TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – A top official of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, said the movement believes that "armed struggle" is still the only feasible means to confront the “Zionist enemy”. - World news - The announcement was made by Naseem Yassin in a Sunday event during which the movement announced that it was canceling a ceremony planned to mark its 33rd establishment...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Russia censured the illegal presence of US troops in Syria, saying the deployment of the American forces there is meant to hinder the restoration of unity in the Arab country. - World news - The 'illegal armed presence' of the US in Syria is encouraging separatism and preventing the restoration of unity, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said while addressing...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Protesters faced off against heavily armed police in Barcelona, Spain, to resist ongoing evictions as pandemic pushes many vulnerable residents to the brink of homelessness. - World news - Social media footage captures the Catalan police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, being confronted by scores of anti-eviction protesters.One video purportedly shows several squads of Mossos...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Around 200 pro-Trump demonstrators, some of them openly carrying guns, gathered outside the Oregon state capital building in Salem to protest the presidential election results Saturday. - World news - The Trump supporters assaulted at least one cameraman and pepper-sprayed a woman, while police struggled to contain the rally, the Portland Tribune reported. They were met...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Clashes erupted between Black Lives Matter activists and armed pro-Trump locals during a vigil on Monday night after Texas Rangers charged Wolfe City police officer Shaun Lucas with murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. - World news - Jonathan Price, 31, was tasered and then shot to death on Saturday while trying to break up an altercation at a...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – A black-clad militia group, called NFAC, assembled in Lafayette, Louisiana to protest police violence amid growing racial tensions in the United States. - World news - Several hundred black-clad NFAC members, many of them carrying assault rifles, paraded through Lafayette on Saturday. The column included people wearing body armor and other tactical gear, RT...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – The Iranian Armed Forces General Staff said the experience of fighting an imposed war in the 1980s have strengthened the country’s defense power and would facilitate dissolution of the Zionist regime. - Politics news - In a statement released on Saturday to commemorate the Sacred Defense Week, which marks the anniversary of the onset of an Iraqi imposed war on...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – The deputy head of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah said normalization with Israel has no benefit for the Palestinians and only serves the regime’s interests, describing armed resistance as the sole way to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation. - World news - Sheikh Naim Qassem made the remarks in a virtual address to a summit held in the holy Iranian...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Hundreds of protesters from rival groups descended on Louisville, Kentucky, with armed pro-police activists facing off with anti-racism protesters. - World news - As Kentucky Derby Day finally arrived in Louisville, hundreds of armed militia members marched through the city’s downtown to confront Black Lives Matter supporters who have been demonstrating for 101...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said at least 20,000 people infected with the novel coronavirus have been admitted to military hospitals across the country so far. - Society/Culture news - Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the top Iranian commander said hospitals run by the Armed Forces have accepted some 20,000...