Iranian Speaker:

Reliance on Foreign Powers Source of Shame for Regional Rulers

Rasa - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani underlined the regional countries' rich reserves of oil and gas, and said their rulers' dependence and reliance on the foreign states is shameful.

News ID: 428017

Date: 09 March 2017 - 23:35

RNA - Big powers plunder assets of the regional countries with hollow promises of ensuring their security when they need them, Larijani said, addressing a ceremony in the Northern province of Semnan.

Blasting the rulers of certain regional states for their reliance on the US and Britain despite having huge resources of oil and gas, he said that relaying on foreign powers is a source of shame for them.

In relevant remarks last week, Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezayee said his country is a friend of the Arab nations, and its problems with few Arab states find their roots in the views and policies of their rulers, and not the people.

"We don’t have any problem with the Arabs, but the problem lies with the arrogant rulers who are servants of Israel," Rezayee wrote on his twitter page last Saturday.

"People in Saudi Arabia and the UAE are thirsty for democracy," he added.

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