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An English-language website, known as Alalam News, was launched on August 15, 2006. [1]According to the Columbia Journalism Review, the channel's mission is to "help Iran emerge as the region's top power" by exploting Arab anger toward U.S. foreign policy, emphasizing Arabs and Iranians common Islamic faith, and capitalizing on the rift between Arabs and their governments.
Press TV (stylised as PRESSTV) is an Iranian state-owned news media organisation that broadcasts in the English and French languages owned by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). The 24-hour channel, which has headquarters in Tehran, was launched on 8 July 2007 and was intended to compete with western English language services.
Most foreign governments and the English-speaking mass media tend to use the term Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRG) or simply the Revolutionary Guards. [38] In the US media, the force is frequently referred to interchangeably as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC ).
In a commentary on the Basmala in his Tafsir al-Tabari, al-Tabari writes: "The Messenger of Allah (the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said that Jesus was handed by his mother Mary over to a school in order that he might be taught. [The teacher] said to him: 'Write "Bism (In the name of)".' And Jesus said to him: 'What is "Bism"?'
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The work deals with the biographical evaluation (ʿilm al-rijāl) of a wide variety of early Muslim figures.Though most of these figures are early Shi'ite hadith transmitters, it also covers other contemporaries of the Shi'ite Imams, as well as a number of people who were not considered to be particularly reliable or praiseworthy. [13]
Pilgrims circumambulating the Kaaba in Mecca. The Umrah (Arabic: عُمْرَة, lit. 'to visit a populated place') is an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city for Muslims, located in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia.
Ali Hosseini Khamenei [4] [a] (Persian: علی حسینی خامنهای; born 19 April 1939) [11] [12] is an Iranian cleric and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989.