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 & ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said US exit from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was a “grave mistake” which creates the risk of a renewal of the nuclear arms race. “We consider the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty, as a result of which it has ceased to operate, a serious ...