Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem expressed hopes for a speedy cabinet formation in Lebanon, recalling the party’s stance a year ago when the S.G. Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah rejected the government resignation. Sheikh Qassem added that after one year all the parties are resorting again to the same solutions, ...
The Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday stressed, via Twitter, that insulting 1.9B Muslims—& their sanctities—for the abhorrent crimes of such extremists is an opportunistic abuse of freedom of speech. It only fuels extremism. Muslims are the primary victims of the “cult of hatred”—empowered by colonial regimes & ...