the adoption of an international stand condemning this odious [...]

Iranians have staged a massive demonstration to condemn Israel’s deadly attack on a Gaza aid convoy and the continued blockade of the Palestinian enclave. Millions of protestors took to streets following the weekly Friday prayers in protest to Monday’s lethal attack by Israel’s naval commandos on the Freedom Flotilla while the six-ship fleet was in [...]

Iran’s ambassador to the UN has called for an “all-out boycott” of Israel, saying that a recent attack on ships carrying aid to Gaza showed Tel Aviv’s brutality. Mohammad Khazaei made the comments at an emergency meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in New York on Thursday, IRNA reported. The meeting was [...]

The Organization of the Islamic Conference voices its condemnation of Israel’s bloody takeover of a humanitarian aid convoy heading for the besieged Gaza Strip. The Islamic body on Monday condemned the use of violence by Israeli forces against hundreds of international activists onboard the six-ship flotilla heading to the Palestinian coastal sliver. It further called [...]

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the country is ready to provide substantial evidence of direct US backing and involvement in Pakistani terrorism. Iranian investigations following the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the rindleader of the Jundallah terrorist grouping, have uncovered evidence of direct US support for terrorism in the region. Iran is prepared to share [...]

Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani is in Turkey to attend an inter-parliamentary conference on Israel’s plan to expand illegal settlements. The three-day emergency meeting organized by the Organization of the Islamic Conference comes as Israel continues defying international calls to stop its settlement expansion projects on annexed Palestinian lands. “The forced migration of Palestinians [...]

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani will visit Turkey to attend a meeting of the executive committee of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Larijani will take part in the OIC meeting on May 10 and will exchange views with his counterparts on key issues of the Islamic world. Ahead of his departure for Istanbul [...]

Efforts should be made to make the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on the last day of the Tehran nuclear disarmament conference. “We really believe that a Middle East without nuclear weapons can bring about stability and peace,” Ramin Mehmanparast said in an exclusive interview with Press TV [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) could play a leading role in global nuclear disarmament. President Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a meeting with OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu on the sidelines of the Tehran nuclear disarmament conference. The two-day international conference aims to pave the way for the [...]

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People said Tuesday the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) should focus on its primary objective of defending the Palestinians as a Zionist plot to drive them out of their homes unravels. In a meeting with government officials and prominent scientific and political figures, Imam Seyyed Ali [...]

A senior Iranian cleric has called on the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to adopt a “firm stance” on the reopening of a Jewish synagogue near the Al-Aqsa Mosque. On March 15, Israel reopened the Hurva Synagogue close to the highly revered al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of East Jerusalem (al-Quds). Al-Aqsa is [...]

An international conference organized by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has raised $850 million to help people in Sudan’s Darfur. The Sunday one-day conference co-chaired by Egypt and Turkey in Cairo planned to raise $2 billion to help the war-ravaged Darfur region. “Stability and development in Darfur is the only guarantee that will [...]

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) urges an all-out international effort aimed at ending the Israeli aggression after an Israeli raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque. On Saturday, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu called for “an international intervention effective at every level to end Israeli aggressions and make Israel respect international law,” AFP reported. The [...]

Organization of the Islamic Conference Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has strongly condemned the Israeli troops’ assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and warned of dangerous consequences. Ihsanoglu said the illegal entry of Israeli police into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday violated international law protecting houses of worship. He associated the move with Tel Aviv’s decision [...]

The Gaza Energy Authority says the Gaza Strip’s only power plant will stop functioning once again if fuel is not received immediately. In a statement issued on Saturday afternoon, the Energy Authority said that one generator had already been shut down and the remaining amount of fuel was only sufficient to continue the plant’s electricity [...]

One of the two generators of Gaza’s only power plant has been shut down due to a shortage of fuel, cutting power to around 50 percent of the residents of the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Energy Authority announced on Saturday that the remaining amount of fuel is enough to operate the other generator until Sunday [...]

The Organization of the Islamic Conference has strongly condemned the profanation of a mosque by Israel extremists in the West Bank. “The profanation of the mosque and the torching of Koran copies found in it, and the spraying of racist graffiti slogans on the mosque’s walls against Islam and Muslims represent a blatant aggression against [...]

The Non-aligned Movement (NAM) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have condemned a UN anti-Iran resolution on human rights violation. In separate statements, NAM and OIC representatives expressed strong disapproval of a UN non-binding resolution which accuses Iran of human rights violation. They called the resolution ‘a politically-motivated move, which undermined human rights [...]

Iran has strongly denounced a resolution which accuses the country of violating human rights, calling it a ‘dark stain’ on UN credibility. Members of the United Nations human rights committee Friday adopted a non-binding resolution which criticizes Iran for alleged human rights violations. The resolution adopted with only 74 votes in favor, 48 against and [...]