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Some Turkish and Iraqi businessmen have been involved in financing the Daesh terrorist group by buying oil from it in the black market, a senior Turkish politician says.

“There is information that 27 Turkish and Iraqi businessmen are directly involved in this trade. Iraq’s central government has taken a number of measures” to prevent it, Russia’s Sputnik news agency quoted Mehmet Ali Ediboğlu, the former deputy of the Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), as saying on Monday.

Ediboğlu added that the businessmen include people close to Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

Back in 2014, David Cohen, the then US Treasury under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said middlemen from Turkey and the KRG purchased oil from Daesh terrorists.

According to Ediboğlu, Daesh’s main source of income is the sale of oil extracted from the fields it has captured since last year. Reports say the Takfiris control nearly a dozen oil fields in northern Iraq as well as Syria’s Raqqa province.

The oil is transferred to the Mediterranean Sea from Turkey and then transported to the other parts of the world, the former Turkish lawmaker noted.

“There is evidence that the oil revenues amounted to USD 800 million [per year], later this amount increased to 1-2 billion dollars,” he said.

Ediboğlu also stressed that the Turkish government indirectly assists Daesh terrorists by selling weapons to Syria’s militant groups which Ankara deems ‘reasonable’.

According to the politician, these groups are later forced by Daesh to sell their arms to the extremists.

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Ayatollah Safi-Golpaygani expressed his regret over the discord among Muslims and the lack of unity and the alliances between the enemies and some Muslims, saying this is an affront to Islam.

“it is an honour and pleasure that we can work toward Muslim unity by cooperating with Islamic scholars from other countries. this is one of the greatest and noblest goals of Islam,” Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi-Golpaygani said in a meeting with a group of Sunni scholars from India and Mauritania.

His Eminence said that the presence of Muslims alongside one another is a strong barrier against the enemies’ conspiracies, adding that unity among Muslims is a direct order from the Holy Quran: “Hold fast, all together, to God’s cord, and do not be divided [into sects]” [3:103].

The revered source of emulation added that the presence of these Sunni scholars in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a predominantly Shi’a country, and especially in the Shi’a holy city of Qom, is appreciated and is a blessed event.

God-willing, the presence of these great scholars will lead to Islamic community, both Sunnis and Shi’as, to know each other more and be the cause of further unity among them and be a context to show the greatness of Islam to the rest of the world,” he explained.

Ayatollah Safi-Golpaygani expressed his regret over the discord among Muslims and the lack of unity as well as the alliances between the enemies and some Muslims, saying this is an affront to Islam, and added that it is very upsetting and embarrassing that there is discord among Muslims in some parts of the Islamic world while the enemies are united. “Thus, we must maintain our unity so that we can live as Islam and the Quran command us to live,” he stressed.

The renowned teacher in the Islamic Seminary of Qom said that the sedition which exists in the Islamic world is a source of a great concern and has caused great suffering for many Muslims, saying: “But if we act according to God’s words: ‘The faithful are indeed brothers. Therefore, make peace between your brothers and be wary of God, so that you may receive [His] mercy ’ [49:10], certainly we will prevail against them.”

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The terrorist group of ISIS has executed 12 youngsters for trying to escape a training camp in the northwestern Iraqi city of Mosul, local activists reported on Monday.

Media activist Yousef al-Jubouri said that some 12 minors, who were being trained militarily by ISIS east of Mosul, were brutally executed days after their arrest by the group.

“The victims have tried to escape the camp in a bid to avoid carrying out suicide operations on behalf of ISIS,” he said.

The extremist group obliges minors to join its camps in Iraq and Syria, where recruits are being trained on conducting suicide attacks, slaughter and torture.

The source stressed that the boys, who were executed at the hands of ISIS militants in a woodland area near Mosul, consist a small group of the nearly 4000 minors trained by the extremists.

“These youngsters are subjected to the worst kinds of torture during the brutal training,” al-Jubouri said , pointing out “they have been recruited from all regions of Iraq and Syria.”

“In Syria, dozens of minors have been recruited by ISIS in Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Aleppo, where their parents receive funds from the group,” al-Jubouri said, adding that “all the juveniles who were executed in Mosul are from the Arab component.”

In Iraq, the terrorist group took advantage of the tribes of al-Tarabsha and al-Bu Nimr to collect children to be trained in the al-Taqa headquarters of al-Furat district, according to the source. “Those who do not show unique capabilities during the training are being utilized by ISIS as human shields during battles.”

The youngsters are reportedly subject to training sessions of one month and a half, and are then dispersed among the suicide squads and bomb-making workshops.

“The ISIS hardline group is also training hundreds of children aged 9-12 in the al-Furat area of the sub-district of Heet west of Ramadi,” a tribal source in Mosul told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.

The terrorist group of ISIS has allocated several camps in the areas under its control in Mosul and Ramadi in northern Iraq and in the city of Raqqa in northeastern Syria, to train minors dubbed as “Ashbal al-Khilafa” (Cubs of the Caliphate) to carry out “jihadist operations”, according to pro-ISIS media outlets.

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Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates’ Affairs Hassan Qashqavi announced that the nationals seeking to participate in Arbaeen mourning ceremony in Iraq are required to have passports and visas.

Qashqavi pointed to a meeting of a task force to organize pilgrimage of Iranian nationals to the holy city of Karbala on Arbaeen, and said that during the session, all preparations and necessary measures to facilitate large presence of the Iranian nationals in the Arbaeen ceremony were studied.

“…we have to say that attendance in this years’ Arbaeen ceremony (in Iraq) is not possible without obtaining passport and visa,” he noted.

In response to a question about how nationals can get passports and visas, Qashqavi said during the task force’s meeting attended by Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli and the Iraqi ambassador to Tehran, the issue was discussed.

The necessary cooperation will be made by Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaeifar, he added.

Earlier on Monday, Head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi had told Tasnim that some 100 passport gates have been set up in Mehran border crossing in the western province of Ilam and about 50 others have been built on Iraqi soil to facilitate the crossing of pilgrims.

The Arbaeen mourning ceremony is one of the largest religious gatherings in the world.

It marks the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), Imam Hussein (AS).

Each year, pilgrims, mainly from Iraq and Iran, travel long routes on foot to Karbala, where the holy shrine of Imam Hussein (AS) is located.

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency – The Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) Islamic Cultural Center in Switzerland in a statement condemned the move by Saudi Arabia to sentence prominent Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr to death.