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US Anti-Iran Policies to Intensify Muslim Nations’ Hatred

Rasa - Head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi blasted the US for supporting the terrorist groups, and said support for terrorist groups and imposing travel ban on Muslims are the two sides of the same coin.

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Date: 28 June 2017 - 23:36

RNA - “Anti-Islamism policies of the US government will provoke Muslim nations’ hatred of the US,” Boroujerdi said.

He reiterated that while the US is busy propagating extremism in the Muslim world, it is at the same time restricting entry of Muslim countries’ nationals, thus following contradictory policy; such policies will bring nothing for Americans.

While referring to the US Supreme Court's verdict on Trump's immigration order and overall confirmation of the verdict, with a few exceptions on the entry of Muslims from several countries to the US, Boroujerdi said the Americans have until today followed contradictory policy on the world of Islam and dealing with Muslims up to last years.

“Trump’s immigration order will not keep the US immune of its nurtured terrorists,” he added.

In relevant remarks on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined that Washington’s move to exert travel bans on the Muslims in a bid to block their entry to the US will not help that country to overcome its security problems and become a safer place.

“A bigoted ban on Muslims will not keep US safer. Instead of policies empowering extremists, US should join the real fight against them,” Zarif wrote on his Twitter page.

In December 2015, after a deadly terrorist attack in Paris which was claimed by the ISIL terrorist group, then-candidate Trump called for "a total and complete ban on Muslims entering the US.

When Trump signed an executive order on January 27 to ban the entry of citizens from Yemen, Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan and Libya, including permanent US residents, to the US, the move has been seen as an implementation of his campaign promise.

But when challenged in courts on grounds of religious discrimination, the administration denied that the executive order is faith-based.

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