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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on Iranian officials to treat those suspected of involvement in the recent riots over gasoline price hikes with “Islamic compassion.”

The 16th Iraq-Cast and Horizons Specialist Conference on Middle East Issues attended by Hossein Kanaani Moghaddam and Jafar Qadbashi on Wednesday, December 13, 2010 at the Palestinian Defense Forces.

Malaysia has opened an “Embassy to Palestine” in Jordan, after Israeli authorities purportedly refused to grant officials from the Southeast Asian country access to the seat of Palestinian Authority in the central occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.

Israel’s attorney general has officially submitted his indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Knesset (parliament), laying out a sweeping case in which an estimated 333 witnesses, including wealthy friends and former aides, could be called to testify.

The resistance movement Hamas has reiterated that the Palestinian people have an inalienable “right” to defend their land against the Israeli occupation through all “legitimate means,” particularly “the armed struggle.”

For the first time pro-Palestinian groups from across Europe gathered in front of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to demand prosecution of crimes committed by the Israeli regime.

A senior Palestinian figure has slammed a newly-announced Israeli settlement plan in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) as being a result of Washington's recent decision to recognize Israeli settlements in the occupied territory.

Thousands of Israeli protesters have held demonstrations in Tel Aviv to demand Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's resignation over his corruption charges.

An Israel warplane has launched an airstrike against a position of the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas in the northern parts of the besieged Gaza strip, hours after Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager during a protest rally in the coastal enclave.

A Palestinian teenage boy has been killed after Israeli forces attacked anti-occupation protests taking place in the besieged Gaza Strip.

An Indian diplomat has sparked fury after calling for the adoption of an “Israeli model” in New Delhi-administered Kashmir by building settlements in the Muslim-majority region.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei lauded the vigilance of the Iranian nation in face of plots organized by enemies.

The Israeli military has conducted fresh air strikes on the Gaza Strip after Palestinians in the blockaded enclave and the occupied West Bank marked a “day of rage” in protest against the US’s contentious declaration of support for the regime’s land grab policy.

Yemen has revealed information about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the 1977 assassination of a former popular Yemeni president, who was uneasy with Riyadh’s interference in Yemen’s affairs.

The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has dismissed the condition promoted by the United States as a prerequisite for the formation of a new administration in Lebanon, amid nationwide anti-government demonstrations that have led to the resignation of prime minister Saad al-Hariri.

Omar Shakir, a senior Human Rights Watch official recently expelled from Israel over his alleged support for promoting boycotts of the regime, has lashed out at Tel Aviv for attacking rights defenders.

"What is going on in the region, especially in Iraq and Lebanon, is an attempt to change the balance of power and weaken the axis of resistance," said Ibrahim Motaghi, a university professor and political analyst with reference to the events in Iraq and Lebanon.

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has lambasted the regular desecration of the Ibrahimi Mosque and the al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli settlers as “a practice targeting the Palestinian presence.”

Senior officials from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party have reportedly been working behind the scenes to bring him down following his indictment on corruption charges.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz says a project aimed at connecting the occupied territories with the Persian Gulf region by rail is well underway, in the latest significant sign of warming ties between a number of countries in the strategic area and the Tel Aviv regime after years of clandestine relations.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran has successfully pushed back its enemies in the military, political, and security warfare being waged against the nation.

Eight more Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military renews its air raids against the besieged coastal enclave for a second day, prompting retaliatory rocket fire into the occupied territories.

Israel has killed a senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip, sparking a barrage of retaliatory rocket fire from the besieged enclave into the occupied territories.

The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says Americans are exploiting the ongoing mass protests in the Arab country to fulfill their own interests and advance their agenda, stressing that Washington has prevented Lebanon from standing on its feet.