Saddam Hussein

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  • Imam Khomeini 2024-10-04 22:04

    The day on which Imam Khomeini moved to France from Iraq

    On 4 November 1964, the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini better known as Imam Khomeini was secretly taken to Ankara and then to Bursa, Turkey. Almost a year later on 5 September 1965, he moved to the holy Iraqi city of Najaf and stayed there until Saddam Hussein pressured him to leave the country on 6 October 1978. He was exiled again by the pressure of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Neauphle-le-Château, Paris.

  • UN Security Council Resolution 598 ended the Iran-Iraq war 2024-09-23 22:10

    By Abbas Akhoundi, former transport minister

    Adjusting implementation arrangements of Resolution 598 and the implementation of the 1975 Treaty

    TEHRAN – Iraq's long-imposed war against Iran ended in 1988 with the adoption of Resolution 598 with terrible human costs and destruction.

  • Iraq's Saddam Hussein started war on Iran on Sept. 22, 1988 2024-09-21 15:51

    The day Saddam Hussein initiated war on Iran

    TEHRAN - On September 22, 1980, months after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the army of the Iraqi Ba’athist regime led by Saddam Hussein invaded the Iranian border towns in the southwestern province of Khuzestan and launched a massive aerial bombardment of Iran, igniting an eight-year conflict with Iranians.

  • MEK female militants 2024/07/26

    The Eternal Illusion

    TEHRAN - The summer of 1988 witnessed a dramatic clash between Iran and the Mujahedin-e Khalq (aka MEK, MKO, PMOI) terrorist group. In the wake of an eight-year war with Iraq, Iran faced a renewed threat on its western borders.

  • diver 2024-07-08 23:07

    Iranian court examines U.S. role in 1980s diver massacre

    TEHRAN – An Iranian court has initiated legal proceedings against the United States for its role in the massacre of 42 Iranian divers during the Iran-Iraq War. 

  • Maryam Rajavi talks to ex-Secretary of State Pompeo 2023-08-04 00:39

    MKO ringleader Maryam Rajavi banned to enter Albania

    TEHRAN - Albania’s Special Court on Corruption and Organized Crime has ordered state authorities to prevent Maryam Rajavi, the MKO ringleader, from entering the country.

  • Iravani 2023-07-12 18:13

    West should be held accountable for aiding Saddam against Iran in 1980s: envoy

    TEHRAN- Amir Saeed Iravani, the Permanent Representative of Iran to the UN, on Tuesday slammed several Western nations for aiding and abetting the former Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and demanded that they take responsibility for their actions.

  • German FM Annalena Baerbock 2023-03-08 13:50

    German FM should apologize for her country’s past shameful record: Iran 

    TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday reacted angrily to anti-Iran remarks by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, saying it was expected that the German foreign minister would have apologized for the “shameful performance” of the previous German government toward the Iranian and Iraqi nations.

  • Protests in front of the German embassy in Tehran 2022-11-01 21:56

    War veterans gather in front of German embassy in Tehran

    TEHRAN – A number of people and disabled war veterans held a protest rally on Tuesday morning in front of the German embassy in Tehran to show their disgust of Berlin’s interference in Iran’s internal affairs coupled with its role in provoking unrest in the Islamic Republic.

  • Iran's human rights chief 2022-02-19 21:42

    Iran warns support for MKO will backfire on Europeans

    TEHRAN - A senior Iranian human rights official on Friday warned Europe that its support for the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) will backfire on them just like the Daesh terrorist group.

  • Yemen's ambassador to Iran 2021-12-22 21:05

    Yemeni envoy says Irloo’s death is credible evidence of Saudi war against Yemenis

    TEHRAN – Yemeni ambassador to Tehran Ibrahim Mohammad Mohammad al-Deilami has called the late Iranian ambassador to Sana’a Hassan Irloo a “real man” and a “divine Mujahid”, using an Arabic word for him for his utmost efforts in helping the war-stricken people of Yemen.

  • 11 Sacred Defense elements, properties approved as national heritage 2021-09-29 20:00

    11 Sacred Defense elements, properties approved as national heritage

    TEHRAN – A selection of eleven elements and properties involving the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, which is called Sacred Defense in the Islamic Republic, have recently been added to the national heritage list.