A day to oppose global arrogance, national struggle against aggressive powers

In 1979, a group of Iranian university students took over the US embassy, which they maintained had turned into a center of espionage aimed at overthrowing the Islamic Republic in Iran following the country’s Islamic Revolution earlier in 1979. Imam Khomeini stressed, “I have said it times and again that takeover of the US embassy by Muslim youth and students was a natural reaction to the harm being done to our people by America.”

Leader says 1953 coup, not embassy takeover, ‘starting point’ in US-Iran row

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has dismissed as a “lie” the US assertion that the 1979 takeover of their embassy in Tehran is what set off the ongoing dispute between Iran and the United States, saying the "starting point" of the row goes back to the CIA-orchestrated coup of 1953.

Iranians rally nationwide to denounce terrorist attack in Shiraz

Protesters rallied across Iran, including in the capital Tehran, following Friday prayers. They chanted slogans and held banners calling for bringing those responsible to justice.

Leader says riots enemy plot devised in ‘clumsy’ reaction to nation’s progress

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the recent scattered riots in several Iranian cities have been devised by enemies as a “clumsy,” “foolish” and “passive” reaction to the Iranian nation’s great moves and innovative progress.

Islamophobic hate crimes spike in UK amid rise of far-right

Britain has seen a rise in Islamophobic hate crimes against the backdrop of a tangible hike in the number of far-right politicians “in government,” says the UK-based research and advisory group Cordoba Foundation.

Ayatollah Khamenei says violent riots in Iran 'planned by US and Zionist regime'

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has severely censured the unrest that erupted in some parts of Iran following the death of a young woman, stating that the deadly riots were orchestrated in advance by the United States and the Israeli regime.

European states accused of Islamophobia, suppressing Muslim civil society

Iranians rally to decry foreign-backed riots, desecration of sanctities

Iranians have held rallies across the country to deplore the acts of vandalism and desecration of Islamic sanctities by foreign-backed rioters in the past few days, following the death of a young Iranian woman in a hospital days after collapsing at a police station in the capital Tehran.