Iran’s Minister Details Scale of Damage in Recent RiotsIranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli has detailed the scale of damage inflicted on public and private property during violent riots that recently hit several cities.
Houthis Preparing for Planned Israeli Attack on YemenThere are strong indications that Israel is planning to launch airstrikes against Yemen under the pretext of preventing an Iranian military presence from taking hold, much as it did in Syria and Iraq.
The 14th round of Astana Talks on Syria concluded on Wednesday guarantor states Russia, Turkey, and Iran expressing concerns over the increased presence of terrorist groups in Syria’s Idlib province.
Iran Denounces ’Destructive’ Persian Gulf Summit’s StatementIran criticized a hostile statement made by Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, calling on them to abandon their “destructive” approach towards the Islamic Republic and the entire region.
Iran Foreign Ministry Warns Citizens Not to Travel to USIran’s Foreign Ministry warned Iranian nationals, particularly scientists, about visiting the United States, citing arbitrary and lengthy detention in inhuman conditions in the US.
UN ‘Unable’ to Confirm Accusations Iran Struck Saudi Aramco: GuterresThe United Nations is “unable to independently corroborate” the US and Saudi claims that Iran was behind attacks on the kingdom’s Aramco oil facilities in September, the world body’s Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Suu Kyi in World Court as Myanmar Faces Genocide CaseMyanmar’s de facto ruler Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Tuesday for a highly anticipated genocide case against her regime.
Qatari Emir Rejects Saudi Invitation to Join Persian Gulf Summit in RiyadhQatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has turned down an invitation by Saudi Arabia to attend the annual meeting of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh, dampening hopes of reconciliation between the Arab neighbors.
Astana-14 Talks on Syria Kicks OffThe first day of the 14th round of Astana talks on Syria has started in the Kazakh capital with Iranian and Russian delegations holding bilateral negotiations at its sidelines.
Senior Israeli Rabbi Visits Bahrain Amid Normalization BidsShlomo Amar, senior Israeli rabbi, has visited Bahrain under the guise of participation in a religious event and met with the West-backed kingdom’s monarch, as Tel Aviv and its Arab allies accelerate attempts to normalize ties following years of clandestine contacts.
Iran ’Fully Ready’ for Comprehensive Prisoner Swap with US: FMIran’s Foreign Minister said on Monday Tehran was ready to exchange more prisoners with Washington. Mohammad Javad Zarif’s remarks came after Americans freed Iranian stem cell scientist Masoud Soleimani after over one year of imprisonment in the US.
Europe Key Player in Creating Chaos in Syria: President AssadSyrian President Bashar al-Assad criticized European countries as the key players in creating chaos in his country, saying the current refugee crisis in European countries is a consequence of their support for terrorism in the Arab country.
Afghan Locals Complain of Diseases Caused by US ‘Mother of All Bombs’Afghan People living in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, where the US dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb three years ago, are now complaining that America’s “mother of all bombs” have brought them “many diseases” and affected crop yield in agricultural lands.
25 Percent of Israelis Living in Poverty: ReportMore than one-quarter of Israelis are living in poverty, an Israeli non-profit organization reported, adding that the number of poor children exceeds one million.
Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
Wahhabism in Pakistan that has so far proven detrimental to the Indian national security, mainly in Kashmir, a region under India-Pakistan dispute. It can be said that the Wahhabism and terrorism have turned into a play with fire for the Saudis and sometimes have damaged the interests of their own c ...
Wahhabism and takfiri ideology, its version of Islam.
Iraqi nationalism and secularism
Another Saudi area of investment in Iraq is the secularity and pan-Arabism. The target of the new campaign are some Shiite factions with pan-Arab values that open the door for the Saudis to sway Iraq’s pol ...
Wahhabism which has its roots in Saudi Arabia and is backed by its rulers. The radical ideology has been subject to harsh criticism.
Ethnic divide deepens in Sri Lanka
In the aftermath of the deadly blasts in Sri Lanka, Muslim groups say they have received dozens of complaints from across the isla ...
Wahhabism, an exceptionally-intolerant ideology, is accused of exercising radically-discriminatory policies against its Shia minority. In early 2016, it notoriously executed the country’s leading Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
The kingdom’s Shia-populated Eastern Province is under ti ...
Wahhabism. In addition, the Saudis want to retaliate on Ankara for its stingy pursuit of the case of the killing of the prominent Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi who was killed by a hit squad at Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October. Khashoggi was a vocal critic of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bi ...
Wahhabism, an extremist ideology preached by Saudi clerics. The extremist ideology promoted by Riyadh has put Saudi Arabia and Iran on the opposing sides of various conflicts across the Middle East.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which is mired in an ongoing five-year conflict against its ...
Wahhabism.
Israeli regime also plays its role. In 2017, Israel Aerospace Industries company signed a $2 billion deal to supply the Indian army and navy with missile systems. The Independent newspaper in a report in mid-2018 said that Tel Aviv had a hand in the Pakistani-Indian tensions as it provok ...
Wahhabism — the official state religion of Saudi Arabia, based on a puritanical and widely rejected interpretation of Islam — sees the preservation of historic and religious sites as tantamount to idolatry. The Wahhabi establishment in Saudi Arabia has not even spared the Kingdom’s ...
Wahhabism and simultaneously compete with the Shiite Islam discourse.
But what did cause the rise of the Salafi sub-discourse of Sahwa and also the rise of internal conflict of Salafi sub-discourses with the mother discourse of Wahhabism?
Grounds given rise and growth to Sahwa?
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Wahhabism vs Yemeni Ansarullah-led Shiite, have been intensifying the rivalry in the Red region over the past years.
3. International powers’ level: Such powers as Europe, the US, China, and Russia each have their interests in the region. Meanwhile, China and Europe, to feed their ...