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http://ift.tt/2r2cl99 Iranians walk near a billboard bearing portraits of late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R) and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on June 8, 2017 one day after twin attacks in the capital. Iran said that the five Iranians who killed 17 people in twin attacks in Tehran were Islamic State group members who had been to its strongholds in Iraq and Syria. The attacks on June 7 at Tehran's parliament complex and the shrine of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini wounded more than 50 people and were the first claimed by IS in Iran./ AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE The attacks in Tehran this week will only “reinforce hatred” for the United States and Saudi Arabia, Iran’s supreme leader said on Friday at a funeral for those killed. “Such acts will have no other result than to reinforce hatred for the US government and its agents in the region, like the Saudi (government),” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in a message of condolence to the fam...

http://ift.tt/2qdeBN4 Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, APC National Publicity Secretary Publicity Secretaries of state chapters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been advised not to see the party’s critics as enemies. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, gave the advice at the opening of a two-day External Communication and Social Media Workshop organised for them in Abuja on Friday. The workshop was organised by the party, in collaboration with the International Republican Institute (IRI), a non-profit and non-partisan organisation which advocates freedom and democracy worldwide. “As a party that was in the opposition, we went round the country asking people to vote for us and made promises; people will now hold us to account for those promises. “They will recall that we were a party that was in opposition and that there were things we said as opposition that presumed that we were operating on high moral grounds. “Now that we are in governm...