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Yemeni Army Hits Saudi Military Bases in Najran and Jizan

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency -ABNA- Yemeni Army artillery unit and Popular Committees have targeted two Saudi military bases in Najran and Jizan, leading to killing and wounding numbers of Saudi soldiers, al-Masirah TV network reported moments ago.

Since recent days Ansarullah fighters have launched several missile attacks on some military bases in southern of Saudi Arabia and killed dozens of Saudi border guards.

Yemen has been witnessing ceaseless attacks by Saudi Arabia since March 26. The military strikes are supposedly meant to undermine the Ansarullah movement and bring fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, back to power.

The Saudi aggression has reportedly claimed the lives of more than 7,100 people and injured nearly 14,000 others. The strikes have also taken a heavy toll on the impoverished country’s facilities and infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, schools, and factories.

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Iran ex-envoy may have been kidnapped: His brother

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Iran’s former Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi, who has been missing since a crush during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, may have been kidnapped, his brother said.

Ahmad Roknabadi referred to the 2013 twin bombings outside the Iranian Embassy in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, saying that Saudi citizens and people linked to Daesh terrorist group were behind the explosions.

“So all these [incidents] have made us very worried that this… happening in Saudi Arabia may be related to all those [that] happened before to him, and maybe he has been kidnapped in Saudi Arabia,” Roknabadi said, speaking about his brother.

More than two dozen people, including Iran’s cultural attaché to Beirut, were killed and at least 150 others injured in November 2013 when two explosions struck near the Iranian Embassy in southern Beirut.

Following the incident, the so-called Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the bombings. The group’s Saudi leader, Majid al-Majid, was arrested in early January 2014 and died days later from poor health in a Lebanese jail. Majid was a high-profile terrorist also wanted by the US and some other countries.

Elsewhere in the interview, Roknabadi held Saudi officials accountable for the tragic incident in Mina.

Also on Thursday, a senior Iranian diplomat said Tehran is following up on the fate of the former Iranian ambassador through international bodies.

On the international level, the case is being pursued through the United Nations (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said.

Elsewhere in the interview, Roknabadi held Saudi officials accountable for the tragic incident in Mina.

Also on Thursday, a senior Iranian diplomat said Tehran is following up on the fate of the former Iranian ambassador through international bodies.

On the international level, the case is being pursued through the United Nations (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told IRNA.

Saudi Arabia claims nearly 770 people were killed in the September 24 crush in Mina, but officials at Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization say about 4,700 people, including 464 Iranian pilgrims, lost their lives in the incident.

Some 28 Iranians are still missing.

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French city to introduce Islam classes in its schools next year

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Schools in Alsace-Moselle, a region in the eastern part of France, will reportedly introduce Islam as an option in theology class starting from the 2016 school year.

The French website Yabiladi cited Le Figaro as saying that Islam will be offered as an optional course in the schools of the Alsace-Moselle region for all students regardless of their religions.

“Catholic and Protestant religious authorities are currently working on writing a program that would be a cultural and religious awakening in all the major monotheistic religions, and for students who wish to take the course, irrespective of their religion,” the same source said. A Muslim expert also seems to be involved in the preparation of this program for the Islamic component.

The same source said that the courses will start from the next school year in 2016 and will be offered initially to high schools, which have an important number of Muslim students.

Trained imams who have honorable academic achievements will teach the Islam lessons.

The idea began after the deadly attacks in Paris last January. Following the attack, religious Catholics, Protestants and Jews of Alsace-Moselle decided to mobilize in order to integrate the teaching of Islam in schools in accordance with the Concordat of 1801, which recognizes and organizes Catholic, Protestant Lutheran, reformed and Jewish.

This initiative is strongly encouraged by the authorities as well as by the Muslim community.

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Iran to Pursue Fate of Missing Pilgrims in Mina Incident through ICRC

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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian reaffirmed Tehran’s resolve to follow up on the fate of the Iranian pilgrims still missing after recent deadly crush in Mina, Saudi Arabia, through international bodies.

A September 24 crush in Mina, which happened when pilgrims from around the world were performing the Hajj rites, killed about 7500 Hajj pilgrims, including 464 Iranians. Several Iranian pilgrims, including the country’s former ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi, are still unaccounted for after the deadly crush.

Amir Abdollahian on Thursday stressed that the foreign ministry will seriously pursue the fate of these pilgrims.

Referring to the missing diplomat, Amir Abdollahian noted that during the recent negotiations between Iranian Hajj officials and Saudi authorities in Jeddah, the issue of Roknabadi’s fate was raised once again.

The issue was also reminded to Saudi envoy in Tehran for the umpteenth time, he said, adding that the foreign ministry is also pursuing the issue internationally through the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

“Saudi Arabia is responsible for the Mina tragedy, and should accept all the consequences, including legal ones,” Amir Abdollahian added.

Earlier on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had underlined that identifying the culprits, taking measures to restore the victims’ rights, and planning for appropriate moves to prevent the recurrence of such tragedies in Hajj pilgrimage in the future are on the foreign ministry’s agenda.
Saudi authorities have come under fire for their inability to ensure the safety of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who converge on Mecca every year.

The September 24 tragedy came nearly two weeks after tens of Hajj pilgrims were killed in another tragic incident in Mecca.

On September 11, a massive construction crane crashed into Mecca’s Grand Mosque in stormy weather, killing at least 107 people, including 11 Iranians, and injuring 201 others.

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ISIS destroys houses of Shiite Kurds in Nineveh, Iraq

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Militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) blew up Wednesday a number of houses belonging to displaced Kurdish families in a Shiite village east of Mosul city in northern Iraq, local sources reported.

M.Z. said that ISIS gunmen blew up Wednesday a number of houses belonging to the “Shabak Kurds” (Shiite Kurdish group) in the village Bazwaya east of Mosul.

“At least 13 houses have been bombed by the hardline group,” the source said under the condition of anonymity.

Hundreds of Shiite Kurdish families, known as Shabak Kurds who speak al-Bajlaniya dialect, used to reside some 60 villages in the plain of Nineveh in northern Iraq, before ISIS extremists stormed the province last year.

ISIS extremists have shown hostility towards other different religious groups, including Christians and Jews, describing them as “infidels and crusaders” who deserve death. The group even considers people belonging to other Islamic sects as “apostates”.

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Iranian Civil Defense Force Martyred in Syria

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An Iranian civil defense force member was killed in Syria while rendering advisory services to the Syrian forces in the war on terrorism. 

Martyr Mohsen Fanousi, a member of group 43 of Imam Ali combat engineering and civil defense corps, was killed in Syria on Wednesday. He was from Iran’s Western city of Hamedan.

A member of Iranian Basiji (Volunteer) force and a member of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) were also killed in Aleppo on Wednesday.

Martyr Rouhollah Qorbani, a member of Basij force, and Qadir Sarlak, a member of IRGC’s Mohammad Rasoulollah Corps, were killed in the terrorists’ missile attack as they were on the move on a road in Aleppo province.

Two More Iranians Killed in Aleppo

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Russia sends air defense systems to Syria

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Viktor Bondarev, commander of the Russian Air Force said Thursday that his country has sent air defense systems to Syria to protect its war jets, prevent the possibility of hijacking them and to respond at suitable time to other emergency situations.

“We have taken into consideration all possible threats and sent to Syria not only offense warplanes, launchers and choppers, but also anti-aircraft missile defense systems to use in the extreme scenarios like the possibility of aircraft being hijacked from airbases that are controlled by the Syrian government and targeting our bases, and we have to be ready fro every possibility, Russia Today quoted Bondarev as saying in an interview with the Russian Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Russian air force started on September 30th fighting terrorism in Syria in response to official request from Syria.

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Photos: Ashura ceremony in Jannusan, Bahrain

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Daesh Promoting Ideology in S. Arabia through Selling Children Clothes

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A clothes store in Northern Saudi Arabia is selling T-shirts with ISIL’s logos in a bid to promote the extremist Takfiri ideology.

The Saudi officials were quoted by al-Khalij Online news website as saying that a store in Hail province in Northern Saudi Arabia has been selling clothes with the ISIL logo.

According to the report, the clothes that have been produced for children including mock suicide vests.

Saudi Arabia is the staunch supporter of the ISIL terrorists who are fighting against the Syrian and Iraqi people.

Also on October 5, dozens of Saudi clerics in a statement called for supporting the war against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as well as Iran and Russia, which are backing Syria in its fight against terrorism.

The Saudi clerics’ letter used sectarian terms against the regional quadripartite coalition members and blamed the West for not providing Takfiri militants in Syria with anti-aircraft weapons.

The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which flared in March 2011, has claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people and left over one million injured.

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