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Hizbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on the tenth night of Muharam commemorating Ashura during the central council held in Sayyed Ashuhada (pbuh) Complex in Haret Hreik on November 3, 2014 :: English | جريدة السفير
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Neither Syria nor Iran demands anything from anyone in the world in exchange for facilitating and holding the presidential elections. Some have tried to link the Lebanese presidential file with the Iranian nuclear talks. These do not know anything about the Iranian nuclear talks. In fact, Iran refuses to connect its nuclear file with any other file – neither the presidency in Lebanon, Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, nor Azerbaijan. It focuses its discussion and dialogue on this issue from the position of power and wisdom, and it refuses to be blackmailed at the expense of its friends, allies, and the peoples in the region to facilitate its nuclear file. So this is also settled.
It remains that you solve your problems. You have a problem with the regional axis you are allies with. You usually say that you don’t have any problem with such and such or so and so but for example you say that our brethrens in Saudi Arabia do not approve on him. Well then try to address this dilemma.

Turkey’s religious top body marks holy month for Alevis

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The head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has sent a letter to the Alevi community for the holy month of Muharram, as well as Ashura and Karbala, saying all Muslims should unit under common values in order to avoid new Karbalas, regardless of sectarian differences.

“No matter their sect, temperament, language, culture and region, all Muslims around the world need to develop a common language, culture, thought and feelings togetherness in order to avoid new Karbalas,” said Mehmet Görmez in his letter to Alevi religious leaders (dedes), as well as Bektaşi and Caferi opinion leaders and NGOs working on the topic.

Efforts to build a wall of separation between Sunnis and Alevis by focusing on Karbala would destroy Islamic brotherhood and unity, Görmez said, adding that a believer in Islam should stand against felons wherever and whenever.

In the Battle of Karbala of 680 A.D., the supporters and relatives of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Husayn ibn Ali, were all killed by the forces of Yazid I, the Sunni Umayyad caliph, who Husayn refused to recognize as caliph. The dead are regarded as martyrs by Muslims, and the battle has a central place in Alevi and Shiite history and tradition.

Görmez will host a Muharram feast on Nov. 3 as part of the “Ashura Day and Commemorating of the Karbala Martyrs” event, while Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced that he will attend the Hacıbektaş Veli Culture Association’s Ashura event on Nov. 8, in the Hacıbektaş district of the Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir.
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#Bahrain upholds draconian jail terms for 17 activists
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Bahraini riot police attack protesters during an anti-regime demo heading to “Pearl Square” after a religious procession marking Ashura on November 15, 2013 in the village of Daih, west of the capital Manama. (Photo: AFP - Mohammed al-Shaikh)

A Bahrain appeals court has upheld jail terms of up to 15 years for 17 protest activists accused of attacks on police in the unrest-hit country, a judicial source said Tuesday. The Manama court, which delivered the verdicts on (...)

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Iraqi forces need “massive” #Human_Rights training: UN official
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Iraqi security forces patrol as Shia worshippers head to the holy shrine of Imam Abbas to attend Ashura celebrations in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, on November 12, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ali al-Saadi)

#Iraq's security forces require “massive amounts of re-training” in human rights to better conduct operations and combat the country’s deadliest violence since 2008, the UN’s new envoy to Baghdad said. Nickolay Mladenov, UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s special (...)

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Shrines in #Iraq : ’Mako’ Imam, ’Mako’ #Najaf
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Muslims run between the #Imam_Hussein (background) and Imam Abbas shrines as part of the ritual ceremony of Ashura in #Karbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, during the commemoration of Ashura, on November 14, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ali al-Saadi) Muslims run between the Imam Hussein (background) and Imam Abbas shrines as part of the ritual ceremony of Ashura in Karbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, during the commemoration of Ashura, on (...)

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#Ashura Rituals and #amal Oaths on #Lebanese_University Campus
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The circular has not been enforced. At the Faculty of Information, the place is wrapped in black for Ashura, while slogans for the religious occasion are everywhere and recordings mourning Hussein can be heard in every corner. (Photo: Archive - Alia Haju) The circular has not been enforced. At the Faculty of Information, the place is wrapped in black for Ashura, while slogans for the religious occasion are everywhere and recordings mourning Hussein can (...)

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#Iraq attacks target #Ashura commemorations, killing dozens
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An Iraqi looks at damages on the site of a car bomb attack on November 14, 2013 in the northern city of Kirkuk. (Photo: AFP - Marwan Ibrahim)

Updated at 2:50pm: Attacks against Shia worshipers, including a suicide bombing that ripped through a religious procession, killed 41 people in Iraq Thursday despite massive security deployed for one of the holiest days of their faith. The bloodshed came as a flood of worshipers, including tens of thousands of foreign (...)

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Nasrallah: #Hezbollah will stay in #syria as long as necessary
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The head of Hezbollah #Hassan_Nasrallah is flanked by a security guard as he speaks during a massive commemoration of the Shia holiday Ashura in southern Beirut on November 14, 2013. (Photo: AFP)

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday his group, which has been fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria’s civil war, would stay in Syria for as long as necessary. "We have said on several occasions that the presence of our soldiers on (...)

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Apparition en public de Hassan Nasrallah, Secrétaire Général du Hezbollah :
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Nasrallah was seen walking through a throng of people in a southern Shia stronghold in Beirut on Tuesday before he addressed a crowd marking the religious festival of Ashoura.