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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman slammed a Saudi-led aerial attack on a wedding ceremony in Yemen’s Dhamar province that killed dozens of civilians on Wednesday.

“The attacks by foreign military forces on Yemen’s residential areas and civilian targets have slaughtered thousands of the Muslim country’s defenseless people so far, and have had no results for the invading forces but destruction and killing of innocent Yemeni people,” Marziyeh Afkham said on Thursday.

The spokeswoman also called on the United Nations and the influential countries in the Yemeni crisis to ramp up efforts for bringing an immediate end to the Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen.

She further stressed the necessity for plans and measures to protect the lives of Yemeni civilians, particularly women and children.

On Wednesday, Saudi warplanes targeted a wedding in the Yemeni town of Sanban in Dhamar province, 100km south of the capital Sana’a, killing at least 51 civilians.

The raid, which was the second airstrike on a wedding party in Yemen in just over a week, hit a house where dozens of people were celebrating on Wednesday evening.

Al Masirah television said on Twitter that the wedding was hit by “aggression warplanes”.

Back in September, a Saudi-led coalition strike killed at least 131 civilians at a wedding near the Red Sea city of al-Mokha, which the UN said may have been the deadliest hit since March.

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for months.

On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies began to launch deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

More than 4000 people, many of them children and women, have been killed in the aggression against the Arab country so far.

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According to a local source in Kirkuk province, the ISIS organization kidnapped 200 people southwest of the province on charges of cooperation with the security forces.

“Elements of the ISIS organization abducted, today, 200 people in the villages of the al-Halawat belonging to the district al-Zab southwest of Kirkuk,” the source said.

The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The abduction process of those people was carried out on charges of passing information on the whereabouts of ISIS leaders to the Peshmerga, al-Hashed al-Sha’bi and the security authorities.”

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Country’s attorney-general has told reporters all government authorities should address the rights of families of Mina incident victims.

Hojjatoleslam Ebrahim Raeisi who was speaking to the press after a session specially met to examine the legal aspects of the Mina incident on Wednesday, said that several meetings had collected the expert advice and comments of judges of country’s Supreme Court and international law experts as well on the Mina incident; “today’s session brought together engaged authorities, inter alia, presidential deputy for legal affairs, foreign ministry, Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, and other responsible bodies; foreign ministry is definitely the pioneer of international addressing of the issue; however, Saudi government should know that the establishment of a truth-finding committee has our support yet, and we believe that it is a necessity,” Raeisi told reporters.

“The footages recorded from Mina incident should be given to Iran and other countries whose Hajj pilgrims have been killed to rule out the possibility that even a tinge of evidence remains outside of the investigations; the truth-finding committee would be of great help on this issue; Saudis on the other hand should understand that the passing of the time will add to our resolve to address Mina incident, and that it would not be forgotten any time soon,” he emphasized.

“During the first two or three days of the incident, I sent a letter to Saudi attorney-general demanding that they investigate all aspects of the issue, and file lawsuits against possible perpetrators, albeit with little hope that Saudi officials have the necessary will to do that,” said the attorney-general, “we would sue Saudi government in international criminal courts should Saudis failed to effectively address the issue of paying recompenses for the families of the victims and turn a blind eye to demands that the perpetrators be tried,” he added.

“The UN has a duty to bring the issue of security and safety of Hajj pilgrims to its Security Council agenda; we examined similar cases where the UN had in the past established truth-finding committee; we also examined possible roles to be played by ICC (International Criminal Court) and ICJ (International Court of Justice); the internaitola community is accountable in Mina incident,” Raeisi told reporters, highlighting the role of foreign ministry as the pioneer body in addressing the issue.

“We expect to see that Saudi Arabia seriously addresses the issue and officially communicates the results of probable trial and hearing sessions; however, with few days since the incident, no indication would signal to us that Saudi Arabian officials actually have that seriousness we expected,” he lamented.

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency -ABNA- Iran boycotted the forthcoming Frankfurt book fair because organizers have invited Salman Rushdie, one of the most hated figures in the Islamic world, to deliver his speech at the opening press conference.

In response to this anti-Islamic act, Iran’s Ministry for Culture and Islamic Guidance released a statement and called on other Muslim nations to join the boycott.

“Frankfurt International Book Fair under the pretext of freedom of speech, invited one of the most hated figures in the Islamic world, Salman Rushdie, to make a speech at the event and to present his last book,” the statement said.

“It is unfortunate that the organizers of this event are serving anti-Islamic elements and Zionists and try to hurt the feelings of Muslims all over the world,” the statement added.

“Iran’s Ministry for Culture and Islamic Guidance on behalf of the great nation that has always been respectful toward other religions and cultures, and despite its readiness and spending lots of money, condemns this act and refuses to take part in this event. We also call on other Islamic countries to take a strong stance against the issue,” the statement said at the end.

Rushdie, an apostate Muslim and British citizen who lives in the US, was made subject of a 1988 fatwa (religious edict) that called for his killing after his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, was published. The Islamic republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued the order after he and many others in the Muslim world said Rushdie had depicted Muslim prophet Muhammad irreverently.

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Turkish media reported that the security forces in the state of Gaziantep on the border with Syria has been able to capture coined money issued by ISIS in Turkey.

Turkish media quoted security sources in Gaziantep as saying, “anti-terrorism teams launched security operation on Safjala neighbourhood and arrested six suspects of belonging to ISIS.

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